Cosmopolitan Aspirations

New Media, Citizenship Education and Youth in Latin America

Bibliographic Data

ID4524764
AuthorsMaribel Blasco (0000-0003-3590-650X, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author), Hans Krause Hansen (0000-0003-2595-8787, Copenhagen Business School)
Year2006
Volume10
Issue4
Pages469-488
Publication date2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621020600857890
OpenAlexW2167545986
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited33

A wide variety of supranational organizations and networks are currently promoting educational initiatives aimed at disseminating particular values and notions of citizenship in Latin America via new media and in particular the Internet. These organizations exercise a growing influence on educational objectives and techniques in the region. Despite the fact that access is still modest among many sectors in Latin America, the hope is that these new media will contribute to the eradication among young people of undesirable behaviour such as delinquency and political apathy, and instead foster a stronger sense of civic responsibility. That sense might underpin a more constructive, entrepreneurial global youth culture espousing universal, multicultural values rather than particularistic, parochial ones. The Internet is presented in such initiatives as possessing intrinsically educational, entrepreneurial and democratizing properties. The article explores the activities of supranational organizations and networks operating in Latin America, and seeks to provide a glimpse of the idealised youth identities that they envision. It is argued that the new roles assigned to education are shaped by new media optimism, cosmopolitan aspirations and a post-national rather than nationally anchored conception of citizenship. Theories of governance and governability are used to understand how these developments can be seen in terms of the globalization of politics and the ensuing changes in the forms, rationalities and techniques of governance in a wide range of issue areas, including education

Citizenship · Corporate governance · Cosmopolitanism · Globalization · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Transnational governance · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law

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