Creating the Exemplary Citizen: The Changing Notion of Citizenship in Britain 1870–1939

Beaven, Brad; Griffiths, John

doi:10.1080/13619460701189559

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“…3 This article contests this view and demonstrates that active urban citizenship remained a potent social force in the landscape of the urban park until the inter-war period. These parks offered the opportunity to both establish and display not only a sense of civic pride in the city, but pride in the collective ownership of that space.…”

Section: Municipal Public Parks In the Twentieth Centurymentioning

confidence: 82%

“We Have Gone Recreation Mad”: The Consumption of Leisure and Popular Entertainment in Municipal Public Parks in Early Twentieth Century Britain

O’Reilly

2013

International Journal of Regional and Local History

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This study examines the development of popular entertainment in the municipal public parks of a variety of British cities in the early decades of the twentieth century. It seeks to extend the debate about the social role of the urban park beyond the Victorian period and to challenge the idea that parks were mere mechanisms for social control. Their later developments were more complex and offered an increasing variety of popular entertainments such as dancing to a more discerning leisure consumer. In so doing, park managers found themselves in direct competition with private leisure providers and attempting to anticipate future trends in an expanding leisure population. The article concludes by considering how the determination to broaden the recreational value of the public park ultimately weakened its unique character and began a long cycle of decline.

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Section: Municipal Public Parks In the Twentieth Centurymentioning

confidence: 82%

“We Have Gone Recreation Mad”: The Consumption of Leisure and Popular Entertainment in Municipal Public Parks in Early Twentieth Century Britain

O’Reilly

2013

International Journal of Regional and Local History

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“…Hulton argued that it was ‘the townspeople's duty, each to do all in their power to help raise the standard of life and the conception of citizenship’ ( Bolton Journal and Guardian 21 February ). Here, Hulton is taking up the question of why women do not have voting rights and attempting to forge a link between the individual woman and authority to redress this (Beaven and Griffiths ). Here these middle‐class women are clearly Isin's (2002, ix) ‘others’ of citizenship; actors who can be enticed to conduct themselves in just and virtuous ways conducive to social, political and spatial orders envisaged by citizens.…”

Section: Middle‐class Female Citizenship and Suffrage In Early 20th‐century Boltonmentioning

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‘A band of public‐spirited women’: middle‐class female philanthropy and citizenship in Bolton, Lancashire before 1918

Moore

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, despite the cultural ideal of private and public as separate spheres and a lack of formal voting rights, many middle-class women engaged in philanthropic and social work outside the home. Taking as its focus a group of middle-class women in Bolton, Lancashire, this paper conducts a prosopography, or group biography, in order to shed light on female citizenship and make a historical contribution to literature on citizenship beyond voting rights. The paper uses archive traces to reconstruct the experience of the female philanthropist and understand her motivations. The focus of the paper is a new theoretical approach to women's citizenship in the early 20th century. Using Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics, or life politics, the paper reconceptualises women's social work as a form of biopolitical patriotism that was the basis of a scalar claim to citizenship. This historical evidence from Bolton reveals that biopolitical action was not solely the preserve of the state. Women claimed fitness for citizenship and the vote by nation-building, carrying out work that shaped children into the citizens of the future and safeguarded the moral and physical health of the nation.

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“…Citizenship was a key theme in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century anglophone political thought.A large historical literature has traced shifts in the meaning of the concept (e.g. Beaven and Griffiths, 2008;Freeden, 2003;Stapleton, 2005), though it has often ignored or downplayed visions of imperial membership. Meanwhile, a small but illuminating body of scholarship has anatomised accounts of imperial citizenship (e.g.…”

Section: Contesting Citizenship: Race Empire Isopolitymentioning

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Beyond the Sovereign State: Isopolitan Citizenship, Race and Anglo-American Union

Bell

2013

Political Studies

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Debates about post‐Westphalian forms of citizenship play an important role in contemporary political thought. I analyse a significant precursor to these debates, exploring fin de siècle conceptions of racial and imperial political membership. My argument has two main parts. First, I delineate four rival models of imperial citizenship: imperial‐statist, institutional‐imperial, racial‐imperial and racial‐isopolitan. Second, I dissect the notion of ‘isopolitan’ (or common) citizenship. Isopolity is a practice, derived from the ancient Greeks, in which independent states reciprocally grant citizenship rights to the members of other independent states, thus creating a loose form of political union. It was adapted at the turn of the twentieth century to theorise future Anglo‐American relations. I examine the arguments of some prominent isopolitans, focusing on the constitutional theorist A. V. Dicey. ‘Anglo’ isopolitans challenged the isomorphic relationship between the territorial state, sovereignty and political membership. They did so through constructing a global white supremacist vision.

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Creating the Exemplary Citizen: The Changing Notion of Citizenship in Britain 1870–1939

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

“We Have Gone Recreation Mad”: The Consumption of Leisure and Popular Entertainment in Municipal Public Parks in Early Twentieth Century Britain

“We Have Gone Recreation Mad”: The Consumption of Leisure and Popular Entertainment in Municipal Public Parks in Early Twentieth Century Britain

‘A band of public‐spirited women’: middle‐class female philanthropy and citizenship in Bolton, Lancashire before 1918

Beyond the Sovereign State: Isopolitan Citizenship, Race and Anglo-American Union

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