In recent times, globalising processes have disrupted traditional bonds between identity, citizenship and place, affecting how young people today think and feel about themselves as citizens who act, influence and feel they belong within different spatial contexts. This chapter critically reviews research and scholarship to formulate a more geographically-responsive vocabulary of citizenship and shed light on the relationship between citizenship, place and belonging. It argues for a spatial, relational and affective conceptual framework of young people’s citizenship that encompasses belonging as feeling, belonging in the context of others and belonging within places. This approach will provide a more dynamic, expansive notion of citizenship and belonging characterised by flexible social membership (Isin & Turner, Citizenship Studies, 11(1), 5–17, 2007) and spatial affiliations consistent with young people’s lives as citizens today.
History
Chapter number
8
Pagination
165-185
ISBN-13
978-3-319-75216-7
Language
eng
Publication classification
B1 Book chapter
Copyright notice
2018, The Authors
Extent
16
Editor/Contributor(s)
Halse C
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
Cham, Switzerland
Title of book
Interrogating belonging for young people in schools