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Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective

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Politics, Citizenship and Rights

Part of the book series: Geographies of Children and Young People ((GCYP,volume 7))

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This chapter discusses young people’s citizenship experiences and learning in rural Estonia. The focus is on the key everyday relations and contexts – home, school, and leisure places – where citizenship is situated. The authors argue that such different contexts provide different opportunities for acting and being and thus different opportunities for participation and citizenship learning. The age group in focus is young people between 15 and 19. This age group is of particular interest in political studies as a group close to accessing most formal (adult) political processes (18 years for many countries) and therefore a target of enhanced political awareness campaigns (such as civics education). The chapter concludes with a discussion on the relevance of recognizing young people’s everyday engagement.

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  1. Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, Landleven 1, 9747 AD, Groningen, Netherlands

    Elen-Maarja Trell & Bettina van Hoven

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  1. Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG), Centre of Excellence in Research on the Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization (RELATE), University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

    Kirsi Pauliina Kallio

  2. Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

    Sarah Mills

  3. Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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Trell, EM., van Hoven, B. (2016). Young People and Citizenship in Rural Estonia: An Everyday Perspective. In: Kallio, K., Mills, S., Skelton, T. (eds) Politics, Citizenship and Rights. Geographies of Children and Young People, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-57-6_23

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