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Performing Citizenship - Social Movements across the Globe (Hardcover)
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Performing Citizenship - Social Movements across the Globe (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
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In this book, Tamar Groves and Inbal Ofer explore the effects of
social movements' activism on the changing practices and
conceptions of citizenship. Presenting empirically rich case
studies from Latin America, Asia and Europe, leading experts
analyze the ways in which the shifting balance of power between
nation-state, economy and civil society over the past half century
affected social movements in their choice of addressees and
repertoires of action. Divided into two parts, the first part
focuses on citizenship as a form of political and cultural
participation. The three case studies that make up this section
look into the ways in which social movements' activism prompted a
critical re-evaluation of two central questions: Who can be
considered a citizen? And what forms of political and cultural
participation effectively enable citizens to exercise their rights?
The second section focuses on citizenship as a form of community
building. The three case studies that are included in this section
address the ways in which activism fosters new forms of advocacy
and communication, leading to the emergence of new communities and
assigning qualities of fraternity to the status of citizenship.
Throughout most of the 20th century social movements' literature
focused on the challenges these entities posed to the state, since
it was the state that had the capacity and willingness to grant
social and economic concessions. This situation started to shift in
the late 1960s. By the 1980s the existing configuration between the
state, civil society and the economy was increasingly challenged by
market penetration. Accordingly, we witness a proliferation of
social movements that no longer target state institutions, or do so
only partially. Their repertoires of action interact continuously
with everyday practices, re-shaping demands within specific
organizational, legislative and political contexts. As a result,
such activism expands the understanding of the concept of
citizenship so as to include demands relating to livelihood;
division of resources; the production and dissemination of
knowledge; and forms of civic participation and solidarity. Written
for scholars who study social movements, citizenship and the
relationship between the state and civil society over the past half
century, this book provides a fresh insight on the nature of
citizenship; increasingly framing the condition of being a citizen
in terms of performance and on-going practices, rather than simply
in relation to the attainment of a formal status.
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