Circulations and the Entanglements of Citizenship Formation

Staeheli, L.A.; Marshall, D.J.; Maynard, N.

Abstract

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 encouraged through pedagogies and practices that moor habits of citizenship in daily lives. Although there has been significant attention to those practices at national and local levels, there has been relatively little attention to the ways that floating sites of citizenship formation are entwined with, but also seem to be suspended above, other sites. There are at least three ways in which circulations both construct those sites and are entwined in citizenship formation: They are the reason that the seeming contradiction between cosmopolitanism and efforts to moor citizens to place becomes unremarkable; they enable and shape the modes of interaction that conjoin politics and emotional geographies; and they are part of the way in which a common understanding of active citizenship is accepted almost without question. We use the examples of two international conferences for young citizen-activists to illustrate our arguments regarding the circulations of ideas, norms, and practice that are central to citizenship formation.

Citation

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

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 16, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jan 4, 2016
• Publication Date: Mar 3, 2016
• Deposit Date: Sep 21, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 4, 2017
• Journal: Annals of the Association of American Geographers
• Print ISSN: 0004-5608
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-8306
• Publisher: Association of American Geographers (AAG)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 377-384
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1100063
• Keywords: Citizenship, Intimacy-geopolitics, Mobility, Youth.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1402474