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THE 2011 ANTIPODE AAG LECTURE Whose Responsibility Is It? Obligation, Citizenship and Social Welfare (2013)
Journal Article
Staeheli, L. (2013). THE 2011 ANTIPODE AAG LECTURE Whose Responsibility Is It? Obligation, Citizenship and Social Welfare. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 45(3), 521-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01026.x

This article explores the ways that responsibility for social welfare and wellbeing is framed by service providers, activists and the state in two moments of welfare restructuring in the United States. Many service providers and activists rework noti... Read More about THE 2011 ANTIPODE AAG LECTURE Whose Responsibility Is It? Obligation, Citizenship and Social Welfare.

Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship (2013)
Journal Article
Staeheli, L. A., Attoh, K., & Mitchell, D. (2013). Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship. Space and Polity, 17(1), 88-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2013.780715

In this paper, a framework is presented for exploring how youth perform their citizenship through political engagements. The framework provides a way to explore the agency of youthful citizens as imagined by different agents and the ways that youth u... Read More about Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship.

Transition and the Education of the New South African Citizen (2013)
Journal Article
Hammett, D., & Staeheli, L. (2013). Transition and the Education of the New South African Citizen. Comparative Education Review, 57(2), 309-331. https://doi.org/10.1086/669123

South Africa’s democratic transition was a time of optimism, with immense hopes pinned on the youth who would be educated to see themselves as equal citizens. It was also a time of pragmatic decision making, not least in the education sector, which w... Read More about Transition and the Education of the New South African Citizen.

'For the future of the nation': Citizenship, nation, and education in South Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Staeheli, L., & Hammett, D. (2013). 'For the future of the nation': Citizenship, nation, and education in South Africa. Political Geography, 32, 32-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.11.003

Countries emerging from societal conflicts and division engage in simultaneous processes of citizenship and nation formation. Citizenship education programmes have become a pillar in these efforts, as youth are imagined as being amenable to new ideas... Read More about 'For the future of the nation': Citizenship, nation, and education in South Africa.