Bustillos Morales, Jessie;
(2025)
Between Disenfranchisement and Polarisation:
Mapping Youth Online and School-Related Affective Assemblages of Civic Participation.
In: Dyer, Harry and Bates, Agnieszka and Gordon, John and Hinchliffe, Geoffrey, (eds.)
Society, Politics and Education in Uncertain Times.
Routledge: London, UK.
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Abstract
This chapter uses Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical concepts to elaborate on interpretations of qualitative research into discursive understandings of civic participation by school-aged young people. The chapter positions Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptualisations of affect and assemblage as a method to make sense of youth civic participation experiences online and at school through their relationalities. The chapter pays close attention to what it identifies as affective assemblages, which help explore the complex flows of affect and channelling of desire that underpin the research participant experiences of civic participation. The notion of affective assemblages is also used to understand the relationalities between school and online spaces which are explored through complex flows of disenfranchisement and polarisation in the young people’s experiences. The chapter analyses qualitative data presented in vignettes from a research project in the United Kingdom exploring experiences of school life and social media engagements by young people. The analysis problematises how youth social media spaces are characterised by liberatory practices that help them engage in citizenship and civic-worthy activities, and further explores how online youth experiences can become polarising and lack opportunities for young people to be critical of media content, as issues of equality and social justice are experienced narrowly.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Between Disenfranchisement and Polarisation: Mapping Youth Online and School-Related Affective Assemblages of Civic Participation |
| ISBN-13: | 9781032658247 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781032658278 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032658278 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213022 |
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