The idea of citizenship is widely used in daily life.
Citizenship tests are used to determine who can inhabit a country;
citizen charters have been used to prescribe levels of service
provision; citizens juries are used in planning or policy
enquiries; citizenship lessons are taught in schools; youth
organisations attempt often aim to instil good citizenship; active
citizens are encouraged to contribute voluntary effort to their
local communities and campaigners may use citizens rights to
achieve their goals. What is meant by citizenship is never static
and the subject of debate by academics, politicians and activists.
These ideas are manifest and contested at a range of different
scales.
This book therefore argues geography is crucial to understanding
citizenship. The text is organised around a number of spatial
themes to examine how spatialities of citizenship are played out at
a range of scales. Ideas about locality, boundaries, mobility,
networks, rurality and globalisation are used to reveal the
importance of space and place in the constitution, contestation and
performance of citizenship. In doing so, the book reveals how
different ideas of citizenship can include or exclude people from
society and space. Consideration is given to ways in which
different groups have sought to empower themselves through various
actions associated with and beyond conventional notions of
citizenship.
Written in an accessible way with detailed case studies to
illustrate conceptual ideas and approaches, this book offers social
scientists new spatial perspectives on citizenship while also
bridging together strands of social, cultural and political
geography in ways that deepen understandings of people and
place."
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