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Living Rights’, Rights Claims, Performative Citizenship and Young People–the Right to Vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum

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Sanghera, Gurchathen, Botterill, Katherine, Hopkins, Peter, Arshad, Rowena·2018·Citizenship Studies
DOI 10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076
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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.

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  • In this study, a number of young people who had not been eligible to vote in the independence referendum still experienced the referendum/independence question as affecting their political agency.

    “Interestingly and in contrast to the participants in previous studies (Breeze et al. , 2015, 2017; Sanghera et al. , 2018; Mackie, 2019), this was also the case for a number of the young people who participated in this study, even though they themselves had not been eligible to vote in the independence referendum.”

    From How Young People in Scotland Experience the Right to Vote at 16: Evidence on ‘Votes-at-16’ in Scotland from Qualitative Work with Young People (2021) · cites this paper as Sanghera et al., 2018

    The citing sentence attributes the earlier study of voting and political agency to Sanghera et al.; the ineligible young people are participants in the citing authors’ own study. Sanghera et al.’s “Reflections on the act of voting” says the right to vote affected some respondents’ political engagement, supporting that contrast. But “The right to vote in the Scottish referendum” also describes 15-year-old participants who were not eligible to vote, so the implied contrast in eligibility is not clean. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  • The participants of this study all came of age well after the 2014 referendum and were not eligible to vote in it, contrary to other studies.

    “This is a remarkable finding in that contrary to other studies (cf. Breeze et al. , 2017; Sanghera et al. , 2018; Mackie, 2019) the participants of this study all came of age well after the 2014 referendum and were not actually eligible to vote in it.”

    From How Young People in Scotland Experience the Right to Vote at 16: Evidence on ‘Votes-at-16’ in Scotland from Qualitative Work with Young People (2021) · cites this paper as Sanghera et al., 2018

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Authors
Sanghera, G., Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., & Arshad, R.
Affiliations
  • University of St Andrews (GB)
  • Edinburgh Napier University (GB)
  • Newcastle University (GB)
  • University of Edinburgh (GB)
Corresponding author
Sanghera, Gurchathen
ORCID
Venue
Citizenship Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2018-06-18
Volume
22
Issue
5
Pages
540-555
ISSN
  • 1362-1025 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-3593
DOI
10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076
OpenAlex
W2805081164
Cited by
21
References
30
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1
FWCI
5.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Citizenship Studies (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity) (cc-by)
Funders
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/K000594/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Children's Rights and Participation
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth, Politics, and Society
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Keywords
performative citizenship, youth, Scottish independence referendum 2014, voting rights, 16-17 year olds, active citizenship, political subjectivity, identity construction, social justice, youth political participation

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