The articles in this special issue start from the premise that citizenship is more than the legal status of member of a national political community with certain rights and responsibilities (Marshall, 1983). We contend that citizenship is an important and helpful way of framing anthropological enquiry into politics. The authors ask how citizenship is experienced in any given context, and thereby explore how particular political communities and political agency are constituted.
AlbroR(2005) ‘The water is ours, Carajo!' deep citizenship in Bolivia's water war. In: NashJ (eds) Social Movements. An Anthropological Reader, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 249–271.
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BaitenmannH(2005) Counting on state subjects: state formation and citizenship in twentieth-century Mexico. In: Krohn-HansenCNustadKG (eds) State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture, and Society), London-Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, pp. 171–194.
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CastleT (2008) Sexual citizenship: articulating citizenship, identity, and the pursuit of the good life in urban Brazil. PoLAR31(1): 118–133.
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Castoriadis C (1992) Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy. D. Curtis, transl. New York: Oxford University Press.
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ChatterjeeP (2006) The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures), New York: Columbia University Press.
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CodyF (2009) Inscribing subjects to citizenship: petitions, literacy activism, and the performativity of signature in rural Tamil India. Cultural Anthropology24(3): 347–380.
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CruikshankB (1999) The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects, Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press.
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DagninoE (2003) Citizenship in Latin America. Special Issue. Latin American Perspectives30(2).
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EnglundH (2006) Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology), Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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FeldmanI (2007) Difficult distinctions: refugee law, humanitarian practice, and political identification in Gaza. Cultural Anthropology22(1): 129–169.
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HeaterD (1999) What is Citizenship?, Cambridge: Polity Press.
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HolstonJ (2008) Insurgent Citizenship. Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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IsinE (2009) Citizenship in flux: the figure of the activist citizen. Subjectivity29: 367–388.
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LazarS (2008) El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia, Durham: Duke University Press.
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LazarS (2010) Schooling and critical citizenship: pedagogies of political agency in El Alto, Bolivia. Anthropology and Education Quarterly41(2): 181–205.
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LukoseR (2005) Empty citizenship: protesting politics in the era of globalization. Cultural Anthropology20(4): 506–533.
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LuykxA (1999) The Citizen Factory. Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia, New York: State University of New York Press.
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MandelR (2008) Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany, Durham: Duke University Press.
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MarshallTH(1983 [1950]) Citizenship and social class. In: HeldD (eds) States and Societies, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 248–260.
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NguyenV-K(2005) Antiretroviral globalism, biopolitics, and therapeutic citizenship. In: OngACollierS (eds) Global Assemblages. Technology, Poltics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 124–144.
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OldfieldA (1990) Citizenship and Community: Civic Republicanism and the Modern World, London-New York: Routledge.
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OngA (1996) Cultural citizenship as subject-making: immigrants negotiate racial and cultural boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology37(5): 737–762.
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OngA (1999) Flexible Citizenship. The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, Durham: Duke University Press.
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OngA (2003) Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, The New America, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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OngA (2006) Neoliberal as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty, Durham: Duke University Press.
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PetrynaA (2002) Life Exposed. Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Roth-GordonJ (2009) The language that came down the hill: slang, crime, and citizenship in Rio de Janeiro. American Anthropologist111(1): 57–68.
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SørensenBR (2008) The politics of citizenship and difference in Sri Lankan schools. Anthropology & Education Quarterly39(4): 423–443.
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WittmanH (2009) Reworking the metabolic rift: La Via Campesina, agrarian citizenship, and food sovereignty. Journal of Peasant Studies36(4): 805–826.
