ISSN:
0309-1317
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
International journal of urban and regional research : IJURR
Publ. der Quelle:
Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 39, No. 4 (2015), p. 655-665
DDC:
690
Abstract:
In this symposium, we explore how urban citizenship is about expressing, if not producing, difference, and how fragmentation of claims affects urban citizenship and right to the city movements with their universal, all‐inclusive ideals. Investigating social movements, political participation and conflicting diversities in public space in Tel Aviv and Berlin, we see a trend towards a diversification of interests, a weakening of movements, and even a competition over rights and resources rather than a development of mutual support and solidarities among various groups on the pathway to a livable city. This tension, we argue, deserves attention. Radical urban scholarship and politics need to better understand the historical and place‐specific contexts that structure the formation of citizenship claims and the courses that citizenship struggles take. Celebrations of urban citizenship as a more contextualized, community oriented, and bottom‐up framework (in comparison to national citizenship) should therefore be complemented by a careful investigation of their fragmented and fragmenting practices.
Note:
Copyright: © 2015 Urban Research Publications Limited
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Copyright: © COPYRIGHT 2015 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
DOI:
10.1111/1468-2427.12259
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.12259/abstract
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1757508056
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