Building Citizenship from Below
Title | Building Citizenship from Below PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel Paret |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2017-05-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1351725440 |
Focusing on the ‘precarity-agency-migration nexus’, this book leverages the political, economic, and social dynamics of migration to better understand deepening inequality and popular resistance. Drawing on rich ethnographic and interview-based studies of the USA and Latin America, the authors show how migrants are navigating and challenging conditions of insecurity and structures of power. Anchoring the study of migration in the opposition between precarity and agency, the authors provide a new window into the continuously unfolding relationship between national borders, global capitalism, and human freedom. This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.
Building Citizenship
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Citizenship from Below
Title | Citizenship from Below PDF eBook |
Author | Mimi Sheller |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2012-05-07 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0822349531 |
Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship from below" to describe the contest between "proper" spaces of legitimate high politics and the disavowed politics of lived embodiment. While acknowledging the internal contradictions and damaging exclusions of subaltern self-empowerment, Sheller roots out from beneath the historical archive traces of a deeper freedom, one expressed through bodily performances, familial relationships, cultivation of the land, and sacred worship. Attending to the hidden linkages among intimate realms and the public sphere, Sheller explores specific struggles for freedom, including women's political activism in Jamaica; the role of discourses of "manhood" in the making of free subjects, soldiers, and citizens; the fiercely ethnonationalist discourses that excluded South Asian and African indentured workers; the sexual politics of the low-bass beats and "bottoms up" moves in the dancehall; and the struggle for reproductive and LGBT rights and against homophobia in the contemporary Caribbean. Through her creative use of archival sources and emphasis on the connections between intimacy, violence, and citizenship, Sheller enriches critical theories of embodied freedom, sexual citizenship, and erotic agency in all post-slavery societies.
Disputing Citizenship
Title | Disputing Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Clarke, John |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-01-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1447312546 |
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Citizenship is always in dispute – in practice as well as in theory – but conventional perspectives do not address why the concept of citizenship is so contentious. This unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute.The authors dispute the way citizenship is normally conceived and analysed within the social sciences, developing a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle. This view is advanced through an exploration of the entanglements of politics, culture and power that are both embodied and contested in forms and practices of citizenship. This compelling view of citizenship emerges from the international and interdisciplinary collaboration of the four authors, drawing on the diverse disputes over citizenship in their countries of origin (Brazil, France, the UK and the US). The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the field of citizenship, no matter what their geographical, political or academic location.
Building Citizenship: Civics and Economics, Spanish Reading Essentials and Study Guide, Student Workbook
Title | Building Citizenship: Civics and Economics, Spanish Reading Essentials and Study Guide, Student Workbook PDF eBook |
Author | McGraw-Hill |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2012-01-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780076600427 |
Spanish Edition. Reinforce critical concepts from the text and help students improve their reading-for-information skills with this essential resource, written 2-3 grade levels below the Student Edition
Building Citizenship: Civics and Economics, Reading Essentials and Study Guide, Student Workbook
Title | Building Citizenship: Civics and Economics, Reading Essentials and Study Guide, Student Workbook PDF eBook |
Author | McGraw-Hill Education |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2011-07-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780076600083 |
Reinforce critical concepts from the text and help students improve their reading-for-information skills with this essential resource, written 2-3 grade levels below the Student Edition
Mobilizing for Democracy
Title | Mobilizing for Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Vera Schatten Coelho |
Publisher | Zed Books Ltd. |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2013-04-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1848139152 |
Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that are core to the development of democratic politics. No other volume has brought together examples from such a broad Southern spectrum and covering such a diversity of actors: rural and urban dwellers, transnational activists, religious groups, politicians and social leaders. The cases illuminate the crucial contribution that citizen mobilization makes to democratization and the building of state institutions, and reflect the uneasy relationship between citizens and the institutions that are designed to foster their political participation.