Disputing citizenship / John Clarke, Kathleen Coll, Evelina Dagnino and Catherine Neveu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, John, 1950- author.

Coll, Kathleen M., author.

Dagnino, Evelina, author.

Neveu, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2014.

Summary:

This title presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute. The authors contest the way it is normally conceived and analysed within the social sciences, developing a view of citizenship as always emerging from a struggle.

Contents:

1 Recentering citizenship 9

Introduction 9

Contextualising citizenship 12

Citizenship: political projects and cultural formations 22

Citizenship, politics and the adventures of culture 34

Culture, politics and cultural citizenship 45

Conclusion: recentering citizenship - views from the margins 49

2 Decentering citizenship 57

Unsettling citizenship 60

Pluralising the state 71

Decentering the state in practice 87

Dividing and multiplying: reinventing 'the people' 95

Assembling citizenship 97

Conclusion: decentering in theory and practice 104

3 Imagining the 'communities* of citizenship 107

Nationalising and naturalising citizenship 110

Becoming post-national? 120

Reinventing the 'communities' of citizens 125

Sites and scales of citizenship 131

A politics of scale? 140

Locations and localisations 149

Citizenship taking place 156

Conclusion: citizenship as connective 164

Conclusion: Disputing citizenship 169

Citizenship in the making 170

Contested meanings: what is at stake in citizenship? 172

The unfinished 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index.

ISBN:

1447312538

9781447312536

144731252X

9781447312529

OCLC:

871416248