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An expanded edition of the Public Culture special issue, which explores current meanings and contestations of citizenship in relation to the urban experience.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction: Cities and Citizenship / James Holston and Arjun Appadurai
Part One Cities and the Making of Citizens
Intellectuals, Cities, and Citizenship in the United States: The 1890s and 1990s / Thomas Bender
Urban Youth and Senegalese Politics: Dakar 1988-1994 / Mamadou Diouf
Islamic Modernities? Citizenship, Civil Society, and Islamism in a Nigerian City / Michael Watts
Sao Paulo: Photographic Essay / Cristiano Mascaro
Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation / Theresa P. R. Caldeira
Genealogy: Lincoln Steffens on New York / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Christopher Kamrath
Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship / James Holston
Part Two Cities and Transnational Formations
Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims / Saskia Sassen
Is European Citizenship Possible? / Etienne Balibar
Violence, Culture, and Democracy: A European Perspective / Michel Wieviorka
From the Atlas to the Alps: Chronicle of a Moroccan Migration / Marco Jacquemet
Contributors
Index
About the author
James Holston is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at San Diego. He is the author of The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília.
Summary
Offers a collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. This volume demonstrates, however, that cities are especially salient sites for examining the renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging.
