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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 b

    Trade Review

    "Lazar should be commended for her impressive introduction to the volume, which is in itself a valuable introduction to the anthropology of citizenship." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 February 2015)



    Table of Contents

    Introduction 1
    Sian Lazar

    Part I Theoretical Foundations 23

    Introduction 25

    I.1 Civic Republican Traditions 27

    1 The Democratic Citizen 29
    Pericles

    2 The Politics 31
    Aristotle

    3 The Social Contract, 1762 35
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    4 The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, 1951 38
    Hannah Arendt

    I.2 Liberal Traditions 41

    5 Two Treatises of Government, 1689 43
    John Locke

    6 Declaration of the Rights of Man, France, 1789 47

    7 The Second Constitution of Haiti (Hayti), May 20, 1805 49

    8 Citizenship and Social Class, 1950 52
    T. H. Marshall

    The Liberal–Communitarian Debate 61

    9 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference, 1986 63
    Iris Marion Young

    I.3 Constructing an Anthropology of Citizenship 73

    10 Cultural Citizenship in San Jose, California, 1994 75
    Renato Rosaldo

    11 Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States, 1996 79
    Aihwa Ong

    12 Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship, 1999 93
    James Holston

    Part II Ethnographic Explorations 99

    II.1 Citizenship Regimes, Subject-Formation and the State 101

    Introduction 103

    13 Education for Credit: Development as Citizenship Project in Bolivia, 2004 107
    Sian Lazar

    14 Producing Good Citizens: Languages, Bodies, Emotions, 2008 120
    Véronique Benei

    15 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations, 2004 139
    Adriana Petryna

    Inclusive Citizenship and Claims-Making from Below 147

    16 Reframing Agrarian Citizenship: Land, Life and Power in Brazil, 2009 149
    Hannah Wittman

    17 Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship, 2010 163
    Vinh-Kim Nguyen

    II.2 Citizenship beyond the Nation-State 177

    Introduction 179

    18 The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, En-Gendering Diaspora, 2005 181
    Lok C. D. Siu

    19 Transborder Citizenship: An Outcome of Legal Pluralism within Transnational Social Fields, 2005 196
    Nina Glick Schiller

    20 Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice and Political Identification in Gaza, 2007 208
    Ilana Feldman

    Urban Citizenship 227

    21 The Implosion of Modern Public Life, 2000 229
    Teresa P. R. Caldeira

    22 Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market, 1999 248
    Dorothy J. Solinger

    II.3 The Citizen and the Non-citizen 267

    Introduction 269

    23 The War of ‘Who is Who’: Autochthony, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Ivoirian Crisis, 2006 271
    Ruth Marshall-Fratani

    24 Practicing German Citizenship, 2008 292
    Ruth Mandel

    25 The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant ‘Illegality’, 2005 309
    Nicholas de Genova

    Index 326

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 01/11/2013
      ISBN13: 9781118412916, 978-1118412916
      ISBN10: 1118412915

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 b

        Trade Review

        "Lazar should be commended for her impressive introduction to the volume, which is in itself a valuable introduction to the anthropology of citizenship." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 February 2015)



        Table of Contents

        Introduction 1
        Sian Lazar

        Part I Theoretical Foundations 23

        Introduction 25

        I.1 Civic Republican Traditions 27

        1 The Democratic Citizen 29
        Pericles

        2 The Politics 31
        Aristotle

        3 The Social Contract, 1762 35
        Jean-Jacques Rousseau

        4 The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, 1951 38
        Hannah Arendt

        I.2 Liberal Traditions 41

        5 Two Treatises of Government, 1689 43
        John Locke

        6 Declaration of the Rights of Man, France, 1789 47

        7 The Second Constitution of Haiti (Hayti), May 20, 1805 49

        8 Citizenship and Social Class, 1950 52
        T. H. Marshall

        The Liberal–Communitarian Debate 61

        9 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference, 1986 63
        Iris Marion Young

        I.3 Constructing an Anthropology of Citizenship 73

        10 Cultural Citizenship in San Jose, California, 1994 75
        Renato Rosaldo

        11 Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States, 1996 79
        Aihwa Ong

        12 Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship, 1999 93
        James Holston

        Part II Ethnographic Explorations 99

        II.1 Citizenship Regimes, Subject-Formation and the State 101

        Introduction 103

        13 Education for Credit: Development as Citizenship Project in Bolivia, 2004 107
        Sian Lazar

        14 Producing Good Citizens: Languages, Bodies, Emotions, 2008 120
        Véronique Benei

        15 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations, 2004 139
        Adriana Petryna

        Inclusive Citizenship and Claims-Making from Below 147

        16 Reframing Agrarian Citizenship: Land, Life and Power in Brazil, 2009 149
        Hannah Wittman

        17 Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship, 2010 163
        Vinh-Kim Nguyen

        II.2 Citizenship beyond the Nation-State 177

        Introduction 179

        18 The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, En-Gendering Diaspora, 2005 181
        Lok C. D. Siu

        19 Transborder Citizenship: An Outcome of Legal Pluralism within Transnational Social Fields, 2005 196
        Nina Glick Schiller

        20 Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice and Political Identification in Gaza, 2007 208
        Ilana Feldman

        Urban Citizenship 227

        21 The Implosion of Modern Public Life, 2000 229
        Teresa P. R. Caldeira

        22 Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market, 1999 248
        Dorothy J. Solinger

        II.3 The Citizen and the Non-citizen 267

        Introduction 269

        23 The War of ‘Who is Who’: Autochthony, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Ivoirian Crisis, 2006 271
        Ruth Marshall-Fratani

        24 Practicing German Citizenship, 2008 292
        Ruth Mandel

        25 The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant ‘Illegality’, 2005 309
        Nicholas de Genova

        Index 326

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