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Postcolonial Civic Identity and Youth (dis)organizing Environment: A Growth into Citizenship Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorIdrus, Mohd Muzhafaren_US
dc.contributor.authorHashim, Ruzy Sulizaen_US
dc.contributor.authorMydin, Raihanah Mohden_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-29T03:26:19Z
dc.date.available2024-05-29T03:26:19Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe fluid realities of youth in postcolonial nation-states can reflect changing and challenging landscapes. Their engagements with environment, for example, are not only elaborated in social, political, and economical contexts, but also generated through values, beliefs, and identities. This article adds to contemporary debates by positing that discussions on postcolonial civic identities have to be accompanied by youth narratives and their considerations on nature, time, and digital world(s) by taking Malaysian youths as examples. Specifically, it attempts to theorize youth civic identity within postcolonial context(s) by scrutinizing personal narratives that are symbiotically yoked with discourses on ecology and technology. Through administering personal narratives at a suburban district in West Peninsular Malaysia, this paper opens 'windows' into what it means for youths to participate in civic projects. Reading these narratives from the lens of growth into citizenship, their wide-ranging experiences in civic affairs can be understood in four ways, namely, recognition, responsibilities, reconciliation, and reciprocity. Two of these emerging themes, recognition and responsibilities, will be discussed in this article. Our attempt at depicting postcolonial civic identity, therefore, is part of a large-scale investigation on civic mindedness that will compel us to reflect on unofficial, continuous accounts of youth reflecting on a sense of belongingness and what the future might bring.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.17576/gema-2020-2002-08
dc.identifier.epage147
dc.identifier.issn1675-8021
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopusWOS:000545025800008
dc.identifier.spage133
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085278128&doi=10.17576%2fgema-2020-2002-08&partnerID=40&md5=fcc7881e1e85d96d68461d0893b268ae
dc.identifier.urihttps://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/12100
dc.identifier.volume20
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPenerbit Univ Kebangsaan Malaysiaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofGema Online Journal Of Language Studiesen_US
dc.subjectcivic identitiesen_US
dc.subjectgrowth into citizenshipen_US
dc.subjectpostcolonialen_US
dc.subjectyouth narrativesen_US
dc.titlePostcolonial Civic Identity and Youth (dis)organizing Environment: A Growth into Citizenship Analysisen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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