CALL FOR PAPERS
Session title: Political Geographies of Citizenship
Nordic Geographers' Meeting 2019
June 16-19 2019 in Trondheim
Citizenship is an important focal point for political claims as well as an analytical lens for conceptual, contextual and comparative scholarship on the contentious politics of constructing, limiting or expanding citizenship. The extent and content of citizenship has thus come to be seen as a matter of power and politics, centred on the discursive construction of communities of citizens the principles and policies for granting citizenship as a legal status the extent and substance of rights and, the spaces and strategies for active citizenship. This means that politics has emerged as a key theme within citizenship studies, but also that citizenship has become a prism through which to address the political.
There is also increased attention and awareness of the complex geographic configuration of citizenship and citizenship politics. The liberal nation-state model of citizenship has come under pressure as economic globalisation has challenged the sovereignty of the state and contributed to the emergence of multi-scale forms of governance and citizenship.
Neo-liberal governance means that membership, rights and participation are not only defined by the citizens’ relations to the state, but also by the market and civil society. And increased international mobility has produced a growing number of people with dual citizenship or transnational belonging. While the state remains a pivot for citizenship, these processes mean that citizenship has come to be defined with reference to diverse domains of governance and multiple scales and territories. Citizenship and citizenship politics have thus become increasingly complex in geographic terms.
This session invites paper that provide conceptual, contextual or comparative political geographic analyses of citizenship. The list of suggested themes includes, but are not limited to:
• Citizenship norms of participatory parity and actual experiences of exclusion and stratified citizenship
• Spatiality of hegemonic constructions of citizenship and counter-hegemonic politics of citizenship
• Popular struggles for cultural, juridical, social, political and environmental justice
• The political spaces, capacities and strategies of political forces, movements and alliances engaging in citizenship politics
• The relations and tensions between cultural membership judicial status rights and political participation in politics of citizenship
Abstract should be maximum 300 words and must be sent to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] by 15 December.
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