Citizenship Approach Research Articles

An exploration of the role of digital technology in shaping citizenship for people with mental health challenges

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of digital technology on citizenship for people with mental health challenges (PMHC). Technology is increasingly dominating our lives and changing what it means to be a citizen. Citizenship approaches such as the 5Rs (Ponce and Rowe, 2018; Rowe and Pelletier, 2012) or collective citizenship (Quinn et al., 2020) are gaining prominence as ways to promote the rights and inclusion of PMHC. Therefore, it is essential to explore the impact of technology on citizenship for PMHC. Design/methodology/approach This study was part of a PhD using community-based participatory research (CBPR) conducted alongside 3 peer researchers. Participants (n = 7) were from a mental health peer-led organisation and a digital technology company (n = 4) in England. They participated in semi-structured interviews and a co-production workshop. Data was co-analysed using thematic analysis. Findings Participants viewed technology as a means to promote inclusion but also leading to further division and exclusion. Discussions about technology were seen as central to discussions about citizenship. Participants did not see digital citizenship as a distinct concept. Those from the peer-led organisation wanted to play an active role in shaping citizenship. Originality/value This is the first published study to specifically focus on exploring digital citizenship in the context of citizenship within mental health. The paper highlights the importance of incorporating the impact of technology on mental health and citizenship and raises implications for mental health citizenship-orientated research, policy and practice.

The role of heritage and citizenship in the configuration of a sustainable city model supported by the new urban agendas. From the international scale to a regional model, the case of Andalusia

In the current situation marked by a necessary ecosocial transition, the new urban agendas have been acquiring a leading role, establishing strategies for the transformation of cities based on the principles of sustainability, where the cultural approach takes on a relevant role. The aim of this article is to analyze, the framework agendas drawn up at different levels of government, from the perspective of heritage and culture. To this end, the documents that make up the International, European, Spanish and Andalusian urban agendas are analyzed by means of a bibliographical review, considering heritage and citizenship as key components in the urban configuration. As a result of the multilevel analysis, a series of key factors are identified as a reference framework for the implementation of new urban agendas in cities from a heritage and citizenship approach.

Community-based education and child development work for migrant children in China: a multi-dimensional citizenship approach

The primary focus of this article is to investigate the impact of community-based efforts to provide education and child development programs and service in China’s migrant communities, specifically as it pertains to the prospects of addressing sociocultural and socioeconomic inequalities in education and child development in urban China. Building on frameworks of dimensions of citizenship, this article examines the work of migrant educator-activists who provide community-based education and child development service in Beijing’s migrant communities. Their efforts to address inequalities in child development for migrant children enrich the understanding of citizenship in the Chinese context.

Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? Austerity measures from a child and youth perspective

Inspired by Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies and the lived citizenship approach, this article examines austerity in Denmark from the perspectives of 39 disabled children and young people. The article investigates austerity as a phenomenon encompassing symbolic, material, and affective dimensions. It sheds light on financial cutbacks and their consequences, and points to a more general development in political ideas of welfare. Following the financial crisis, policies aimed at economic growth and productivity, coupled with austerity measures, have created a domino effect. The combination of cutbacks and the political portrayal of disabled people as a “cost problem” legitimises the deterioration of the group’s living conditions and access to public services and assistance. Due to austerity measures, disabled children and young people have increasingly come to experience their relationships with local governments as exhausting and stressful for themselves and their parents, which causes them to develop feelings of guilt and shame.

The Recovering Citizenship Learning Collaborative: a system-wide intervention to increase citizenship practices and outcomes

PurposeThis paper aims to describe the Recovering Citizenship Learning Collaborative (RCLC), a training, consultation and implementation effort for 13 local mental health authorities and two state hospitals.Design/methodology/approachThe learning collaborative used a Recovering Citizenship approach, which holds that recovery occurs in the context of people’s lives in their communities and society, that is, their citizenship. The RCLC was implemented by the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) in the USA and the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health along with lived experience leaders. The RCLC supported system change through training DMHAS staff on concepts of recovery and citizenship and developing agency action plans, with the long-term goal of improving citizenship-oriented care at the agency-level and recovery and citizenship-related outcomes for people receiving services.FindingsLessons learned include the importance of assessing organizational readiness for change, addressing leadership investment and attention to systemic barrier, and offering tools to promote structure and accountability. Next steps are supporting agency action plans through technical assistance, state-wide educational offerings and a resource library.Research limitations/implicationsSystemic barriers are considerable and must be addressed before system transformation is possible.Practical implicationsThe authors are hopeful that the RCLC has been part of overcoming those challenges and can be a tool for building foundations for improving citizen practices and people’s citizenship-related outcomes.Social implicationsNext steps are sustaining agency action plans, ongoing agency-specific technical assistance, ongoing state-wide educational offerings and a resource library.Originality/valueThe RCLC has provided tools and supports to build the foundation for improved citizenship practices and client outcomes at the multiagency system level.

On (national) citizenship and (de)politicised nations: Everyday discourses about the Catalan secessionist movement

This paper examines the Catalan independentist movement understood as a paradigmatic case of secessionist politics in a European context. Drawing on recent rhetorical-psychological studies on citizenship and nationhood, we explore how constructions of citizenship and national identity interweave to shape, warrant, and contest opposing arguments about Catalan independence and Spanish sovereignty. We conducted a discursive-rhetorical analysis of thirty open-ended interviews and one focus group with Catalan residents that held different positions towards independence. The analysis shows that arguments for independence construct secession demands as a citizenship right that, in turn, assumes different versions of the Catalan national community. Arguments against independence reify the Spanish national identity by constructing it as a political community where all citizens have the same rights. Both argumentative poles position “the nation” as a core element in political citizenship discourses. Specifically, we argue that a diversity of citizenship formulations stressing democratic rights, practices, and political traditions, rhetorically work both to support and to challenge otherwise explicitly ethnic, cultural, and civic understandings of nationhood. The article advances a historically situated approach of citizenship and national categories attending to their specific rhetorical mobilisations in current independentist conflicts.

Internalization of Pancasila Student Profile Values based on Digital Citizenship as Preparation for Industry 4.0 and Implementation of Independent Learning Policy

Character education is an interesting issue in preparing children at the elementary school level to become a digital-based global society. This study aims to describe the process of Internalization of Pancasila student profile values based on digital citizenship preparation for the industrial era 4.0 and Merdeka Belajar case study at a state elementary school in Kepuhrejo. This is a case study with data from observations, interviews, and documentation involving 13 key informants, namely the principal, 6 classroom teachers, and 6 students who were previously determined based on the required criteria. Data analysis is carried out by interacting with existing data: reduce, present, and conclude. For the validity of the data, triangulation was carried out. The results of the study show that the planning process utilizes the results of the discussion from the teacher working group combined with literacy needs in the 4.0 era. The implementation uses an internalization approach that emphasizes habituation, direct experience, and exemplary both in the classroom and outside the classroom to strengthen data, technology and human literacy as a form of digital citizenship approach preparation for the industrial era 4.0

Meeting in the middle: experiences of citizenship in community-engaged psychosis research

PurposePrevious research has highlighted the importance of engaging people with lived experience (PWLE) in the knowledge creation process. However, diverse approaches to engagement exist. In addition, tensions remain in community-engaged research (CER), including how to address structural inequalities in research settings. This study aims to consider how CER interacts with citizenship within and beyond the research context.Design/methodology/approachThis study discusses the authors’ experiences as a majority-PWLE of psychosis research team in Canada, including successes and challenges the authors experienced building their team and navigating research institutions. This study also reflects on the authors’ pathways through citizenship, prior to and during the research process. This study discusses divergent models of CER and their applicability to the cyclical process of citizenship and community participation.FindingsRelationships between academic and peer researchers developed organically over time. However, this study was limited by structural barriers such as pay inequality and access to funding. The authors recognize that there are barriers to full citizenship and acknowledge their resources and privilege of being well supported within their communities. Team members built on a foundation of citizenship to access participation in research. This led to opportunities to engage in community spaces, and for PWLE to participate in research as partners and leaders. This study also found that citizenship is a way of giving back, by building a sense of social responsibility.Originality/valueAcademic and peer researchers can reflect on the authors’ experiences to build more inclusive research teams and communities by using a citizenship approach to research participation.

Young people with Tunisian origins living in Italy: a case of transnational lived citizenship?

In recent years, the merging of the lived citizenship approach with the transnational perspective has shed a brighter light on the spatiality of everyday citizenship practices. Starting from this premise, the present study investigates whether and how a group of young people, aged between 22 and 28, with Tunisian parentage residing in the province of Modena (Northern Italy) live their citizenship transnationally. It involves questioning what their citizenship practices are, whether their transnational ties translate into lived citizenship, and what are the sites in which these people live their citizenship. The study draws on 14 in-depth interviews collected between 2020 and 2021, offering fresh insights into the role of transnational bonds in shaping the geographies and the contents of citizenship practices among young people with migrant parents. The findings confirm the heuristic validity of merging the transnational perspective with the lived citizenship approach, especially when inquiring into the practices of citizenship among migrants’ descendants.

Digital Healthcare Development for Global Citizenship: Equality of Access to Health Facilities and Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

The COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia requires government efforts to provide health service technology in addition to maximizing health protocols. Digital Healthcare is used to provide digital data and facilitate access to health services for patients and health workers. The government has formed a policy regarding digital technology for health services that seeks to improve digital technology. However, there are still issues related to manual data entry, the lack of equal distribution of internet access, and user trust issues that affect the equality of access to healthcare facilities. Based on these problems, the paper assesses how the development of digital healthcare has affected the equality of access to health facilities and services during the COVID-19 pandemic by using the conceptual approach of Digital Healthcare and Global Citizenship. Qualitative research methods are used in a descriptive-analytical manner with analyzed literature sources. The results of this study found that the Indonesia Health Service (IHS) system, New All Record, was already available in Indonesia along with Digital Healthcare such as Citizen Health App, Peduli Lindungi, and Halodoc. However, there is a need for government collaboration in developing digital systems and monitoring health services for the community, outreach to the public, and maximizing online data entry via the web and existing applications for the challenges of manual data entry and digital healthcare equality in Indonesia.
 Keywords: digital healthcare, global citizenship, equality of health facilities, equality of health services, the COVID-19 pandemic

Desafíos de la formación ciudadana en Chile: análisis de las oportunidades y limitaciones en el desarrollo de la educación para la ciudadanía global en las nuevas bases curriculares para 3º y 4º medio

The complex socio-political scenario that Chile has experienced in recent years highlights the importance of citizenship education in schools. From the public policy area, the educational purposes of citizenship have been progressively expanded in the curricular frameworks, however, these have not yet incorporated the Global Citizenship approach, a perspective that has become fundamental to educate students in a globalized, complex and diverse context. The following research determines -through an exploratory and emergent study- the opportunities and limitations to shape citizenship from the perspective of Education for Global Citizenship in the guidelines of the New Curricular Bases for the 11th and 12th grades, issued in 2019, from the content analysis of the curricular documents. The main results showed that the proposal does not explicitly consider global citizenship, leaving it to the teacher’s criterion to incorporate this approach based on potential content and global issues. This highlights the relevance for teachers to have not only initial but also permanent training that allows them to adequately prepare the task of forming citizenship from different perspectives at schools.

Developing youth toward pluralistic environmental citizenship: a Taiwanese place-based curriculum case study

Environmental and sustainability education cannot disconnect itself from politics. In order to achieve sustainable societies, we need approaches that educate students capable of coping with the political complexities of environmental issues in a civic environmental context. This study proposes a pluralistic environmental citizenship approach based on the exploration of a 13-month long curriculum case study that engaged Taiwanese youth in deliberating over a highly controversial wetland policy related to their community. By tracing five focal students’ learning trajectories in depth, this study revealed that students conceptualize their roles toward a pluralistic environmental citizenship including four elements: conception of community, conception of environment, legal and institutional knowledge, and pluralistic values. This study showcases the potential power of integrating deliberative pedagogies in place-based education and how they can enrich environmental citizenship education.

LANGKAH STRATEGIS MENANGKAL HOAX: SUATU PENDEKATAN KEBIJAKAN DAN HUKUM

<p><em>Along with the pace of globalization and modernization, information and communication technology is developing very rapidly. Communication media has developed from mainstream mass media to social media, all of which are actually to make human life easier. Different motives and interests cause the media to be used for different purposes. Hoax, for example, is a phenomenon of deviant use of media, the tendency of which is to get to a very serious level, namely to divide unity and integrity.</em></p><p><em></em><em>So there need to be strategic steps that must be taken to prevent the spread of hoaxes. Through the approach of diversity and citizenship (digital citizenship) it is hoped that it can improve media literacy skills so that they are technology and information literate. So that people are not easily trapped in leading erroneous opinions. A structural approach in the form of political will from the government is also available. Various regulations in the form of laws and regulations and supporting infrastructure such as the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) have also been formed. Thus the handling of various negative content has a strong policy and juridical footing.</em></p>

U.S. Family Law Along the Slippery Slope: the limits of a sexual rights strategy for polyamorous parents

Families in the United States are rapidly changing, and the normative familial model of two married, monogamous, heterosexual parents with children no longer reflects the majority of U.S. families. Nonetheless, state incentive-based policies and discriminatory family laws continue to enforce heteronormative monogamy. Recent changes to the U.S. legal landscape have produced limited formal recognition and protections for same-sex couples and LGBTQ parents, and even these narrow rights are withheld from other diverse familial configurations including families with polyamorous parents. This article uses the concept of sexual citizenship to frame the analysis of U.S. family courts’ normative construction of family, identifying striking parallels between family courts’ historical and contemporary prejudicial treatment of LGBTQ parents and the institution’s similar delegitimization and denigration of polyamorous parents today. This paper reviews polyamorous parents’ efforts towards achieving legal and societal legitimatization, finding significant parallels with legal strategies LGBTQ parents utilized to seek legal recognition and protection prior to federal recognition of same-sex marriage. This paper highlights the inadequacies of such a formal sexual citizenship approach, finding that a limited strategy of accumulating specific sexual rights fails to address non-monogamy’s more radical cultural presence as well as the (non-legal) informal aspects of belonging needed to improve the livability of polyamorous parents’ and their children’s lives. This paper concludes with recommendations for improving the treatment of non-traditional families including LGBTQ, polyamorous, and other blended families, both within and outside the legal institution.

A Buddhist-Humanist exploration of global citizenship within various spaces and places

In this autoethnographic study, I negotiate my identity as a mixed-caste South Asian woman, drawing on a Buddhist-humanist spiritual approach to examine the development of global citizen identity. The non-Western perspective of global citizenship discussed in the paper, challenges the mono-epistemological version of research produced in the English-speaking world. I discuss three experiences in my life that correspond to the cultivation of the tenets of global citizenship namely wisdom, courage, compassion as articulated by Ikeda. This paper offers a practical and experiential example of applying a non-dominant global citizenship approach and seeks to institutionalize the field as a discourse in the pursuit of global peace, social justice, and universal human rights.

Enforcing the rights of migrants with irregular status: City ID cards as a remedy?

Migrants who live in Switzerland without valid residence papers find themselves in a complex and contradictory legal position. Even though they are entitled to a great number of rights, they are rarely able to claim them in practice. This paper analyzes the challenges that migrants with irregular status face when enforcing their rights. Furthermore, a strategy that could potentially serve as a remedy to their lacking access to justice is explored; the approach of urban citizenship and the introduction of city ID cards.

Material Citizenship: An ethnographic study exploring object-person relations in the context of people with dementia in care homes.

Materiality has become an increasingly important topic in sociological studies of health care. How objects support the identity of people with dementia in care homes is an emerging area. While early research has tended to focus on sentimental or cherished items (such as photographs or keepsakes), the present study focused on functional objects (such as curling tongs or a hairdryer) as a mechanism to actualise citizenship. This article presents findings from an ethnographic study into the everyday experiences of people with dementia living in a residential care home in southern England. Drawing on a framework analysis of observations of daily life, object-elicitation interviews with residents, in-depth interviews with staff and relatives and documentary research, the findings demonstrate that object relations are a critical but overlooked site for citizenship. Residents are rarely involved in decision-making relating to their personal possessions, lack control over objects and are often discouraged from material interactions important to the maintenance and cultivation of identity. We introduce a new concept 'material citizenship' to advance thinking and practice in this area and argue that it is valuable for care practices to combine a material citizenship approach with existing care practices; thus, elevating the importance of object-person relations in dementia care.

Critical global citizenship

This introductory paper to our first issue provides reflection on the concept of critical global citizenship at both theoretical and practical levels. We maintain that ‘citizenship’, irrespective of its level of articulation (i.e. national, international, global, etc.) remains an issue that reflects a status, a feeling and practices that are intrinsically interlinked. As a legal status, formal citizenship allows individuals to form a sense of belonging within a political community and, therefore, empowers them to act and perform their citizenship within the spatial domains of the nation-state. Critical global citizenship, asks these same individuals not so much to neglect these notions of belonging and practice to a particular locale, but to extend such affinities beyond the territorial boundaries of their formal national membership and to think critically and ethically about their local, national and global relationship with those who are different from themselves. Making a case for a critical global citizenship, however, also requires acknowledging material inequalities that affect the most vulnerable (i.e. migrants, asylum seekers, those experiencing poverty, etc.) and which mean that efforts to cultivate global citizenship orientations to address social injustice are not enacted on an even playing field. As such, a critical global citizenship approach espouses a performative citizenship that is at once democratic and ethical, as well as being aimed at achieving social peace and sustainable justice, but which is also affected by material conditions of inequality that require political solutions and commitment from individuals, states, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations.1
 1 This article is based on F. Mansouri (2014), ‘The Global Citizenship Project: From Words to Action’, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. © UNESCO, Paris

Public Administration Concern for Social Values, Can it Improve Tax Compliance? (Tax Office Studies in Indonesia)

This paper examines a public administration perspective using social value as well as nonmonetary incentives to engage SMEs and step from the research question whether they will increase voluntary tax compliance as returns. The current tax socialization is no longer just a model for submitting tax articles to raise more money, or focuses specifically on explaining why tax obligations must be paid, sanction or penalties. The mission of public institutions as educators has been adopted by Directorate General of Taxes, instilling a sense of trust between the government and society, the social value focal point approach of taxation and citizenship that aims to foster a commitment to become citizens with noble character. SMEs tend to hide from tax obligations in accordance with the character of cash transactions, do not have business licenses, do not have a fixed address, and are also difficult to trace on the national administrative data network. Their obligation to pay taxes is only 0.5% of turnover, ironically, taxation socialization events just to inform people are less enthusiastic about being attended. The Indonesian Directorate General of Taxes launched a new model of tax socialization by combining training services for business development. This study found social norms as compliant citizens were sewn into each of these events. The new model of tax outreach has been found to be a magnet for SMEs to be pulled out of places tax offices find it hard to find. So far, however, their concern for taxes as a reciprocal form of obedience to the state is still low. This indicates that the distinctive role of public administration in the form of an enforcement system from the tax office is very important. The theoretical implication of human economic behavior can lead to an infectious ego attitude without a more proportional public agency arrangement. From its practical implications, it is recommended that the Directorate General of Taxes immediately collaborate between networks of government agencies to agree on shared responsibilities with the aim of building a national tax culture.

Citizen Perceptions on Language and Dual Citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Case of Goma City

The paper sought to explore the view of people in Goma city on the question of language and dual citizenship in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It also analyzed the constitutional provisions on citizenship. The liberal theory of citizenship by Micheal Lister was employed for studying on citizenship. The liberal theory of citizenship shares important aims and assumptions with radical citizenship approaches, which emphasizes democracy, voice and difference. This theory gives the importance of citizenship education and the multi-ethnicities engagement in the making and implementation of the Citizenship in the DRC. The study analyzed the law on citizenship and explored the view of people by observing them; the researcher used the questionnaire and the in-depth interviews with respondents in Goma city. A total of 102 participants participated in this study while the secondary data was sought from the constitution of the 24th November 2004, accompanied by the organic law of the 18th February 2006. The findings showed the facts people are founding holding dual citizenship while it prohibits in the DRC. Using documents and thematic analysis the study revealed that the government of DRC has to lift up the moratorium on citizenship debate at the National Assembly, allocate resources for the census to know who is and who is not Congolese and learn from others countries experiences on language and dual citizenship. The Congolese government must ensure the protection of applicants for citizenship and punish those who still hold dual citizenship. Finally, the government must bring the citizenship education in the everyday life of Congolese. It emerged from the study that there is high corruption in government institutions, and the easy use and access of false document in Goma. The study recommended the government of the DRC to reevaluate the application of the law on citizenship and the roles of each government agency and institution in charge of the deliberating the citizenship issue. Finally, it recommended that the Government straighten the political relation with its all neighbor’s countries.