Palestinian Children Crafting National Identity

Habashi, Janette

doi:10.1177/0907568207086833

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“…Said claims that we form and understand ourselves when we engage with what we perceive as opposite, an Other, and that this process is inseparably linked to dimensions of space as well as power. This connection between identity and space has recently caught the attention of researchers doing research with children whose work has pointed out the need for examining children's geographies as moments of experience and meaning lived in, with, and through space (Habashi 2008;Holloway and Valentine 2000;Philo 2000).…”

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Experiencing the same but differently: indigenous minority and immigrant children’s experiences in Cyprus

Theodorou

Symeou

2013

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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This paper examines the experiences of minority students from two different cultural groups, immigrant children of Pontian background and indigenous minority children of Roma descent, in the Greek-Cypriot educational system. Through a joint re-examination of results from two different qualitative studies, this paper delineates similarities and differences of how life at school is experienced through the eyes of children who are not part of the mainstream, in an effort to gain insight into the nuances of being a minority child in the specific educational system. Comparisons across the two groups of children suggest that although both groups shared a minority status, they nonetheless experienced marginalisation across different dimensions that were linked to their dual multilayered position as both insiders and outsiders. Attention to such complexities enables us to gain deeper understandings of children's lives, as too often the category of 'minority child' seems to be treated as a monolithic and homogeneous one.

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Experiencing the same but differently: indigenous minority and immigrant children’s experiences in Cyprus

Theodorou

Symeou

2013

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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“…Nakata (2008) notices children's roles in unarmed racial struggles in a similar manner. Another original example of children's agency in political conflicts is portrayed by Janette Habashi (2008), who studies children's everyday lives in the present Palestine. She emphasizes that Palestinian children's political socialization and politically significant action mostly takes place in their everyday environments, and is played out in banal practices, such as jokes, graffiti writing, music and theatre.…”

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Tracing children’s politics

Kallio

Häkli

2011

Political Geography

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“…the 'politics' writ small (e.g. Altay 2007;Cahill 2007;Kjørholt 2007;Habashi 2008;Hörschelmann 2008;Thomas 2009). Importantly, these research streams are intertwined as 'Politics' and 'politics' do not exist apart from each other but are co-constituted in the socio-spatial practices of everyday life and policymaking (Philo & Smith 2003;Percy-Smith 2006;Skelton 2010).…”

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Young people’s voiceless politics in the struggle over urban space

Kallio

Häkli

2011

GeoJournal

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This article discusses the particularity of young people's politics as it unfolds in the practice of everyday life. By exploring a conflict concerning the use of a public park in the City of Oulu, Finland, we discuss how young people may participate in struggles over urban space trough politics that is not based on voice but voicelessness. This political engagement can be understood as a form of non-participatory politics that is easily left unnoticed -politics that shirks civic involvement, customary participatory practices and articulated resistance. We deem it important to acknowledge such action as political for two reasons. First, voiceless politics is a weapon of the weak: It is used when other political agencies are not feasible. Viewing non-participation as apolitical will only further marginalize those who practice politics in such ways. Second, it is important to find ways of acknowledging non-participatory action because, while not commonly understood as politics, it is not easily bypassed in political struggles either. By distinguishing political aspects from young people's urban behaviors, instead of hearing their presence as mere noise, provides tools for bringing their politics to the public agenda and thus developing more democratic urban spaces.

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Palestinian Children Crafting National Identity

Cited by 57 publications

References 13 publications

Experiencing the same but differently: indigenous minority and immigrant children’s experiences in Cyprus

Experiencing the same but differently: indigenous minority and immigrant children’s experiences in Cyprus

Tracing children’s politics

Young people’s voiceless politics in the struggle over urban space

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