The Anthropology of Citizenship A Reader

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

Sian Lazar has been a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge since 2005. She is the author of El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (2008), and is co-author, with Maxine Molyneux, of Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-Based Development and Latin American NGOs (2003).

1. The Democratic Citizen
Pericles

2. The Politics
Aristotle

3. The Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau

4. The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man
Hannah Arendt

5. Two Treatises of Government
John Locke

6. 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man

7. The 1805 Constitution of Haiti
Jacques Dessalines

8. Citizenship and Social Class
T. H. Marshall

9. The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference. in Feminism/Postmodernism
Iris Marion Young
 
10. Cultural Citizenship in San Jose, California
Renato Rosaldo
 
11. Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply]
Aihwa Ong

12. Spaces of insurgent citizenship. In Cities and Citizenship
James Holston

13. Education for Credit: Development as Citizenship Project in Bolivi
Sian Lazar

14. Schooling Passions. Nation, History, and Language in Contemporary Western India
Véronique Benei

15. Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations
Adriana Petryna

16. Reframing agrarian citizenship: Land, life and power in Brazil
Hannah Wittman

17. The Republic of Therapy. Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
 
18. Memories of a Future Home
Lok C. D. Siu

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

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

21. City of Walls: Crime, Segregation and Citizenship in Sao Paulo
Teresa P. R. Caldeira
 
22. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China
Dorothy J. Solinger

23. "The war of 'Who is Who': Autochthony, Nationalism, and Citizenship in the Ivoirian Crisis
Ruth Marshall-Fratani

24. Cosmopolitan anxieties: Turkish challenges to citizenship and belonging in Germany
Ruth Mandel

25. Working the Boundaries. Race, Space, and 'Illegality' in Mexican Chicago
Nicholas de Genova

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