Hammett, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-9607-6901 (2018) Engaging citizens, depoliticizing society? Training citizens as agents for good governance. Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography, 100 (2). pp. 64-80. ISSN 0435-3684
Abstract
Discourses of citizenship are profoundly powerful tools both for defining membership of a national community and for establishing the expected dispositions of citizens. Governments and nongovernmental organisations utilise formal and informal education to promote specific understandings of citizenship. However, efforts to promote citizenship are often marked by tensions and paradoxes in terms of content, delivery and reception of these ideals, not least in negotiating global and national, liberal and neoliberal agendas. This paper explores the rationale for and discourses of citizenship presented through a World Bank-backed on-line, transnational active citizenship training and critically interrogates the explicit and implicit ideologies and understandings of citizenship promoted in the course and certain limitations to these, including the types of ‘active’ citizen proposed and the normalised version of participation and civil society these reflect, and apparent limitations in relation to both state- and citizen disengagement as well as the continued challenge of promoting security through engagement across difference.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Citizenship pedagogy; difference; active citizens; responsibilisation; participation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL YOUCITIZEN - 295392 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2017 09:23 |
Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2024 15:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/04353684.2018.1433961 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:123945 |