The ambition to involve younger people in future planning processes in order to get full participation of all groups in the society requires a deep and well-planned dialogue. Although, participation not always means inclusion. The purpose of this study was to analyze how the younger generation in the society is included in the future work. This is based on a case study of the developmental work in the municipality of Skellefteå. Questions that were answered were how the municipality has made the participation possible? To what extent has the younger generation been involved? How did this group experience their participation? The methodology consisted of mixed methods that include observations, surveys to the session leaders and to the participants in the dialogue and three interviews with two participants and one municipal civil servant. The result showed that the open information didn´t reach the younger generation to the open dialogues although the dialogue design gave good conditions for participation. Also the younger had highrepresentativeness of the dialogue thanks to outreach meetings, but that a greater ambition to get them to the open meetings may lead to greater inclusion in the future work of the municipality.

För andra gången startar nu det kommunala bostadsbolaget i Halmstad (HFAB) upp ett lokalt utvecklingsarbete för att förbättra ett bostadsområde. Med de boendes deltagande vill man skapa tankar kring hur man kan göra stadsdelen Vallås till<img src="https://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" /> en mer attraktiv stadsdel.Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att, ur ett deltagardemokratiskt perspektiv, undersöka hur bred samverkan kring stadsdelsförnyelse fungerar. För att kunna göra detta avser jag att genomföra en kvalitativ processutvärdering. Jag kommer att använda mig av Nils Herttings teorier om deltagardemokratier och analysmodell gällande förhoppningar och risker i den samverkansintensiva politiken.Min uppsats visar att projekt har en deltagardemokratisk grund och att man lyckats få med gräsrötter och ökat den demokratiska kompetensen. Samtligt finns det vissa tendenser på att man främst attraherar redan engagerade medborgare. Vidare<img src="https://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png" /> visar jag att samverkan fungerar väl, det finns mycket delaktighet och engagemang i utvecklingsarbetet och tillit bland deltagarna. Men det finns olika förväntningar bland deltagarna och att man inte har lyckats skapa en enhetlig bild av vad som är syftet med projektet.

When collective action for community is defined as local development or as a struggle for survival different understandings are in focus. Politically, this kind of community action is defined as local development and understood in terms of growth and economics. An economic approach to community action is also emphasised in the EU-programmes that support local development groups and projects. On the other hand local groups describe their activities as a struggle for community and community survival. Inspired by feministic research approaches and with an interest in human aspects and values this study investigates meanings of community action as experienced and expressed by rural inhabitants and activists. The study is based on fieldwork that was carried out in a small rural community in the northern inlands of Sweden: Trehörningsjö. Since the middle of the 1990s, the women in Trehörningsjö have driven collective action to uphold the community. With its point of departure in the community and expanding into the arenas of reserach and politics, the study takes on the form of a reflexive research process in which the researcher's former knowledge and new understandings are made visible and discussed parallel with the interpretations made. The main focus of the study is the activist's demand of voice, visibility and worth. The first chapter presents the local community and provides a background to the study. The chapter includes an account of the reflexive approach that widened the field of research from a local to a translocal study of community action. In chapters two, three, four and five the struggle for community is reflected through fieldwork experiences in Trehörningsjö and other arenas beyond the village. Situated events and instances of collective action such as the fight for the local health care centre, are analysed as symbolic expressions of community values and rural importance. From chapter two and onwards, the study follows the footsteps of the leading female activist in and beyond the community itself; that is, the day-to-day work, meetings, conferences and other places where community action is acted out. The struggle for community is proven to focus on translocal rather than local action. In chapter six the fieldwork experiences - that tell about resistance and a struggle for community values and perspectives - are placed in the wider context of the rural development movement, local development research and governmental rural policy in Sweden. On all these arenas community action tend to be interpreted as local development in line with a growth perspective, rather than as community protests and struggles that expresses other meanings. Chapter seven takes the analyses and discussion further, and relates community struggle to concepts such as civil society and social economy. Anthony Giddens concept of life politics and Alberto Meluccis concept of collective action are used to deepen the analysis on how humane meanings and relation based aspects of community action are made invisible on the political "growht and development" agenda. Community struggle presents a possibility for rural inhabitants to (re)define and reclaim their community and themselves as important and valuable. However, to be able to understand what the concept of community struggle expresses, and demands, it needs to be acknowledged as a form of action that has the potential to challenge established bureaucratic and political defintions, which, in practice, proves to be difficult.