Disputing Citizenship

“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

John Clarke is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the UK’s Open University. His work explores the intersections of citizenship, nations, states and welfare

Kathleen Coll is a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University whose research focuses on issues of immigration, gender, and cultural citizenship in the US.

Evelina Dagnino is Professor of Political Science at the University of Campinas, Brazil. A leading international scholar, she is also a member of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Board and the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University, UK.

Catherine Neveu is Directrice de Recherche, IIAC/TRAM (Transformations Radicales des Mondes Contemporains) (CNRS-EHESS), Paris. Her work centres on elaborating an anthropological approach to citizenship.

Preface;

Introduction;

Recentering citizenship;

Decentering citizenship;

Imagining the ‘communities’ of citizenship;

Conclusion: Disputing citizenship.