Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship

Lynn A. Staeheli; Kafui Attoh; Don Mitchell

doi:10.1080/13562576.2013.780715

Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship

Lynn A. Staeheli, Kafui Attoh, Don Mitchell

Department of Geography and the Environment

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Abstract

In this paper, a framework is presented for exploring how youth perform their citizenship through political engagements. The framework provides a way to explore the agency of youthful citizens as imagined by different agents and the ways that youth understand their performances as citizenship. Using interviews with university students and administrators at six universities in Manchester and Glasgow, a distinction is highlighted between agency and the performance of political acts in the production of citizenship, and the implications of this distinction for the development of autonomous citizens.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	88-105
Number of pages	18
Journal	Space and Polity
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2013.780715
State	Published - Apr 2013

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Geography, Planning and Development
Political Science and International Relations

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