Cities and citizenship / James Holston, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holston, James.

Series:

Public Culture Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--Case studies.

Sociology, Urban.

Cities and towns--Case studies.

Cities and towns.

Urban policy--Case studies.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. For most of the modern era the nation and not the city has been the principal domain of citizenship. This volume demonstrates, however, that cities are especially salient sites for examining the current renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging. Just as relations between nations are changing in the current phase of global capitalism, so too are relations between nations and cities. Written by internationally prominent scholars, the essays in Cities and Citizenship propose that 'place' remains fundamental to these changes and that cities are crucial places for the development of new alignments of local and global identity. Through case studies from Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America, the volume shows how cities make manifest national and transnational realignments of citizenship and how they generate new possibilities for democratic politics that transform people as citizens. Previously published as a special issue of Public Culture that won the 1996 Best Single Issue of a Journal Award from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, the collection showcases a photo essay by Cristiano Mascaro, as well as two new essays by James Holston and Thomas Bender.

Contents:

Introduction: cities and citizenship / James Holston and Arjun Appadurai

Intellectuals, cities, and citizenship in the United States: the 1800s and 1990s / Thomas Bender

Urban youth and Senegalese politics: Dakar 1988-1994 / Mamadou Diouf

Islamic modernities? citizenship, civil society, and Islamism in a Nigerian city / Michael Watts

São Paulo: photographic essay / Cristiano Mascaro

Fortified enclaves: the new urban segregation / Teresa P.R. Caldeira

Genealogy: Lincoln Steffens on New York / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Christopher Kamrath

Spaces of insurgent citizenship / James Holston

Whose city is it? globalization and the formation of new claims / Saskia Sassen

Is European citizenship possible? Etienne Balibar

Violence, culture, and democracy: a European perspective / Michel Wieviorka

From the Atlas to the Alps: chronicle of a Moroccan migration / Marco Jacquemet.

Notes:

"A public culture book"-- Opposite title page

"The text of this book was originally published without the preface, index, and essays by Thomas Bender and James Holston as Public culture 8, no. 2 (winter 1996)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822322740

0822322749

9780822396321

0822396327

OCLC:

1139378049