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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.
