Brands of youth citizenship and the politics of scale: National Citizen Service in the United Kingdom
Brands of youth citizenship and the politics of scale: National Citizen Service in the United Kingdom
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DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.11.007
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Sarah Mills;C. Waite
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作者：
Sarah Mills;C. Waite
本文探讨了青年公民身份背景下的规模政治。我们提出了“青年公民身份品牌”的概念，以了解国家最近在促进年轻人公民身份形成方面的变化，并展示了规模对这一议程的关键作用。因此，我们通过考察学习成为公民的想象力和制度地理，推动关于更广泛地扩大公民身份尺度的辩论。这份报告的实证重点是英国国家资助的青年项目--国家公民服务，该项目于2011年启动，目前覆盖了数万名15-17岁的青少年。我们展示了青年公民身份的“烙印”，在这里从社会行动的角度出发，旨在创造一种特定类型的公民主体。对主要架构师、交付提供商和年轻人的原创研究表明了两个关键的兴趣点。首先，作为国家集体的一部分，国家协调制度中嵌入的青年公民的规模促进了地方范围内的参与，而奇怪的是，全球范围内缺乏这种参与。其次，关于青年公民身份的论述越来越多地与英国人的思想结合在一起，但由于权力下放的地理位置而四分五裂。总体而言，在英国和其他地区关于青年政治的激烈辩论中，本文探讨了青年公民身份的标量政治和表现、其中的紧张关系，以及这项研究对政治地理学家和更广泛的社会的更广泛的影响。
This paper explores the politics of scale in the context of youth citizenship. We propose the concept of ‘brands of youth citizenship’ to understand recent shifts in the state promotion of citizenship formations for young people, and demonstrate how scale is crucial to that agenda. As such, we push forward debates on the scaling of citizenship more broadly through an examination of the imaginative and institutional geographies of learning to be a citizen. The paper's empirical focus is a state-funded youth programme in the UK – National Citizen Service – launched in 2011 and now reaching tens of thousands of 15–17 year olds. We demonstrate the ‘branding’ of youth citizenship, cast here in terms of social action and designed to create a particular type of citizen-subject. Original research with key architects, delivery providers and young people demonstrates two key points of interest. First, that the scales of youth citizenship embedded in NCS promote engagement at the local scale, as part of a national collective, whilst the global scale is curiously absent. Second, that discourses of youth citizenship are increasingly mobilised alongside ideas of Britishness yet fractured by the geographies of devolution. Overall, the paper explores the scalar politics and performance of youth citizenship, the tensions therein, and the wider implications of this study for both political geographers and society more broadly at a time of heated debate about youthful politics in the United Kingdom and beyond.