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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Concepts of individual and global citizenship have flourished in recent years and Sian Lazar's timely reader introduces cutting-edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world. This collection brings together twenty-five critical essays that offer crucial insights for students and researchers into the historical developments of citizenship, and contemporary relationships between people, the state, and the law from a cross-cultural perspective. The Anthropology of Citizenship discusses some of the most important pieces in the political philosophy and anthropological theory of the theme, exploring the historical development of understandings of citizenship and its variability across the world.Lazar offers readings in Part I that highlight contemporary thinking on citizenship through key political and anthropological theorists. Part II reveals the rich ethnographic record available on political processes and citizenship, illuminating the relationship between citizens and the state, and between citizens, the state and non-citizens. The contributors demonstrate the potential for the anthropology of citizenship to make exciting contributions to anthropology, political economy, sociology and social theory. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1Sian LazarPart I Theoretical Foundations 23Introduction 25I.1 Civic Republican Traditions 271 The Democratic Citizen 29Pericles2 The Politics 31Aristotle3 The Social Contract, 1762 35Jean-Jacques Rousseau4 The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, 1951 38Hannah ArendtI.2 Liberal Traditions 415 Two Treatises of Government, 1689 43John Locke6 Declaration of the Rights of Man, France, 1789 477 The Second Constitution of Haiti (Hayti), May 20, 1805 498 Citizenship and Social Class, 1950 52T. H. MarshallThe Liberal-Communitarian Debate 619 The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference, 1986 63Iris Marion YoungI.3 Constructing an Anthropology of Citizenship 7310 Cultural Citizenship in San Jose, California, 1994 75Renato Rosaldo11 Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States, 1996 79Aihwa Ong12 Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship, 1999 93James HolstonPart II Ethnographic Explorations 99II.1 Citizenship Regimes, Subject-Formation and the State 101Introduction 10313 Education for Credit: Development as Citizenship Project in Bolivia, 2004 107Sian Lazar14 Producing Good Citizens: Languages, Bodies, Emotions, 2008 120Véronique Benei15 Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations, 2004 139Adriana PetrynaInclusive Citizenship and Claims-Making from Below 14716 Reframing Agrarian Citizenship: Land, Life and Power in Brazil, 2009 149Hannah Wittman17 Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship, 2010 163Vinh-Kim NguyenII.2 Citizenship beyond the Nation-State 177Introduction 17918 The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, En-Gendering Diaspora, 2005 181Lok C. D. Siu19 Transborder Citizenship: An Outcome of Legal Pluralism within Transnational Social Fields, 2005 196Nina Glick Schiller20 Difficult Distinctions: Refugee Law, Humanitarian Practice and Political Identifica...
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"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)
