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Title: | Assembling citizenship: sexualities education, micropolitics and the becoming-citizen |
Authors: | Alldred, P Fox, NJ |
Keywords: | affect;assemblage;becoming;citizenship;micropolitics;new materialism;sexualities education;young people |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Citation: | Sociology (2019), pp. 3803851882288 |
Abstract: | This article suggests that citizenship should be seen not as a status to be acquired, lost or refused by an individual. Rather it is an emergent and relational capacity produced and reproduced in everyday material interactions, across a spectrum of activities from work to lifestyle practices. We examine one example of such a material interaction: the engagements that young people have with sexualities education. To aid this endeavour, we apply a new materialist, relational framework that addresses the micropolitical interactions between humans and non-human materialities. Using data from two studies of sexualities education, we assess how the capacities produced during sexualities education interactions – such as a capacity to express specific sexual desires or to manage fertility proactively – contribute inter alia to young people’s ‘becoming-citizen’. Informed by this analysis, we argue that sociology may usefully apply a bottom–up model of citizenship as becoming, constituted materially from diverse engagements. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17278 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0038038518822889 |
ISSN: | 0038-0385 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers |
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