Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship

Staeheli, Lynn A; Attoh, Kafui; Mitchell, Don

doi:10.1080/13562576.2013.780715

Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship

Staeheli, Lynn A; Attoh, Kafui; Mitchell, Don

Authors

Lynn A Staeheli

Kafui Attoh

Don Mitchell

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.

Citation

Staeheli, L. A., Attoh, K., & Mitchell, D. (2013). Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship. Space and Polity, 17(1), 88-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2013.780715

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Apr 1, 2013
Deposit Date	May 16, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Jan 10, 2014
Journal	Space and Polity
Print ISSN	1356-2576
Electronic ISSN	1470-1235
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	17
Issue	1
Pages	88-105
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2013.780715

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This is an electronic version of an article published in Staeheli, Lynn A. and Attoh, Kafui and Mitchell, Don (2013) 'Contested engagements : youth and the politics of citizenship.', Space and polity., 17 (1). pp. 88-105. Space and polity is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1356-2576&volume=17&issue=1&spage=88