6. Citizenship’s tangled web : Associations, gaps and tensions in formulations of European youth active citizenship across disciplines

Autor	BANAJI Shakuntala MEJIAS Sam KOUTS Ragne PIEDALE Filipe PAVLOPOULOS Vassilis TZANKOVA Iana MACKOVÁ Alena AMNA Erik
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Year	2018
Research type	paper in Journal
Annotation	How does academic literature across various disciplines conceptualize and empirically address active citizenship? What are the potential benefits and dangers of dominant epistemological and ideological perspectives on ‘good citizenship’? Our paper engages with these questions by drawing on literature across 12 disciplines. We used textual analysis software T-LAB to quantify and visualize co-occurrences, word associations and thematic clusters in the abstracts of 770 texts gathered by eight country teams and original in-depth qualitative analyses of ideological positions and discourses taken up in a selection of key texts across the corpus. Our paper elaborates the findings: that many of the key themes surrounding young people and citizenship in the literature share little or no connection with European citizenship; that there is a significant gap in the literature on young European citizens; and that studies connected to internal, status-based factors connected to citizenship are far more prevalent than those examining external, practice-based factors or dissidence and dissent. Our conclusions examine the potential normative implications of the disjuncture between dominant conceptions and critical accounts of youth active citizenship.
Keywords	European; youth; active citizenship; literature review; T-LAB 9; discourse analysis
Research type	unrepeated research, qualitative , quantitative , comparative research
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Obor	AD Politology and political sciences
Email	amackova@fss.muni.cz
Availability	available after payment
Link	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2017.1367278
Research location	Ne, po zaplacení
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Organisation web	fss.muni.cz
Possible connection	Children and Youth Ratio in population Number of children and young people Expected numbers of children and young people Number of addressed clients by the Youth Information Centres network International youth cooperation