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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 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

The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/11/2013
    ISBN13: 9781118424452, 978-1118424452
    ISBN10: 111842445X

    Number of Pages: 352

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    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

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