Title & Author:

Cities and citizenship / James Holston, editor.

Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.

Description:

viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"A public culture book"--Page opposite title page.
"The text of this book was originally published without the preface, index, and essays by Thomas Bender and James Holston as Public culture 8, no. 2 (winter 1996)"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: cities and citizenship / James Holston and Arjun Appadurai -- Intellectuals, cities, and citizenship in the United States: the 1800s 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 -- São Paulo: photographic essay / Cristiano Mascaro -- Fortified enclaves: the new urban segregation / Teresa P.R. Caldeira -- Genealogy: Lincoln Steffens on New York / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Christopher Kamrath -- Spaces of insurgent citizenship / James Holston -- 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.

Summary:

Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. For most of the modern era the nation and not the city has been the principal domain of citizenship. This volume demonstrates, however, that cities are especially salient sites for examining the current renegotiations of citizenship, democracy, and national belonging. Just as relations between nations are changing in the current phase of global capitalism, so too are relations between nations and cities. Written by internationally prominent scholars, the essays in Cities and Citizenship propose that 'place' remains fundamental to these changes and that cities are crucial places for the development of new alignments of local and global identity. Through case studies from Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America, the volume shows how cities make manifest national and transnational realignments of citizenship and how they generate new possibilities for democratic politics that transform people as citizens. Previously published as a special issue of Public Culture that won the 1996 Best Single Issue of a Journal Award from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, the collection showcases a photo essay by Cristiano Mascaro, as well as two new essays by James Holston and Thomas Bender.

ISBN:

0822322544 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822322542 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822322749 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780822322740 (paper ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sociology, Urban Case studies.
Cities and towns Case studies.
Urban policy Case studies.
Sociologie urbaine Cas, Études de.
Villes Cas, Études de.
Politique urbaine Cas, Études de.
Sociologie urbaine Études de cas.
Villes Études de cas.
Politique urbaine Études de cas.
71.14 urban society.
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban policy.
Steden.
Burgerschap.
Stadscultuur.
stedelijke samenleving
urban society
stedelijke bevolking
urban population
globalisering
globalization
steden
towns
burgers
citizens
Urban Society
Stedelijke samenleving

Form/genre:

Case studies.

Added entries:

Holston, James.
Public culture (Durham, N.C.)
Public culture books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204844
Call No.: HT119 .C28 1998
Status: Available