Outputs (17)

Contesting the ‘Active’ in active citizenship: youth activism in Cape Town, South Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Buire, C., & Staeheli, L. A. (2017). Contesting the ‘Active’ in active citizenship: youth activism in Cape Town, South Africa. Space and Polity, 21(2), 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2017.1339374

In post-apartheid South Africa, efforts to encourage practices of citizenship and new citizens who will act in ways that support communities and the nation are promoted by government policies and networks of international organizations, civil society... Read More about Contesting the ‘Active’ in active citizenship: youth activism in Cape Town, South Africa.

Narrating palimpsestic spaces (2017)
Journal Article
Marshall, D., Staeheli, L., Smaira, D., & Kastrissianakis, K. (2017). Narrating palimpsestic spaces. Environment and Planning A, 49(5), 1163-1180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x17690531

The term ‘palimpsest’ refers to medieval manuscripts that have been multiply erased and inscribed with the overlapping texts of successive scribes. More recently and amongst academics, the term has become a metaphor for describing the city, including... Read More about Narrating palimpsestic spaces.

Circulations and the Entanglements of Citizenship Formation (2016)
Journal Article
Staeheli, L., Marshall, D., & Maynard, N. (2016). Circulations and the Entanglements of Citizenship Formation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 106(2), 377-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1100063

Citizenship is given form, meaning, and power through the transactions and circulations that constitute it. Our focus in this article is the ways in which circulations through networks and institutions that extend beyond nation-states are enacted and... Read More about Circulations and the Entanglements of Citizenship Formation.

Mapping civil society with social network analysis: Methodological possibilities and limitations (2015)
Journal Article
Marshall, D., & Staeheli, L. (2015). Mapping civil society with social network analysis: Methodological possibilities and limitations. Geoforum, 61, 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.015

This paper explores the possibility of using social network analysis and visualization as a tool for qualitative research in human geography. The approach uses formal network analysis in concert with ethnographic research methods. Specifically, we ta... Read More about Mapping civil society with social network analysis: Methodological possibilities and limitations.

Nature, environmentalism, and the politics of citizenship in post-civil war Lebanon (2015)
Journal Article
Nagel, C. R., & Staeheli, L. A. (2016). Nature, environmentalism, and the politics of citizenship in post-civil war Lebanon. cultural geographies, 23(2), 247-263. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015572304

More than 20 years after its devastating civil war (1975–1990), Lebanon has seen a burgeoning of environmental activism and discourse. Contemporary environmentalism is articulated largely by Western-educated activists, many of them working in the Wes... Read More about Nature, environmentalism, and the politics of citizenship in post-civil war Lebanon.

International Donors, NGOs and the Politics of Youth Citizenship in Contemporary Lebanon (2015)
Journal Article
Nagel, C. R., & Staeheli, L. A. (2015). International Donors, NGOs and the Politics of Youth Citizenship in Contemporary Lebanon. Geopolitics, 20(2), 223-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2014.922958

In the aftermath of 9/11, Western states have increasingly used the promotion of democracy and civil society as a means of effecting geopolitical aims in the Middle East. Democracy promotion has involved extensive financial support of local non-gover... Read More about International Donors, NGOs and the Politics of Youth Citizenship in Contemporary Lebanon.

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.