The anthropology of citizenship : a reader / Sian Lazar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazar, Sian.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Cross-cultural studies.

Citizenship.

Civil society--Cross-cultural studies.

Civil society.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Summary:

"The Anthropology of Citizenship introduces the theoretical foundations of and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world, in local, national and global contexts. Key readings provide a cross-cultural perspective on citizenship practices, and an individual citizen's relationship with the state. Introduces a range of exciting and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world Provides key readings for students and researchers who wish to gain an understanding of citizenship practices, and an individual's relationship with the state in a global context Offers an anthropological perspective on citizenship, the self and political agency, with a focus on encounters between citizens and the state in education, law, development, and immigration policy Provides students with an understanding of the theoretical foundations of citizenship, as characterized by liberal and civic republican ideas of political belonging and exclusion Explores how citizenship is constructed at different scales and in different spaces Twenty-five key writings identify what is a new and vibrant subfield within politics and anthropological research "-- Provided by publisher.

"Introduces a range of exciting and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Theoretical foundations. Civic republican traditions. The democratic citizen / Pericles

The politics / Aristotle

The social contract, 1762 / Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The decline of the nation-state and the end of the rights of man, 1951 / Hannah Arendt

Liberal traditions. Two treatises of government, 1689 / John Locke

Declaration of the rights of man, France, 1789

The second constitution of Haiti (Hayti), May 20, 1805

Citizenship and social class, 1950 / T.H. Marshall

The liberal-communitarian debate. The ideal of community and the politics of difference, 1986 / Iris Marion Young

Constructing an anthropology of citizenship. Cultural citizenship in San Jose, California, 1994 / Renato Rosaldo

Cultural citizenship as subject-making: immigrants negotiate radical and cultural boundaries in the United States, 1996 / Aihwa Ong

Spaces of insurgent citizenship, 1999 / James Holston

Part II. Ethnographic explorations. Citizenship regimes, subject-formation and the state. Education for credit: development as citizenship project in Bolivia, 2004 / Sian Lazar

Producing good citizens: languages, bodies, emotions, 2008 / Veronique Benei

Biological citizenship: the science and politics of Chernobyl-exposed populations, 2004 / Adriana Petryna

Inclusive citizenship and claims-making from below. Reframing Agrarian citizenship: land, life, and power in Brazil, 2009 / Hannah Wittman

Life itself: triage and therapeutic citizenship, 2010 / Vinh-Kim Nguyen

Citizenship beyond the nation-state. The queen of the Chinese colony: contesting nationalism, en-gendering diaspora, 2005 / Lok C.D. Siu

Transborder citizenship: an outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields, 2005 / Nina Glick Schiller

Difficult distinctions: refugee law, humanitarian practice and political identification in Gaza, 2007 / Ilana Feldman

Urban citizenship. The implosion of modern public life, 2000 / Teresa P.R. Caldeira

Contesting citizenship in urban China: peasant migrants, the state and the logic of the market, 1999 / Dorothy J. Solinger

The citizen and the non-citizen. The war of 'who is who': autochthony, nationalism, and citizenship in the Ivoirian crisis, 2006 / Ruth Marshall-Fratani

Practicing German citizenship, 2008 / Ruth Mandel

The legal production of Mexican/migrant 'illegality', 2005 / Nicholas de Genova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lazar, Sian. Anthropology of citizenship.

ISBN:

9781118412916

1118412915

9781118424452

111842445X

OCLC:

832262926