Young people mobilizing the language of citizenship: struggles for classification and new meaning in an uncertain world

Kennelly, Jacqueline; Dillabough, Jo-Anne

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“…These aspirational, "cosmopolitan" identities are characterised by flexibility and mobility across the spaces of the city. In contrast, young people living in less affluent neighbourhoods and on the urban fringes are less mobile and are positioned and position themselves as "out of place" or not "at home" in relation to certain, valued cultural places and activities (Kennelly & Dillabough, 2008). How young people are located spatially in relation to culture in the city can have profound effects on their ideas about cultural value and on their access to social and cultural capital.…”

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Teenage Kicks: Exploring cultural value from a youth perspective

Manchester

Pett

2015

Cultural Trends

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In contemporary accounts of cultural value, young people's perspectives are often restricted to analyses of their encounters with formal cultural institutions or schools or to debates surrounding the cultural implications of new digital spaces and technologies. Other studies have been dominated by instrumental accounts exploring the potential economic benefit and skills development facilitated by young people's cultural encounters and experiences. In this paper we examine the findings of a nine month project, which set out to explore what cultural value means to young people in Bristol. Between October 2013 and March 2014, the Arts and Humanities Research Council "Teenage Kicks" project organised 14 workshops at 7 different locations across the city, with young people aged 11-20. Working in collaboration with a network of cultural and arts organisations, the study gathered a range of empirical data investigating the complex ecologies of young people's everyday/"lived" cultures and values. Young people's own accounts of their cultural practices challenge normative definitions of culture and cultural value but also demonstrate how these definitions act to reproduce social inequalities in relation to cultural participation and social and cultural capital. The paper concludes that cultural policy-makers should listen and take young people's voices seriously in re-imaging the city's cultural offer for all young people.

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Teenage Kicks: Exploring cultural value from a youth perspective

Manchester

Pett

2015

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“…As a result, young people living in a neoliberal democracy find themselves negotiating a very confusing, uncertain and contradictory landscape in which the pervasive and dominant ideas about how to be a 'citizen' contradict their own experiences of insecurity and even impoverishment. As Kennelly and Dillabough (2008) show, young people's engagement with the neoliberal economy shapes their politics and the meaning that they ultimately give to ideas about belonging and citizenship itself. In the case of the Chilean students discussed here, their lived experiences suggest that the symbolic meanings attached to established neoliberal variants of citizenship (i.e.…”

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“…The leaders of the student movement tend to focus on the latter; but the vast number of young people who feel deceived about their own lifechances have undoubtedly swelled the size of the protests in the schools, universities and on the streets. It is this context and the sense of deception that it has generated amongst Chile's youth that set the scene for the new engagement by young people with the concept of citizenship after 2006 (Kennelly and Dillabough 2008).…”

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Protest, citizenship and democratic renewal: the student movement in Chile

Grugel

Singh

2015

Citizenship Studies

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“…Kennelly & Dillabough, 2008). The suggested changes refer to the conditions of their schooling, with more individualised teaching (e.g.…”

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Urban Education and Segregation: The Responses from Young People

Öhrn

2012

European Educational Research Journal

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This article takes as a starting point the segregation of urban areas and discusses schooling in the neighbourhoods typically associated with problems and challenges, in order to explore young people's responses to their schooling and social positions. Such responses include individual acts, such as rejecting further schooling or dismissing the local school in favour of prestigious ones, as well as the development of shared understandings and collective formations. The article focuses in particular on young people's responses through aesthetic practices, informal education and public political actions. Although research suggests that youths in poor areas are increasingly individualised and shows that schools provide them with little help to understand and act upon their circumstances in school, the analyses here also bring to light young people's rather strong belief in collective actions; students' formations of resistance groups and political knowledge appear as crucial resources, and, although scarce, teacher support and teaching about political actions appear as important.Urban education, as a field of research, revolves around contrasts: on one side, the urban associations with poverty, marginalisation and problems, and on the other, the links to opportunities, high culture and capital. This urban-urbane problem also takes the form of physical segregation as people with low income/education and immigrant backgrounds are grouped together in certain areas whereas those with more capital dwell elsewhere. Young people in these respective areas face different conditions for schooling as well as, more generally, for living. This article focus on the young people in marginalised areas, typically associated with problems and challenges, in order to explore their responses to schooling and their social positions.

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Young people mobilizing the language of citizenship: struggles for classification and new meaning in an uncertain world

Cited by 53 publications

References 12 publications

Teenage Kicks: Exploring cultural value from a youth perspective

Teenage Kicks: Exploring cultural value from a youth perspective

Protest, citizenship and democratic renewal: the student movement in Chile

Urban Education and Segregation: The Responses from Young People

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