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The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader

ISBN: 978-1-118-42445-2

November 2013

Wiley-Blackwell

352 pages

Description

The Anthropology of Citizenship introduces the theoretical foundations of and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world, in local, national and global contexts. Key readings provide a cross-cultural perspective on citizenship practices, and an individual citizen’s relationship with the state.

  • Introduces a range of exciting and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world
  • Provides key readings for students and researchers who wish to gain an understanding of citizenship practices, and an individual’s relationship with the state in a global context
  • Offers an anthropological perspective on citizenship, the self and political agency, with a focus on encounters between citizens and the state in education, law, development, and immigration policy
  • Provides students with an understanding of the theoretical foundations of citizenship, as characterized by liberal and civic republican ideas of political belonging and exclusion
  • Explores how citizenship is constructed at different scales and in different spaces
  • Twenty-five key writings identify what is a new and vibrant subfield within politics and anthropological research
About the Author

Sian Lazar has been a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge since 2005. She is the author of El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (2008), and is co-author, with Maxine Molyneux, of Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-Based Development and Latin American NGOs (2003).