From Big Society to Shared Society? Geographies of social cohesion and encounter in the UK's National Citizen Service
From Big Society to Shared Society? Geographies of social cohesion and encounter in the UK's National Citizen Service
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从大社会到共享社会？
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10.1080/04353684.2017.1392229
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2017
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Mills S
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本文探讨并扩展了关于社会凝聚力和相遇的地理，特别是与年轻人和非正式公民培训有关的辩论。在本文中，有三个问题驱动着我们的议程。首先，某些青年空间如何被纳入更广泛的政治话语，作为政府愿景的地理表达，以创造政治遗产？第二，这些空间是如何设计和在地面上运行的？最后，年轻人如何理解他们在这些空间中的经历？为了解决这些问题，我们以“国家公民服务”为例——一个在英格兰和北爱尔兰开展的青年项目——提出了关于非正式教育空间的更广泛政治以及国家“制造”公民和未来邻居的尝试的关键问题。这篇文章探讨了这一日益增长的计划的基本原理，该计划针对15-17岁的青少年，旨在培养一个“更有凝聚力、更负责任、更积极参与的社会”。通过与主要建筑师、利益相关者和年轻人的原始实地考察，我们分析了NCS及其扩展背后的叙事——特别是围绕社会凝聚力和公民教育。我们探讨了“社会混合”作为NCS指导原则之一的概念，以及它作为“大社会”和“共享社会”国家叙事的一部分的地位。
This article explores and expands debates on the geographies of social cohesion and encounter, specifically in relation to young people and informal citizenship training. Three questions drive our agenda in this paper. First, how do certain youth spaces get enrolled into wider political discourses, functioning as geographical expressions of government visions to create a political legacy? Second, how are these spaces engineered and operate on-the-ground? Finally, how do young people understand their experiences of such spaces? To address these questions, we use the example of ‘National Citizen Service’ – a youth programme operating in England and Northern Ireland – to raise critical questions about the wider politics of spaces of informal education and attempts by the state to ‘make’ citizens and future neighbours. The article examines the rationale for this growing scheme, targeted at 15–17 year olds and designed to foster a ‘more cohesive, responsible and engaged society’. Drawing on original fieldwork with key architects, stakeholders and young people, we analyse the narratives that underlie NCS and its expansion – specifically around social cohesion and citizenship education. We explore the idea of ‘social mix’ as one of NCS’ guiding principles and its place as part of state narratives about the ‘Big Society’ and ‘Shared Society’.