Youth citizenship and the politics of belonging: introducing contexts, voices, imaginaries

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements The papers in this Special Issue, along with many others, were presented at a series of themed symposia organised by the guest editors at the biennial UKFIET conference held at the University of Oxford in September 2009. We are grateful to each contributor, from 11 different countries, for stimulating our thinking and provoking discussion that has ultimately led to this Special Issue. Our referees were drawn from nine countries. We are grateful to all of the following for their constructive criticism and recommendations: Muna Amr, University of Jordan, Jordan; Rachel Bray, Research Consultant, South Africa; Dympna Devine, University College Dublin, Ireland; Lynn Davies, University of Birmingham, UK; Wim Hoppers, Association for the Development of Education in Africa, The Netherlands; Dina Kiwan, University of London, UK; Jacqueline Kennelly, Carlton University, Canada; Patricia Kubow, Bowling Green State University, USA; Peter Kallaway, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Fiona Leach, University of Sussex, UK; Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Robert Macdonald, Teesside University, UK; Halleli Pinson, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Jenny Parkes, University of London, UK; Hugh Starkey, University of London, UK; Lonnie Sherrod, Fordham University, USA; and Lester Taylor, Educational Consultant, New Zealand. We would also like to acknowledge research assistance from Duncan Scott at the Human Sciences Research Council and Andrew Webb at the University of Cambridge. Notes See the website, available at: http://www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/dnloads/youth_commisoners_final_report_dated_09.pdf.