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The Performativity of Urban Citizenship [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2010 In this analysis I examine how Dominican grocery-store owners ( bodegueros) in Philadelphia gain the ability to operate corner stores in predominantly African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods where they are often considered to be outsiders. A central element of the survival strategy of the grocers is to bend over backwards in order to serve ...
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Platform Urbanization and the Impact on Urban Transformation and Citizenship
South Atlantic Quarterly, 2021Many of the defining characteristics of the urban are shifting to virtual platforms. This process imbues all dimensions of urban life, from governance to politics and participation. During the global pandemic and the lockdown in many countries, this shift has gathered speed and is changing the way we communicate and work, challenging the everyday life ...
Naomi C. Hanakata, Filippo Bignami
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Citizenship Studies, 2003
The rise of the nation-state has meant a disempowerment of cities as autonomous polities. This paper argues that urban citizenship should be freed from constraints imposed by national and state-centered conceptions of political community. The focus of the argument is on constitutional politics that would strengthen local self-government by redefining ...
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The rise of the nation-state has meant a disempowerment of cities as autonomous polities. This paper argues that urban citizenship should be freed from constraints imposed by national and state-centered conceptions of political community. The focus of the argument is on constitutional politics that would strengthen local self-government by redefining ...
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Urban Citizenship in der Schweiz:
2021Die Veränderung von ökonomischen, sozialen und kulturellen Gegebenheiten im Zuge der Globalisierung haben zu einem Bedeutungsverlust der Staatsbürger*innenschaft geführt. Dies wurde von akademischer und aktivistischer Seite zum Anlass genommen, alternative Zugehörigkeitskonzepte wie Urban Citizenship zu entwickeln, welches Bürger*innenrechte vom ...
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Urban scenes of citizenship: inventing the possibility of immigrants’ citizenship in Athens
Citizenship Studies, 2017AbstractCities have always offered multiple spatial settings for human acts that question existing order and create new forms of citizenship. Keeping in mind the Arendtian definition of citizenship as a superior ‘right to have rights’, this paper explores the emergence of scenes of citizenship in contemporary Athens, with regard to the public ...
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State, citizenship, and the urban poor
Citizenship Studies, 2011This paper examines the dynamic, moving relationship between three concepts – those of life, law, and exception. Following a brief exposition of these concepts, this paper provides an ethnography of struggles over housing waged by the urban poor in a squatter colony in Noida that adjoins the city of Delhi, India. I argue that each concept in this triad
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Contested Urban Citizenship in Kenya
2023Access to the social and political means of citizenship is a distinct expectation of those living and working in Nairobi’s urban informality. In an empirical analysis based on original survey data comparing rural and urban Kenya and focus-group discussions in informal settlements of Nairobi, this book shows that expectations of accessing public goods ...
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Active Citizenship and Urban Governance
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1992British Conservative Governments of the late 1980s and early 1990s have promoted a strategy of 'active citizenship' as a means of fostering greater citizen responsibility for both the direct provision and management of public and welfare services. This strategy has been allied to objectives both of restructuring the welfare state through an increased ...
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Participatory Governance and Urban Citizenship
2002Participatory governance and urban citizenship belong to different, even conflicting traditions in political thinking Whereas governance goes beyond the state referring to the systematic opening of politics for civil society actors the concept of citizenship is state-centred describing first of all rights and obligations guaranteed by the state.
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