Description
Book SynopsisThis unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute. The authors develop a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle through an exploration of the entanglements of politics, culture and power that are both embodied and contested in forms and practices of citizenship.
Trade Review“This book provides an innovative and critical approach to thinking about citizenship as a key word always in dispute, whose ethnographic orientation will appeal to many undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to researchers.” Dr Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, University of Manchester
"A major contribution to critical thinking about citizenship that takes its political, contentious, and cultural aspects seriously and playfully, through brilliantly nuanced discussions." Engin Isin, Professor of Citizenship, The Open University
Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Recentering citizenship; Decentering citizenship; Imagining the ‘communities’ of citizenship; Conclusion: Disputing citizenship.
