St Andrews Research Repository

St Andrews University Home
View Item 
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  • Login
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

‘Living rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum

Thumbnail
View/Open
Sanghera_CitStudies2018_Living_Rights_CC.pdf (1.354Mb)
Date
06/2018
Author
Sanghera, Gurchathen S.
Botterill, Katherine
Hopkins, Peter
Arshad, Rowena
Funder
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Grant ID
Keywords
Citizenship
Claims-making
Living rights
Perfomativity
Referendum
Right to vote
JN1187 Scotland
H Social Sciences (General)
T-NDAS
Metadata
Show full item record
Altmetrics Handle Statistics
Altmetrics DOI Statistics
Abstract
This paper examines the rights claims-making that young people engaged in during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum when the right to vote was extended to 16- and 17-year-olds for the first time in the UK. Understanding citizenship and rights claims-making as performative, we draw on the novel idea of ‘living rights’ to explore how young people ‘shape what these rights are – and become – in the social world’. They are co-existent and situated within the everyday lives of young people, and transcend the traditional idea that rights are merely those that are enshrined in domestic and/or international law. We explore the complex and contested nature of rights claims that were made by young people as ‘active citizens’ in the lead up to the referendum to illustrate how the rights claims-making by young people is bound up with the performativity of citizenship that entails identity construction, political subjectivity (that challenges adult-centric approaches) and social justice.
Citation
Sanghera , G S , Botterill , K , Hopkins , P & Arshad , R 2018 , ' ‘Living rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum ' , Citizenship Studies , vol. 22 , no. 5 , pp. 540-555 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076
Publication
Citizenship Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076
ISSN
1362-1025
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Description
This paper is based on research that was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (AH/K000594/1).
Collections
  • University of St Andrews Research
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14525

Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

Related items

Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

  • Stability or renewal : the judicialisation of representative democracy in American and German constitutionalism 

    Miles, David Jonathan (University of St Andrews, 2017-06-20) - Thesis
    This thesis examines how American and German constitutionalism, as shaped by the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), have mediated the tension between threats to stability and ...
  • Survival rights for children : what are the national and global barriers? 

    O'Hare, Bernadette Ann-Marie; Mfutso Bengo, Eva Maria; Devakumar, Delan; Mfutso Bengo, Joseph (2018-12-20) - Journal article
    Most children die in low and middle-income countries as a result of structural injustice, and while it may not be possible to prove causality between economic policies and breaches of rights, it is possible to audit policy ...
  • On rights and demands : how theorists of rights can benefit from taking demands seriously 

    Ho, Kin Ting (University of St Andrews, 2014-12-01) - Thesis
    This thesis explores the normative significance of making a rights-backed, authorized demand as a right holder. Rights, I argue, enable their holders to make a special kind of demand which comes with a special force. It ...
Advanced Search

Browse

All of RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateNamesTitlesSubjectsClassificationTypeFunderThis CollectionBy Issue DateNamesTitlesSubjectsClassificationTypeFunder

My Account

Login

Open Access

To find out how you can benefit from open access to research, see our library web pages and Open Access blog. For open access help contact: openaccess@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Accessibility

Read our Accessibility statement.

How to submit research papers

The full text of research papers can be submitted to the repository via Pure, the University's research information system. For help see our guide: How to deposit in Pure.

Electronic thesis deposit

Help with deposit.

Repository help

For repository help contact: Digital-Repository@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Give Feedback

Cookie policy

This site may use cookies. Please see Terms and Conditions.

Usage statistics

COUNTER-compliant statistics on downloads from the repository are available from the IRUS-UK Service. Contact us for information.

© University of St Andrews Library

University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013532.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter