The Anthropology of Citizenship

A Reader

Lazar, Sian (Editor)

Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

1. Edition November 2013
344 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-118-41291-6

John Wiley & Sons

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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

Introduction 1
Sian Lazar

Part I Theoretical Foundations 23

Introduction 25

I.1 Civic Republican Traditions 27

1 The Democratic Citizen 29
Pericles

2 The Politics 31
Aristotle

3 The Social Contract, 1762 35
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

4 The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, 1951 38
Hannah Arendt

I.2 Liberal Traditions 41

5 Two Treatises of Government, 1689 43
John Locke

6 Declaration of the Rights of Man, France, 1789 47

7 The Second Constitution of Haiti (Hayti), May 20, 1805 49

8 Citizenship and Social Class, 1950 52
T. H. Marshall

The Liberal-Communitarian Debate 61

9 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference, 1986 63
Iris Marion Young

I.3 Constructing an Anthropology of Citizenship 73

10 Cultural Citizenship in San Jose, California, 1994 75
Renato Rosaldo

11 Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States, 1996 79
Aihwa Ong

12 Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship, 1999 93
James Holston

Part II Ethnographic Explorations 99

II.1 Citizenship Regimes, Subject-Formation and the State 101

Introduction 103

13 Education for Credit: Development as Citizenship Project in Bolivia, 2004 107
Sian Lazar

14 Producing Good Citizens: Languages, Bodies, Emotions, 2008 120
Véronique Benei

15 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations, 2004 139
Adriana Petryna

Inclusive Citizenship and Claims-Making from Below 147

16 Reframing Agrarian Citizenship: Land, Life and Power in Brazil, 2009 149
Hannah Wittman

17 Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship, 2010 163
Vinh-Kim Nguyen

II.2 Citizenship beyond the Nation-State 177

Introduction 179

18 The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, En-Gendering Diaspora, 2005 181
Lok C. D. Siu

19 Transborder Citizenship: An Outcome of Legal Pluralism within Transnational Social Fields, 2005 196
Nina Glick Schiller

20 Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice and Political Identification in Gaza, 2007 208
Ilana Feldman

Urban Citizenship 227

21 The Implosion of Modern Public Life, 2000 229
Teresa P. R. Caldeira

22 Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market, 1999 248
Dorothy J. Solinger

II.3 The Citizen and the Non-citizen 267

Introduction 269

23 The War of 'Who is Who': Autochthony, Nationalism and Citizenship in the Ivoirian Crisis, 2006 271
Ruth Marshall-Fratani

24 Practicing German Citizenship, 2008 292
Ruth Mandel

25 The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant 'Illegality', 2005 309
Nicholas de Genova

Index 326

"Lazar should be commended for her impressive introduction to the volume, which is in itself a valuable introduction to the anthropology of citizenship." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 February 2015)

"The core chapters of this reader are a testament to the vital contribution anthropologists have made to citizenship studies and provide a substantive overview for beginners and experts alike."
--Engin Isin, The Open University

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).

S. Lazar, Cambridge University, UK