Language of political socialization: language of resistance

Habashi, Janette

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“…What young people produce might not be the same as what adults produce, but does that mean that what they articulate is less worthy, less of a genuine political analysis, less of a critique that might lead to change? Authors show that while young people are often associated with (and indeed often very much concerned about) the local, in fact they are also intricately engaged with big national and/or global political issues (Habishi 2008; Hörschelmann 2008; Jeffrey 2008; Skelton and Valentine 2003). However, like adults there are complexities and tensions in their political expressions.…”

Section: Interrogating the ‘Binary’ Between Politics And Politics: Whmentioning

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Taking young people as political actors seriously: opening the borders of political geography

Skelton

2010

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This article challenges the absence of young people from Political Geography. It shows how in many parts of the world young people are in an in-between space politically and legally. This article suggests that the geographically divergent liminal positioning of young people within political-legal structures and institutional practices is what makes them extremely interesting political subjects. I argue for a deconstruction of the generally accepted binary of capital P Politics and lower case p politics. Using an illustration from a non-Western geography, I argue that young people can do more than act politically in the interstices of this binary; they can in fact meld and blend both elements. Taking young people seriously may well create new definitions of the political and demonstrate other ways of conceptualising geopolitics and political geographies.

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Section: Interrogating the ‘Binary’ Between Politics And Politics: Whmentioning

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Taking young people as political actors seriously: opening the borders of political geography

Skelton

2010

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“…Methodological contributions such as Walker et al (2009) argue the importance of unstructured talk as a means for researchers to build rapport with young people. Habashi (2008) examines language as evidence of political socialization, in her work on children's use of terms emerging from Palestinian resistance. Here we focus less on particular language of specific political practices, and more upon the relational exchanges and political formation that emerge through everyday dialogue.…”

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Mapping children's politics: spatial stories, dialogic relations and political formation

Elwood

Mitchell

2012

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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This article confronts a persistent challenge in research on children’s geographies and politics: the difficulty of recognizing forms of political agency and practice that by definition fall outside of existing political theory. Children are effectively “always already” positioned outside most of the structures and ideals of modernist democratic theory, such as the public sphere and abstracted notions of communicative action or “rational” speech. Recent emphases on embodied tactics of everyday life have offered important ways to recognize children’s political agency and practice. However, we argue here that a focus on spatial practices and critical knowledge alone cannot capture the full range of children’s politics, and show how representational and dialogic practices remain a critical element of their politics in everyday life. Drawing on de Certeau’s notion of spatial stories, and Bakhtin’s concept of dialogic relations, we argue that children’s representations and dialogues comprise a significant space of their political agency and formation, in which they can make and negotiate social meanings, subjectivities, and relationships. We develop these arguments with evidence from an after-school activity programme we conducted with 10–13 year olds in Seattle, Washington, in which participants explored, mapped, wrote and spoke about the spaces and experiences of their everyday lives. Within these practices, children negotiate autonomy and self-determination, and forward ideas, representations, and expressions of agreement or disagreement that are critical to their formation as political actors.

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“…3 While visual and creative methods are often seen as being particularly 'child friendly' (Young andBarrett 2001, Rudkin andDavis 2007), there is nothing to suggest that these techniques are only valuable for use with young people, or that they are necessarily the most appropriate tools for research with children. As Habashi (2008Habashi ( , 2011Habashi ( , 2012 has demonstrated, Palestinian children prove themselves to be adept at relating political, religious, and historical narratives to their own personal experiences through research interviews. However, this adeptness and familiarity with political narratives can also be a potential barrier to research exploring how children contest and disrupt such narratives.…”

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Save (us from) the children: trauma, Palestinian childhood, and the production of governable subjects

Marshall

2014

Children's Geographies

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Since the Second Intifada, trauma relief has served as the primary justification for a range of international humanitarian aid projects targeting Palestinian children and youth. Such humanitarian aid projects presume that the default response to violence is trauma, and that trauma left untreated will lead to aggression and violence. Thus, implicit in trauma relief projects targeting Palestinian children is the threat that if they are not properly treated their pent up emotional energy will release itself violently in the future. Moreover, the focus on personal healing through individual self-expression in trauma relief projects serves to depoliticize the context in which violence occurs, transforming the occupation into a set of symptoms to be treated. Likewise, the focus on individual trauma forecloses other possible responses to violence, including empowerment and resistance. Drawing on participant observer research with youth-oriented NGOs in Palestine, as well as with Palestinian children in a West Bank refugee camp, this research seeks to better understand the role of international NGOs in producing particular forms of childhood political subjectivity, and how children themselves variously perform and transform such discursive constructions of Palestinian childhood.

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Language of political socialization: language of resistance

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Taking young people as political actors seriously: opening the borders of political geography

Taking young people as political actors seriously: opening the borders of political geography

Mapping children's politics: spatial stories, dialogic relations and political formation

Save (us from) the children: trauma, Palestinian childhood, and the production of governable subjects

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