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2. Citizenship in the age of populism
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Paulina Tambakaki
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people ,liberal theory ,democracy ,affect ,Political Science and International Relations ,Geography, Planning and Development ,rights - Abstract
The tension between citizenship and democracy is well documented in the literature on citizenship. The paper revisits it through the lens of populism. It engages with the critics and proponents of the phenomenon and it argues that the juxtaposition that they all stage between the people and the citizens does not just intensify the tension between the exclusionary politics of citizenship and democracy’s universalising aspirations, but it also threatens to restrict the appeal of citizenship to mainstream liberal theory. The paper concludes by suggesting that the kind of affectivity, which democratic mobilisations draw on, and that one associates with the ‘people’, is often missing from citizenship practices – and this further undermines the connection between citizenship and democracy.
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- 2022
3. Precarious citizenship: detection, detention and ‘deportability’ in India
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Salah Punathil
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Political Science and International Relations ,Geography, Planning and Development - Abstract
In 2019, India made the unprecedented move of listing 1.9 million people in its northeast state of Assam as illegal migrants from Bangladesh in a new National Register of Citizens before passing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which overtly discriminates against the country’s Muslim minority. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, this paper investigates the reality of precarious citizenship under India’s increasingly anti-migrant regime, particularly for Bengali-speaking Muslims. Going beyond the predominant notion that illegal migrants acquire documentary citizenship through fraudulent means after crossing the porous border between India and Bangladesh, this essay reveals a reverse scenario: those living with citizenship rights and in a regular social world are subjected to the gradual process of detection, detention and ‘deportability’ in India. This paper employs the concept of precarious citizenship to unravel this complex and oscillating world of legality and illegality, citizenship and noncitizenship, and the predicaments of life as a Bengali-speaking Muslim in India.
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- 2022
4. Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances
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Annamari Vitikainen
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VDP::Humanities: 000::Philosophical disciplines: 160 ,VDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160 ,Ideal (set theory) ,ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Environmental ethics ,Indigenous ,0506 political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY ,Sociology ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
This paper discusses the notion of ‘citizenship as shared fate’ as a potentially inclusive and real-world responsive way of understanding Indigenous citizenship in a non-ideal world. The paper draws on Melissa Williams’ work on ‘citizenship as shared fate,’ and assesses some of the benefits and drawbacks of using this notion to understand citizenship in Indigenous and modern state contexts. In particular, the paper focuses on the challenges that existing non-ideal circumstances – past and enduring injustices and unequal power relations – bring to the understanding of ‘citizenship as shared fate’, and the normative constraints for realizing such citizenship in our contemporary world. By developing this notion in light of Indigenous claims for justice, the paper proposes three side constraints to the notion of ‘citizenship as shared fate,’ including its openness to different views of history, the role of history in shaping the future, and acknowledging – and countering – prevailing power relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The paper concludes by looking at some of the implications of the reconceptualized notion of ‘citizenship as shared fate’ for the shaping of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in the Nordic/Sápmi context.
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- 2020
5. A material politics of citizenship: the potential of circulating materials from UK Immigration Removal Centres
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Peter Forman and Sarah M. Hughes
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media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Immigration ,0507 social and economic geography ,Resistance (psychoanalysis) ,0506 political science ,Politics ,Empirical research ,Argument ,Intentionality ,Law ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,Materialism ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common ,Law and economics - Abstract
This paper introduces a materialist approach to Isin’s concept of ‘acts of citizenship’ to call for an attention to the lively and agential materials that mediate citizenship claims. It describes two ways in which materialism helps progress conceptualisations of citizenship. Firstly, it demonstrates the ways in which a materialist viewpoint forces a reconsideration of ‘acts of citizenship’ as undertaken by heterogeneous collectives, rather than them being the sole responsibility of human actors. Secondly, it suggests that, because acts of citizenship arise out of socio-material entanglements, they may exceed the apparent intentions of human subjects. This paper argues that materials are more than bystanders in claims to citizenship; they actively mediate and facilitate encounters through which political claims are made. This argument is developed through a detailed empirical study of the materials permitted to circulate from Immigration Removal Centres during a community exchange project organised by the charity Music in Detention.
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- 2017
6. Youth organizations, citizenship, and guidelines for tourism in the wake of mass tourism in Finland
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Juha Ridanpää and Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola
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business.industry ,Tourism geography ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Perspective (graphical) ,0507 social and economic geography ,Public relations ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,Political Science and International Relations ,Club ,Youth organization ,business ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,050212 sport, leisure & tourism ,Tourism ,media_common - Abstract
This paper will study tourism as a site of citizenship formation with a particular focus on the arrangements and lived practices of citizenship in the Finnish Youth Organization and in a sub-section of Northern Ostrobothnian Travel Club between 1965 and 1985. From the perspective of the model of citizenship in Finland, modern mass tourism was not unproblematic and it was uniquely incorporated in the program and activities of the Finnish Youth Organization, underlining the wider social and civic utility of tourism. In this paper, the examination of archive materials from this particular historical period will provide a nuanced understanding of the mutual formation of citizenship and tourism at multiple geographical scales and insight into how the model of citizenship has been of great importance for mobile people in many ways.
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- 2017
7. To settle for a gendered peace? Spaces for feminist grassroots mobilization in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Maria-Adriana Deiana
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Mobilization ,Inclusion (disability rights) ,Consociationalism ,media_common.quotation_subject ,SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Context (language use) ,Gender studies ,050601 international relations ,0506 political science ,Politics ,Grassroots ,Political Science and International Relations ,Ethnography ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
This paper offers an examination of citizenship in the context of post-conflict transformation as an important scenario in which to investigate the possibilities for the inclusion of women and women’s demands in the transition to peace. Drawing on interview and ethnographic data collected in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the paper highlights a site of tension between the aspirations for transformation and inclusion set out internationally in UNSCR 1325 and the gender underpinnings of consociationalism that shape the broader political, social and cultural context of citizenship in these case studies. It illustrates that women and women’s claims are repeatedly side-lined in favour of matters that are deemed of more vital interest in the quest for ‘peace’, such as relations between ethno-national groups, security concerns and stability of institutions. Despite this damning failure, women and feminist activists continue to mobilise, as individuals and collectively, in order to make demands for social, political and cultural transformation. The paper argues that attending to these dynamics is crucial if we strive to transform the gender regimes underpinning war/peace and acknowledge women as agents in this process.
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- 2015
8. State, social policy and subaltern citizens in adivasi India
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Sudheesh Ramapurath Chemmencheri
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Civil society ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Agency (philosophy) ,Redistribution (cultural anthropology) ,JA Political science (General) ,Subaltern ,Politics ,State (polity) ,Political economy ,Law ,Political Science and International Relations ,JQ Political institutions Asia ,Sociology ,Citizenship ,media_common ,Social policy - Abstract
This paper argues that social policies work towards the subject-making of subaltern citizens by defining the grammar of state–subaltern relationship. The Forest Rights Act of India (2006) defines the state–adivasi relationship through a two-way process: claim-making by the indigenes for forest rights, and reduction of the discourse by the state into a politics of recognition without redistribution. While adivasis have employed their agency in wresting social policies from the state through protracted struggles, they are also made subjects of the state as they go about the Forest Rights Act procedure. The paper further points out that adivasi struggles and the organisations representing them constitute a distinct adivasi society contra the middle-class civil society. Though the spirit of the Act envisages substantive redistribution, the state institutions and the monitoring Non-Governmental Organisations have yet to adopt redistribution as a core narrative.
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- 2015
9. Democratic coordination and eco-social crises
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Fonna Forman, David Owen, and James Tully
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Political Science and International Relations ,Geography, Planning and Development - Abstract
Today we confront planetary crises at a time when our structures of governance are characterised by ‘dysfunctionality’, ‘hollowing out’, ‘gridlock’ and democratic governance faces ‘antagonistic self-destruction’, ‘authoritarian supersession’, or ‘death of democracy’. How should we address this predicament? This paper proposes an approach grounded in acknowledging different modes of democratic citizenship and in recognizing that addressing eco-social crises requires coordination among them. We distinguish five modes of democratic practice against the backdrop of a distinction between two general pictures of citizenship and illustrate how different modes of democratic citizenship (e.g. participatory citizens and Gaia citizens) may ‘join hands’ to address shared challenges. This approach, we propose, brings to light a slow but sure means of democratic change and transformation
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- 2022
10. Empirical understandings of informal citizenship and membership: internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic Of Congo
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Carolien Jacobs and Nadia Sonneveld
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Politics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political economy ,Political science ,Internally displaced person ,Political Science and International Relations ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Citizenship ,Democracy ,media_common - Abstract
In the last two decades, empirical scholars have asserted that citizenship may include memberships in political communities other than the nation-state. This paper is based on fieldwork (2015–2017)...
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- 2021
11. Learning to be Legal: Transition Narratives of Joy and Survivor Guilt of Previously Undocumented 1.5-Generation Latinx Immigrants in the United States
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Tara Fiorito, Identities, Diversity and Inclusion (IDI), and Sociology
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Subjectivity ,SDG 16 - Peace ,Transition (fiction) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Immigration ,legal violence ,Latinx ,Gender studies ,SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities ,survivor guilt ,Justice and Strong Institutions ,1.5-generation ,Political Science and International Relations ,Ethnography ,subjectivity ,Narrative ,Sociology ,Undocumented ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
Relying on in-depth interviews and ethnographic research in California (2011–2018), this article theorizes the experiences of politicized, 1.5-generation Latinx immigrants who have transitioned out of undocumented status. It shows that transitioning out of undocumented status comes with feelings of joy and privilege, as well as with feelings of survivor guilt, ontological fragmentation, and wanting to take up new responsibilities as a way of repaying, and standing in solidarity with, undocumented family and community members. I argue that the transitioning experiences of previously undocumented immigrants relate to (1) their mixed-status families in the context of uneven penalization of undocumented immigrants, (2) the immigrant narrative of struggle and sacrifice, (3) politicization, pressure, and social control within the immigrant rights movement, and (4) their durably embodied undocumented subjectivities. This paper thereby advances more relational understandings of citizenship, (political) subjectivity, and the profound effects of legal violence caused by the citizenship regime.
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- 2021
12. Everyday discourse as a space of citizenship: the linguistic construction of in-groups and out-groups in online discussion boards
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Ulla Tuomarla, Simo K. Määttä, Karita Suomalainen, Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ), Faculty Common Matters (Faculty of Arts), Department of Languages, Translation Studies, and French Language and Culture
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Online discussion ,STRATEGIES ,Islamophobia ,hate speech ,media_common.quotation_subject ,518 Media and communications ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Immigration ,Space (commercial competition) ,Online communication ,050602 political science & public administration ,6121 Languages ,Sociology ,Citizenship ,in-groups and out-groups ,media_common ,05 social sciences ,Media studies ,06 humanities and the arts ,060202 literary studies ,Ingroups and outgroups ,0506 political science ,performativity ,0602 languages and literature ,Political Science and International Relations ,Performativity ,islamophobia ,5171 Political Science - Abstract
In this paper, we analyze online discussion threads related to national belonging in Finland, Denmark, and France. These discussions are all related to immigration and the definition of 'legitimate' citizens. Our approach is empirical: the goal is to show how in-groups and out-groups are construed linguistically and discursively in the data and how the interactants negotiate membership categories and express their opinions regarding them. The most important in-group in the datasets consists of the nationals born in the country, whereas the out-group par excellence is formed by Muslims. The data show how the boundaries of national communities are performatively constructed through the everyday discourse of online fora, which constitute an important arena of societal debate today. This discourse draws its force from the reiteration of stereotypical generalizations and the power attached to the written word in a communication environment enabling an efficient dissemination of ideological discourse.
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- 2021
13. Sexual citizenship: rhetoric or reality for Rural Gay Men in Ireland and England?
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Aidan McKearney
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Political Science and International Relations ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Rhetoric ,Gender studies ,Sociology ,Rural area ,Space (commercial competition) ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
This paper assesses the experiences of gay men living and working in rural areas of Ireland and England. Fieldwork conducted in both countries, finds that gay men who live in the rural space share ...
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- 2021
14. Social policy with tunnel vision: problems of state efforts to curb adolescent pregnancy in post 1988 Brazil
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Beatriz Burattini
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Pregnancy ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Government ,Inequality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Public health ,Geography, Planning and Development ,HQ The family. Marriage. Woman ,medicine.disease ,Health indicator ,Developmental psychology ,Disadvantaged ,HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform ,JC Political theory ,Political Science and International Relations ,Agency (sociology) ,medicine ,Psychology ,Social policy ,media_common - Abstract
This paper examines how conceptualisations of adolescence and adolescent pregnancy by the Brazilian state between 1989 and 2010 have shaped social policy addressing adolescent pregnancy. This was examined based on policy documents and public health indicators concerned with adolescent pregnancy. According to this data, adolescents were initially seen as a homogenous group vulnerable to pregnancy as a health risk. While parts of the government began to perceive adolescents as more heterogeneous individuals with agency and responsibility in the 2000s, health indicators lagged behind. Adolescents’ intersecting identities, characteristics of the men and boys who impregnate girls and the extent to which adolescent pregnancies were planned or not were key social factors that were often ignored. Moreover, adolescent pregnancy was largely medicalised. This led to narrow social policy approaches to adolescent pregnancy which ignored the wider social contexts of diverse adolescents in Brazil. Based on two examples, I show how this unidimensional focus ignores the lack of opportunities offered to disadvantaged adolescents by the Brazilian education system and labour market, which make pregnancy more attractive than desired by the state. My second example highlights how the invisibility of the father in health indicators contributes to the idea that adolescent pregnancy only affects adolescents, instead of highlighting gendered inequalities that affect Brazilian society as a whole, including other age groups
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- 2021
15. Malignant citizenship: race, imperialism, and Puerto Rico-United States entanglements
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Ileana I. Diaz
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media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Colonialism ,0506 political science ,Race (biology) ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,Ethnology ,Racialization ,Colonization ,Necropolitics ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
As inhabitants of a US territory, Puerto Ricans experience their American citizenship under a set of constraints, shaped by processes of colonization, imperialism, and racialization. This paper is ...
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- 2021
16. Beyond citizenship: the material politics of alternative infrastructures
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Fredy Mora-Gámez
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media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Media studies ,Solidarity ,0506 political science ,Migration studies ,Politics ,Intersection ,Political Science and International Relations ,Ethnography ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
This paper argues for a line of inquiry in the intersection between migration studies and STS work around the notion of material politics in alternative spaces. Drawing on multisited ethnographic i...
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- 2020
17. Deployed fears and suspended solidarity along the migratory route in Europe
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Margit Feischmidt
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media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Context (language use) ,Dehumanization ,Solidarity ,0506 political science ,Political science ,Political economy ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,Suspension (vehicle) ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
The aim of the paper is to understand the reasons for the spread of fear, the suspension of solidarity, and the securitizing national and local context along the European migratory route. A settlem...
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- 2020
18. Becoming a citizen through marriage: how gender, ethnicity and class shape the nation
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Janine Dahinden and Anne Kristol
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Class (computer programming) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Ethnic group ,Gender studies ,Context (language use) ,0506 political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,Nation state ,Sociology ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
The role of marriage in accessing membership entitlements has been studied extensively in the context of marriage migration, but it remains under-researched in the literature on citizenship acquisition. This paper explores specific constructions of deservingness vis-à-vis the foreign spouses of citizens and their marriages in the context of facilitated naturalization in Switzerland. Based on an ethnographic investigation of the naturalization practices of street-level bureaucrats, we show that the politics of belonging in the context of access to citizenship is regulated by intersecting gendered, ethnicized and classed logics of desirability about how a marriage should be. Additionally, a patrilineal logic continues to guide street-level bureaucrats de facto even when legislation has introduced de jure gender equality. Finally, we demonstrate that it is not only immigration regimes, but also citizenship regimes that employ assumptions about what constitutes a ‘good marriage’ in order to draw the boundaries of the nation.
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- 2019
19. Horizontal citizenship in Estonia: Russian speakers in the borderland city of Narva
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Alina Jašina-Schäfer and Ammon Cheskin
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Range (biology) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Perspective (graphical) ,0507 social and economic geography ,Gender studies ,0506 political science ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
This paper critically interrogates the notion of ‘citizenship’ from the politically-charged perspective of Russian speakers in Estonia. Drawing on a broad range of critical citizenship literatures, and ethnographic examples from the borderland city of Narva, we propose re- and de-centring citizenship away from universalising conceptions, towards a historically and culturally grounded horizontal perspective on citizenship. While cognisant of dominant, state-centric approaches in Estonia, we present citizenship as a process unfolding through individual, everyday practices of belonging. We demonstrate how Russian speakers, excluded from membership in the Estonian community, can still become members in many less-formal ways, through vibrant interaction with local space.
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- 2019
20. The micropolitics of border struggles: migrants’ squats and inhabitance as alternatives to citizenship
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Deanna Dadusc
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media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Resistance (psychoanalysis) ,0506 political science ,Political economy ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,Squatting position ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
This paper discusses the struggles of the We Are Here movement in Amsterdam as resistance to both securitarian and humanitarian border regimes. It explores the tensions between everyday for...
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- 2019
21. Canada 150: exhibiting national memory at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
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Angela Failler
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Human rights ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,050301 education ,16. Peace & justice ,Indigenous rights ,0506 political science ,Law ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,0503 education ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
This paper features an analysis of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and its showcase for ‘Canada 150’, the sesquicentennial anniversary of Canadian Confederation. Particular attention is...
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- 2018
22. From ‘me towns’ to ‘we towns’: activist citizenship in UK town centres
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Dobson, J.
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media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Citizen journalism ,02 engineering and technology ,Consumption (sociology) ,Right to the city ,Law ,Political economy ,Political Science and International Relations ,Economic model ,Sociology ,Psychological resilience ,050703 geography ,Futures contract ,Urban space ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
Britain’s town centres have witnessed economic, social and physical upheaval over more than half a century, linked to sweeping changes in retailing and consumption. Yet they are also places where activists are seeking to fashion alternative futures and test social and economic models that challenge neoliberal norms. Reflecting on recent developments in the UK, this paper explores the potential of citizen-led economic activism in British town and city centres. Focusing on three case studies of urban activism, it contrasts policies and practices that frame the users of urban space as consumers with the marginal acts that seek to assert wider rights to the city. The article shows how ideas of ‘resilience’ have become a stake of struggle in debates over the future of urban centres and urban citizenship, deployed both to defend neoliberal economic configurations and to signal radical transitions towards more participatory and economically autonomous forms of society.
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- 2017
23. Contested spaces of citizenship: camps, borders and urban encounters
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Gaja Maestri and Sarah M. Hughes
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L700 ,L900 ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Gender studies ,Space (commercial competition) ,Solidarity ,0506 political science ,Trace (semiology) ,Politics ,Intersection ,Political economy ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,L200 ,Critical geography ,Sociology ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,Urban space ,media_common - Abstract
As citizenship regulations have tightened across the world, protest and activist movements have also emerged to challenge the violence of border and migration control. Positioned at the intersection of citizenship studies and critical geography, this special issue explores how space is conceived, mobilised, used and, in turn, shaped by these political struggles. The authors argue that citizenship is inextricably and irreducibly spatial, and therefore entangled with the material and discursive dimensions of geographical places and scales. Drawing on a rich set of examples, the contributions of this issue trace how space is actively and strategically used within multiple processes of political subjectivation. Focusing on critical sites through which exclusionary logics materialise – such as camps, borders and the urban space, the papers investigate how marginal(ised) political subjects claim their rights in and through space in different and often ambiguous ways, including contestation and solidarity.
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- 2017
24. Entrepreneurial citizenship in urban regeneration in the Netherlands
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Urban regeneration ,deprived neighbourhoods ,entrepreneurial citizenship ,entrepreneurial society ,active citizenship - Abstract
In the Netherlands, active citizenship in the context of urban regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods seems to have evolved into ‘entrepreneurial citizenship’. The concept of entrepreneurial citizenship combines top-down and bottom-up elements. National and/or local governments promote an ideal citizen with entrepreneurship skills and competencies to create more responsible and entrepreneurial citizens’ participation in government-initiated arrangements. At the same time, bottom-up behavioural practices from citizens who demand more opportunities to innovatively apply assets, entrepreneurial skills, strategies and collaboration with other stakeholders are initiated to achieve their goals and create societal-added value. The aim of this paper is to better understand the origins of ‘entrepreneurial citizenship’, and its meaning in the Dutch context of urban regeneration. To do this, we will review the relevant international literature and combine insights from studies on governance, active citizenship, social and community entrepreneurship and urban neighbourhoods. We will also analyse how entrepreneurial citizenship can be locally observed in the Netherlands as reported in the literature.
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- 2019
25. Denaturalisation and conceptions of citizenship in the ‘war on terror’
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Patrick Sykes
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050502 law ,National security ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Legislation ,0506 political science ,Politics ,Spanish Civil War ,State (polity) ,Dissenting opinion ,Law ,Political Science and International Relations ,Loyalty ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,business ,Citizenship ,0505 law ,media_common - Abstract
The threat of American and British nationals returning home after fighting with ISIS sparked calls in 2014 for legislation to allow the revocation of terror suspects’ citizenship. Using content analysis, this paper compares how citizenship was renegotiated during the debates that followed in both countries. For proponents of the new powers, acts considered prejudicial to national security did not simply constitute a ‘bad’ or dissenting citizen, but were incompatible with the status of citizenship itself. I find that republican discourses of citizenship conceived as loyalty to the state were used not as an alternative to liberal discourses that espouse individual rights and a more limited political arena, but precisely as means of discursively limiting of that arena, by selectively excluding particular undesirable or less desirable groups – terror suspects, naturalised citizens – from political life as we know it.
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- 2016
26. Ethnicizing citizenship, questioning membership. Explaining the decreasing family migration rights of citizens in Europe
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Laura Block, Saskia Bonjour, and Challenges to Democratic Representation (AISSR, FMG)
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Intersectionality ,Family migration ,Inequality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Ethnic group ,Entitlement ,0506 political science ,Law ,Political economy ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,Sociology ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
Received 14 Jul 2015, Accepted 18 Jan 2016, Published online: 01 Jun 2016 Citizenship does not equal belonging. In this paper, we investigate how the disjunction between the ‘imagined community’ and the formal citizenry impacts on citizens’ rights. In particular, we analyse decision-making on the family migration rights of citizens in France, Germany and the Netherlands. Our analysis shows that in these three countries, notwithstanding their different migration and citizenship regimes, the reduction of citizens’ family migration rights is based on the same discursive mechanism: the ‘membership’ of citizens of migrant origin who marry a partner from abroad is called into question. As they are excluded from membership of the imagined community, their entitlement to family migration rights is decreased. Ethnic conceptions of national community, intersecting with gender and class, play a crucial role in shaping the rights attached to citizenship in Europe today.
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- 2016
27. Unfamiliar acts of citizenship: enacting citizenship in vernacular music and language from the space of marginalised intergenerational migration
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Aoileann Ní Mhurchú
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unfamiliar ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Ethnic group ,Identity (social science) ,Resistance (psychoanalysis) ,acts of citizenship ,migration ,resistance ,Politics ,050602 political science & public administration ,music ,Sociology ,Citizenship ,media_common ,language ,vernacular ,05 social sciences ,Vernacular ,Gender studies ,0506 political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,intergenerational ,Ideology ,Liminality ,050703 geography ,Social psychology - Abstract
Conceptualising citizenship as an act rather than a status enables us to rethink the familiarity of both ‘who’ can be a citizen and the type of ‘practices’ that can be understood as citizenship. This paper focuses on unfamiliar practices of citizenship per se by exploring the liminal site from which intergenerational migrant youth resist the taken-for-granted space of citizenship through a turn towards vernacular music and language. It considers how citizenship is resisted here through the unfamiliar act of turning away from either identifying or, failing/refusing to identify with the nation-state. It explores the effect of this move in challenging narrow national linguistic and ethnic ideologies through the development of non-standard language practice and cross-cutting musical styles. It argues that citizenship is enacted in this move by creating a space in vernacular music and language for expressions of hybrid political identity and belonging.
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- 2016
28. These fine lines: locating noncitizenship in political protest in Europe
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Heather L. Johnson
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Subjectivity ,Refugee ,media_common.quotation_subject ,SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0507 social and economic geography ,Agency (philosophy) ,Gender studies ,CONTEST ,Solidarity ,0506 political science ,Politics ,Political economy ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,Transgressive ,Sociology ,050703 geography ,Citizenship ,media_common - Abstract
Since 2012, refugee protest camps and occupations have been established throughout Europe that contest the exclusion of refugees and asylum seekers, but that also make concrete demands for better living conditions and basic rights. It is a movement that is led by migrants as noncitizens, and so reveals new ways of thinking of the political agency and status of noncitizenship not as simply reactive to an absence of citizenship, but as a powerful and transgressive subjectivity in its own right. This paper argues that we should resist collapsing analysis back into the frameworks of citizenship, and instead be attentive to the politics of presence and solidarity manifest in these protest camps as a way of understanding, and engaging, noncitizen activism.
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- 2015
29. ‘They come here to work’: an evaluation of the economic argument in favor of immigrant rights
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Shannon Gleeson
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Immigration ,Framing (social sciences) ,Law ,Political economy ,Political Science and International Relations ,Ethnography ,Narrative ,Sociology ,Enforcement ,Citizenship ,Militarization ,media_common ,Social movement - Abstract
Advocates commonly highlight the exploitation that hard-working undocumented immigrants commonly suffer at the hands of employers, the important contribution they make to the US economy, and the fiscal folly of border militarization and enhanced immigration enforcement policies. In this paper, I unpack these economic rationales for expanding immigrant rights, and examine the nuanced ways in which advocates deploy this frame. To do so, I rely on statements issued by publicly present immigrant rights groups in six places: California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Washington, DC. I also draw on interviews with immigrant advocates in San Jose, CA and Houston, TX, press releases from two alternative national immigrant rights organizations, and an ethnographic photo-documentation of immigrant rights mobilizations in 2012–2014. Economic rationales, I emphasize, can be found in each of these contexts, but are not mutually exclusive to other justifications, including narratives about civil, human, and fa...
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- 2015
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