TY - JOUR
T1 - Productions of space
T2 - Civic participation of young people at university
AU - Ryan, Mary
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - Civic participation of young people around the world is routinely described in deficit terms, as they are labelled apathetic, devoid of political knowledge, disengaged from the community and selfabsorbed. This paper argues that the connectivity of time, space and social values are integral to understanding the performances of young people as civic subjects. Today's youth negotiate unstable social, economic and environmental conditions, new technologies and new forms of community. Loyalty, citizenship and notions of belonging take on new meanings in these changing global conditions. Using the socio-spatial theories of Lefebvre and Foucault and the tools of critical discourse analysis this paper argues that the chronotope, or time/space relationship of universities, produces student citizens who, in resistance to a complex global society, create a cocooned space, which focuses on moral and spiritual values that can be enacted on a personal level.
AB - Civic participation of young people around the world is routinely described in deficit terms, as they are labelled apathetic, devoid of political knowledge, disengaged from the community and selfabsorbed. This paper argues that the connectivity of time, space and social values are integral to understanding the performances of young people as civic subjects. Today's youth negotiate unstable social, economic and environmental conditions, new technologies and new forms of community. Loyalty, citizenship and notions of belonging take on new meanings in these changing global conditions. Using the socio-spatial theories of Lefebvre and Foucault and the tools of critical discourse analysis this paper argues that the chronotope, or time/space relationship of universities, produces student citizens who, in resistance to a complex global society, create a cocooned space, which focuses on moral and spiritual values that can be enacted on a personal level.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84855733470&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01411926.2010.517827
DO - 10.1080/01411926.2010.517827
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84855733470
VL - 37
SP - 1015
EP - 1031
JO - British Educational Research Journal
JF - British Educational Research Journal
SN - 0141-1926
IS - 6
ER -