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Field name	Details
Nuova numerazione	75934
Collocazione	UPS BIBL CENTR SL-II-633
Autore	CROSSOUARD, B.
Titolo	Politics, gender and youth citizenship in Senegal : youth policing of dissent and diversity. Parte componente di periodico
Descrizione fisica	pp. 43-60
Nota generale	Estratto da: International Review of Education 2015, 61, 1
Riassunto	This paper reports on empirical research on youth as active citizens in Senegal with specific reference to their education and their sexual and reproductive health rights. In a context of postcoloniality which claims to have privileged secular, republican understandings of the constitution, the authors seek to illuminate how youth activists sustain patriarchal, metropolitan views of citizenship and reinforce ethnic and locational (urban/rural) hierarchies. Their analysis is based on a case study of active youth citizenship, as reflected in youth engagement in the recent presidential elections in Senegal. This included involvement in youth protests against pre-election constitutional abuse and in a project monitoring the subsequent elections using digital technologies. The authors compare how youth activists enacted different notions of citizenship, in some instances involving a vigorous defence of Senegal’s democratic constitution, while in others dismissing this as being irrelevant to youth concerns. Here the authors make an analytic distinction between youth engagement in politics, seen as the public sphere of constitutional democracy, and the political, which they relate to the inherently conflictual and agonistic processes through which (youth) identities are policed, in ways which may legitimate or marginalise. Despite the frequent construction of youth as being agents of change, this analysis shows how potentially productive and open spaces for active citizenship were drawn towards conformity and the reproduction of existing hegemonies, in particular through patriarchal gender relations and sexual norms within which female youth remained particularly vulnerable.
Tipo di documento	RICERCA.
Soggetto	DIRITTI UMANI.
	CITTADINANZA.
	POLITICA.
	IDENTITÀ DI GENERE.
	DIFFERENZA SESSUALE.
	SESSUALITÀ.
	SENEGAL.
Ambito	Sociologico
Ambito	Pedagogico
Autore Secondario	DUNNE, M.
Titolo correlato	International Review of Education 2015, 61, 1.
Accesso online	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eue&AN=108484734&lang=it&site=ehost-live

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Politics, gender and youth citizenship in Senegal : youth policing of dissent and diversity.