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This book examines the changing character of European citizenship, focusing on 'acts' of citizenship.

This book focuses on the controversial and neglected theme of citizenship. It examines the changing role of citizens, their rights, obligations and responsibilities and the issue of accountability in a global society.

Engin F. Isin and the volume's contributors explore the social sites that have become objects of government, and considers how these subjects are sites of contestation, resistance, differentiation and identification.

This book introduces the concept "acts of citizenship" in order to re-orientate the way citizenship studies has been investigated over the last decade. The authors argue that investigating acts of citizenship in terms irreducible to either status or practice, while still valuing this distinction, requires a focus on those moments and processes whereby subjects constitute themselves as citizens. Their investigation involves a sustained engageme...

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Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City focuses on the controversial, neglected theme of citizenship. It examines the changing role of citizens, their rights, obligations and responsibilities as members of nation-states and the issue of accountability in a global society. Using this interdisciplinary approach, the book offers an innovative collection of work from Robert A. Beauregard, Anna Bounds, Janine Brodie, Richard Dagger, Gerard Delan...

The contributions of Woodiwiss, Lister and Sassen are outstanding but not unrepresentative of the many merits of this excellent collection'- The British Journal of Sociology From women's rights, civil rights, and sexual rights for gays and lesbians to disability rights and language rights, we have experienced in the past few decades a major trend in Western nation-states towards new claims for inclusion. This trend has echoed around the world...

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This book introduces the concept "acts of citizenship" in order to re-orientate the way citizenship studies has been investigated over the last decade. The authors argue that investigating acts of citizenship in terms irreducible to either status or practice, while still valuing this distinction, requires a focus on those moments and processes whereby subjects constitute themselves as citizens. Their investigation involves a sustained engageme...

Engin F. Isin and the volume's contributors explore the social sites that have become objects of government, and considers how these subjects are sites of contestation, resistance, differentiation and identification.

Through a detailed introductory discussion of the relation between the civil and the political, and between recognition and representation, this book provides a comprehensive vocabulary for understanding citizenship. It uses the work of T H Marshall to frame the critical interrogation of how ethnic, technological, ecological, cosmopolitan, sexual and cultural rights relate to citizenship. The authors show how the civil, political and social me...

Through a detailed introductory discussion of the relation between the civil and the political, and between recognition and representation, this book provides a comprehensive vocabulary for understanding citizenship. It uses the work of T H Marshall to frame the critical interrogation of how ethnic, technological, ecological, cosmopolitan, sexual and cultural rights relate to citizenship. The authors show how the civil, political and social me...