No space for citizens? Conceptualisations of citizenship in a functional region

Syssner, Josefina

doi:10.1080/13621025.2010.534934

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“…As long as the complexities of the socially-situated, embodied realities of the intersectional human being are not being captured by the concept of 'the citizen', the concept of the 'energy citizen' will remain equally problematic. As Syssner (2011) suggests, in the absence of a contract between the polity and the citizen, citizenship is reduced to the simple monetary capacity of the individual. This is not sustainable.…”

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Citizen or consumer? Reconsidering energy citizenship

Lennon

Dunphy

Gaffney

et al. 2019

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

111

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The transition to more sustainable energy systems has set about redefining the social roles and responsibilities of citizens. Implicit in this are expectations around participation, though the precise contours of what this might mean remain open. Debates around the energy transition have been skewed towards a normative construct of what it means to be a 'good citizen', the parameters for which are shaped by predetermined visions of statist and/or market-driven determinations of the energy systems of the future. This article argues that concepts such as 'energy citizen' are co-opted to reflect popular neoliberal discourses, and ignore crucial questions of unequal agency and access to resources. Paradoxically, official discourses that push responsibility for the energy transition onto the 'citizen-as-consumer' effectively remove agency from citizens, leaving them largely disconnected and disempowered. Consequently, energy citizenship needs to be reconceptualised to incorporate more collective and inclusive contexts for action. Considering how much energy consumption occurs in (traditionally female) domestic spheres, do conventional notions of citizenship (especially with regards to its associated rights and duties) need to be recalibrated in order for the concept to be usefully applied to the energy transition?

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Citizen or consumer? Reconsidering energy citizenship

Lennon

Dunphy

Gaffney

et al. 2019

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

111

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“…The possibility of enacting citizenship at non-national scales is affirmed by the sizeable literature related to urban citizenship, local belonging and functional regions (e.g. Bauböck, 2003;Holston, 1999;Isin and Nielsen, 2008;Price, 2012;Siemiatycki and Isin, 1997;Syssner, 2011;Veronis, 2006). Migrants without national citizenship, including on-status migrants, tend to assert and express their claims to political inclusion at the local scale, and cities throughout North America have subsequently implemented sanctuary and Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell policies (Nyers, 2010).…”

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Domicile citizenship, human mobility and territoriality

Bauder

2013

Progress in Human Geography

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Formal citizenship often excludes migrants who were not born in the national territory in which they reside and/or were born to parents of foreign nationality. In this article, I explore how the domicile principle of citizenship can better accommodate migrants. Although this principle has a long history, it has only recently received significant attention among scholars. I examine the tensions between formal citizenship, mobility and territoriality, while developing a practical argument in support of domicile as an alternative configuration of territorial formal citizenship. Moreover, I highlight the capacity of domicile to include migrants at local and urban scales.

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“…As such, the ESDP is an expression of a European vision of an open, cohesive EU, without internal borders and with free movement of people, capital and information. One result of this EU policy has been the linking of larger urban areas to one another in networked regions which stretch national, administrative and political borders (Allmendinger & Haughton, 2009), for example, the Oresund region (Ek, 2003), the Fourth City region in Sweden (Syssner, 2011) or more recent examples such as the Bothnian Arc (Zimmerbauer & Paasi, 2020). The aim was to create more balanced development between European regions through a specific focus on polycentrism.…”

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Contemporary regionalism and The Scandinavian 8 Million City: spatial logics in contemporary region-building processes

Grundel

2020

Regional Studies

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This paper shows how certain spatial logics are used to support contemporary region-building processes, and how these become taken for granted and institutionalized in specific regional settings. These spatial logics are also representative of the spatial logics dominating contemporary regionalism and affect the ways 'spaces' and 'citizens' are treated and valued in regional planning and policy. Few studies have shown how spatial logics are implemented, transformed and turned into policy across a wider set of regions. Exemplified by The Scandinavian 8 Million City project, the paper shows how this regional imaginary was constructed by the project promotors using several representative spatial logics of what constitutes the 'best' region as idealized in planning and policies.

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No space for citizens? Conceptualisations of citizenship in a functional region

Cited by 10 publications

References 28 publications

Citizen or consumer? Reconsidering energy citizenship

Citizen or consumer? Reconsidering energy citizenship

Domicile citizenship, human mobility and territoriality

Contemporary regionalism and The Scandinavian 8 Million City: spatial logics in contemporary region-building processes

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