Building Community Citizens: Claiming the Right to Place-making in the City

Lepofsky, Jonathan; Fraser, Jim

doi:10.1080/00420980220080201

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“…The multi-layered components of citizenship should be studied by "acts of citizenship", a term coined by Isin (2009) in order to describe political activism in contentious politics (cf., Janoschka & Sequera, 2011). According to him, the "acts of citizenship" become effective across social and political demarcations in order to build new political landscapes for national and international activism, feminist rights movements (Yuval-Davis, 1997), or urban place making (Lepovsky & Frazer, 2003;Youkhana, 2014b). Thus, the actors of citizenship are not necessarily those who hold the citizenship or a passport.…”

Section: Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

Youkhana

2015

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The study of belonging, its underlying notions, and the politics of belonging shows that social, political, and territorial demarcations are still based on essentialist conceptions of the collective. These are often applied and reproduced in the social sciences as a result of methodological nationalism. Space-sensitive studies of migration and globalization and a return to the material have recently challenged social constructivist lines of argumentation and have provoked a conceptual shift from analytical categories with inherent spatiality, territoriality, and boundary marking to concepts based on movement and flow. In this paper the analysis of belonging and the related politics of belonging in migration studies incorporates space as an analytical category that cross-cuts established categorizations such as race, class, gender, and stage in the life cycle, and integrates a material semiotic perspective more systematically into the study of social relations at the intersection of the social categories mentioned. A new concept of belonging is defined which reflects the complex relations that individuals have with other people, circulating objects, artefacts, and changing social, political, and cultural landscapes, thus mirroring both the material conditions and the underlying power relations. Such an understanding of belonging proceeds from social naturalizations and fixations to the multiplicity and situatedness of individual attachments, which entangle social, imagined, and sensual-material relations that are constantly re-articulated and re-negotiated by actors in their day-to-day practices. In such a reading, belonging comes into being as a result of individual life stories, versatile contexts, and situated experiences and acts. In times of constant exchange through travel, mass media, and communication technologies, the conceptualization of belonging questions established sociocultural and political demarcations, indicates the compatibility of ascribed socio-cultural difference and stresses the permeability of borderlines. A space-sensitive theorization of social relations and belonging opens up new perspectives on the question of how social collectives are naturalized and by whom, and under which conditions they open up to new forms of belonging; it thus brings forth new findings about collectivization, social mobilization, and change.

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Section: Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

Youkhana

2015

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“…Nevertheless, the extent, the outcomes, and the methodologies with which urban selforganization can be managed are largely debated (Bond and Thompson-Fawcett, 2007;Campbell and Marshall, 2000;Innes and Booher, 2004;Van Meerkerk et al, 2013). Chaskin and Garg (1997), Chaskin (2003), Chaskin et al (2012), Hasanov and Beaumont (2016), Lepofsky andFraser (2003), andMartin (2004) consider the challenges to put into action urban initiatives from non-governmental actors. Edelenbos (2005), Healey (2006), Kathi and Cooper (2005), Smith (2010) examine the difficulties of making effective collaborations with local administrations or agencies to pledge the implementation.…”

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Neighbourhood Regeneration at the Grassroots Participation: Incubators’ Co-Creative Process and System

Caneparo¹,

Bonavero²

2016

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“…Esta idea puede evaluarse como un intento de conceptualizar las transformaciones de prácticas individuales y su entorno social en un mundo global. Lepofsky y Fraser (2003) argumentan que una ciudadanía post-nacional, que responda a las transformaciones del mundo transnacional, debería incluir no solamente un mero repertorio de derechos y deberes. La ciudadanía participativa post-nacional, como se podría denominar el concepto, implica sobre todo la articulación de identidades y transforma ciudadanía desde un derecho constitucional a un acto performativo que se desarrolla a través de la participación en la sociedad.…”

Section: Ciudadanía Europea Y Políticas De Identidadunclassified

Prácticas de ciudadanía europea. El uso estratégico de las identidades en la participación política de los inmigrantes comunitarios

Janoschka¹

2010

Arbor

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A MODO DE INTRODUCCIÓNEl primer alcalde británico en España -¿símbolo de una sociedad integradora?"Un inglés que no sabe español, alcalde accidental de San Fulgencio" 1 , titulaba el rotativo La Vanguardia el 31 de octubre de 2008, cuando, tras la detención de la alcaldesa, del teniente alcalde y de varios concejales por supuestos casos de corrupción urbanística, le tocaba asumir temporalmente el cargo de alcalde a un edil de origen británico que forma parte de la coalición gobernante de ese pueblo en la costa alicantina. La noticia, ampliamente difundida tanto en los medios españoles de cobertura nacional 2 como en la prensa británica 3 , expone al público una transformación en la política local española que ha ido cobrando fuerza desde que a los extranjeros comunitarios se les concediera el derecho de voto activo y pasivo en las elecciones municipales.El año 1999, cuando por primera vez la vía de sufragio se abrió de forma generalizada a los extranjeros procedentes de países de la Unión Europea que viven en España 4 , marca el inicio de un cambio profundo en la geografía política de algunos municipios, localizados primordialmente en la costa mediterránea. A medida que España evolucionaba a lo largo de la última década hasta llegar a ser el país con la mayor dinámica inmigratoria de la Unión Europea 5 , extensas áreas de las provincias de Alicante y Málaga, y de las Islas Baleares y Canarias se han poblado, entre otros, de un contingente específico de extranjeros. En su gran mayoría provienen de los países de la Unión Europea (especialmente la "antigua" UE-15, más Suiza y Noruega), con Gran Bretaña y Alemania a la cabeza, y una parte importante de ellos ABSTRACT: Local politics can be evaluated as an outstanding field of negotiation and social exchange that emblematize the deep transformations of the Spanish society due to the massive migration processes of the last decade. This article debates the magnitude of political change that was introduced by granting immigrants (mainly EU citizen) with active and passive voting rights, analyzing empirically observed forms of political participation at the Mediterranean coastal areas. This analysis is conceptually framed through the debate of two theoretical notions, namely the role European citizenship and European Identity play for the transformation of local politics. Both ideas are conceptualized and empirically debated as practices of EU rights and capacities formed by collective action that refers to the "Idea" of Europe.KEY WORDS: European citizenship; Political participation; Politics of Identity; Migration; Spain. RESUMEN:La política local es un campo de negociación e intercambio social en el cual se perciben de forma destacada las profundas transformaciones que la sociedad española vivió a partir de los procesos masivos de inmigración de la última década. Este texto debatirá, a través de un análisis empírico de las formas de participación política en la costa mediterránea, qué alcance y magnitud de cambio introduce el derecho de voto activo y pasivo de extranj...

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Building Community Citizens: Claiming the Right to Place-making in the City

Cited by 114 publications

References 22 publications

A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

Neighbourhood Regeneration at the Grassroots Participation: Incubators’ Co-Creative Process and System

Prácticas de ciudadanía europea. El uso estratégico de las identidades en la participación política de los inmigrantes comunitarios

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