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Abstract
Street-living youth are deprived of formal citizenship due to their age and exclusion from school or other state apparatus through which cultural/moral values are shared. Drawing on participatory longitudinal data from research in three African cities, this paper explores a nuanced ‘street citizenship’ as facilitated through informal processes and spaces, suggesting ‘street citizenship’ can be active and sometimes activist, with the potential to challenge understandings of poverty and marginalization in childhood more widely. Street-living youth’s lived citizenship practices are developed at various scales within communities, cities and states and through engagement with local communities, civil society, policymakers and governments.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 330-345 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Space and Polity |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 8 Apr 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Citizenship
- Street youth
- African cities
- Knowledge exchange
- street youth
- knowledge exchange
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Growing up on the Streets: Research with and for young people on the streets, 2012-2016
van Blerk, L. (Creator), Shand, W. (Creator), Shanahan, P. (Creator), Hunter, J. (Creator), Gbeglo, S. (Contributor), Rubambura, T. D. (Contributor) & Chitsiku, S. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 14 Sep 2020
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-854123
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van Blerk, Lorraine
- Geography and Environmental Science - Professor & Human Geography
Person: Academic