%0 Journal Article
%T Assembling Citizenship: Sexualities Education, Micropolitics and the Becoming
%A Nick J Fox
%A Pam Alldred
%J Sociology
%@ 1469-8684
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0038038518822889
%X This article suggests that citizenship should be seen not as a status to be acquired, lost or refused by an individual. Rather it is an emergent and relational capacity produced and reproduced in everyday material interactions, across a spectrum of activities from work to lifestyle practices. We examine one example of such a material interaction: the engagements that young people have with sexualities education. To aid this endeavour, we apply a new materialist, relational framework that addresses the micropolitical interactions between humans and non-human materialities. Using data from two studies of sexualities education, we assess how the capacities produced during sexualities education interactions ¨C such as a capacity to express specific sexual desires or to manage fertility proactively ¨C contribute inter alia to young people¡¯s ¡®becoming-citizen¡¯. Informed by this analysis, we argue that sociology may usefully apply a bottom¨Cup model of citizenship as becoming, constituted materially from diverse engagements
%K affect
%K assemblage
%K becoming
%K citizenship
%K micropolitics
%K new materialism
%K sexualities education
%K young people
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0038038518822889