Pleasure and danger: the paradoxical spaces of sexual citizenship
Spaces of citizenship
Behaviour ; Citizenship ; Community ; Social geography
The spaces of citizenship are considered in relation to sexuality. Various articulations of sexual citizenship, through consumption and activism, are considered in relation to critiques of citizenship theory. Between public and private, between sin
and crime, the citizen-pervert lives out a paradoxical geography which destabilizes the surrounding hegemonic discourse on both sexualities and citizenship.
Citizenship for some but not for others: spaces of citizenship in contemporary Europe
Spaces of citizenship
Citizenship ; Community ; Ethnic group ; Europe ; Immigration ; Political geography ; Social movement ; Territoriality
The A. outlines the different models and traditions of citizenship and their re-evaluations in Europe. Critiques directed towards the capacity of formal models of citizenship are examined, to respond first to the growing rejection of immigrants
Transnational citizenship, dissent and the political geographies of youth
Afghanistan ; Citizenship ; Human rights ; Identity ; Iraq ; Political geography ; Social geography ; Terrorism ; United Kingdom ; War ; Young people
This paper brings a relational perspective to studies of citizenship beyond national borders. Analysing the responses of 16 to 19-year-old young people in Bradford (UK) to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it demonstrates the complex entanglements
of young people’s lives with international politics and develop a relational conceptualisation of citizenship. It shows that youth citizenship across and beyond national borders evolves from specific lines of connection and disconnection that are actualised
and modified inperformances of citizenship identities, giving rise to diverse political positions and dissent, both with the state and between young people. We conclude with some suggestions for translating these ideas into youth citizenship practices.
Active citizenship and local governance: political and geographical dimensions
Spaces of citizenship
Citizenship ; Community ; Democracy ; Local policy ; Organization ; Participation ; Political geography ; Social group ; United Kingdom ; Urban district
This paper discusses the possibility of a participatory form of democracy emerging in the UK aout of the confluence of active citizenship and local governance and through reform of the state and civil society. Both the citizen's inclination
Law and order policy and the spaces of citizenship in contemporary Britain
Spaces of citizenship
Citizenship ; Criminality ; Great Britain ; Ideology ; Legislation ; Political geography ; Public order ; Security ; United Kingdom
for the meaning of citizenship in Britain (by enhancing a sense of individual responsability for the welfare of community). Particular pieces of recent legislation are outlined.
Educating for religious citizenship : multiculturalism and national identity in an English multi-faith primary school
Citizenship ; Education ; Enquiry ; Great Britain ; Multiculturalism ; National identity ; Primary education ; Religion ; United Kingdom
The article draws attention to the issue of religious citizenship as an important era of study for geographers. The model of religious citizenship that is provided and promoted by the school is considered. The significance of procedural liberalism
Blacks ; Citizenship ; Community ; Garden ; Inner city ; Neo liberalism ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urbanization ; Wisconsin
This paper investigates urban community gardens as spaces of citizenship through a case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It examines the impacts of community gardens on citizenship practice and the effects of volunteerism on the development
, collaborative governance, and citizenship practice.
struggle through which production line workers deployed their peripheral location and ethno-class identities to make claims for and enact their citizenship (at work). Under constant threats of downsizing, precariatized industrial workers in privatized
factories experience a restless citizenship, a ceaseless battle to secure their jobs through what might be called the work of citizenship.
Citizenship, nationality and ethnic minorities in three European nations
Special issue: Cities and citizenship
Citizenship ; Comparative study ; Ethnic community ; Ethnicity ; France ; Germany ; Minority ; Nationality ; Territoriality ; United Kingdom ; Urban society
Citizenship, partnership, and the popular restructuring of U.K. urban space
Citizenship ; Ideology ; Liberalism ; Local development ; Local government ; Partnership ; Political power ; Standard of living ; United Kingdom ; Urban area ; Urban policy ; Urban society
The pursuit of market-dominated urban policies has marginalized large sections of the population who have remained untouched by the benefits of national economic growth. The concepts of citizenship and partnership are central to the doctrine
Asylum and the post-political : domopolitics, depoliticisation and acts of citizenship
Asylum seeking ; Citizenship ; Political geography ; United Kingdom
This paper explores the ways in which practices of asylum governance serve to depoliticise those seeking asylum in the UK. First, it analyses irregular migrant's “acts of citizenship”, and suggests that such prosaic acts can be powerful forms
Special issue: identities, citizenship and power in the cities
Citizenship ; Community ; Cooperation ; Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Information ; Labour migration ; Local authority ; Local development ; Local policy ; Network ; Participation ; Partnership ; Regulation theory ; Social life ; Socio
There is a rise of the study of the city as a source of our identities. Urban identities in late modern society are being interconnected with the restoration of ideas of citizenship and of civic society. An important part of urban studies
is concerned with theorising the nature of power in the cities. There is a need for marginal groups to capture conceptions of citizenship. The papers point towards the continuing importance of political economy approaches and the ability of such approaches
Navigating the boundaries of active global citizenship
Citizenship ; Participation ; Social geography
difference in volunteers' conceptions of global citizenship before and after international service. However, those who hold cosmopolitan views about the need for global governance have a higher sense of efficacy that participation in national spaces may
affect global change. Findings suggest that global citizens may maintain an active civic identity rooted in overlapping locations. In addition, heightened notions of global citizenship appear to have a significant effect on returned volunteers' interest
Behaviour ; Citizenship ; Colorado ; Community ; Democracy ; Economic restructuring ; Local policy ; Organization ; Participation ; Social geography ; Social group ; Social theory ; United States