Enacting Citizenship and the Right to the City
Towards Inclusion through Deepening Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13055596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Hintjens (0000-0002-7639-8380, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author), Rachel Kurian (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 71-78 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Inclusion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-2803 • E-ISSN: 2183-2803 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/si.v7i4.2654 |
| OpenAlex | W2991352696 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
In this introductory article, the main theoretical concerns guiding this thematic issue are briefly discussed, alongside an overview of relevant literature on rights and urban citizenship. We draw on the work of Engin on ‘enacted citizenship,’ and combine Hannah Arendt’s ‘right to have rights’ with Henri Lefebvre’s ‘right to the city,’ for inspiration. The hope is that these concepts or theoretical tools help our contributors explore the ‘grey areas’ of partial inclusion and exclusion, and to connect the informal with the formal, migrants with professionals, locals with those from elsewhere. Since the contributions in this issue come from practitioners as well as scholars, we are interested in very different forms of urban citizenship being enacted in a range of settings, in such a way as to overcome, or at least side-step, social, economic and political exclusion within specific urban settings. In this introduction we reflect on urban migrants organising and mobilising to enact their own citizenship rights within specific urban spaces, and present each of the eight published articles, briefly illustrating the range of approaches and urban citizenship issues covered in this thematic issue. The examples of urban enacted citizenship practices include efforts to construct economic livelihoods, gain access to health care, promote political participation, reweave the social fabric of poor neighbourhoods, and provide sanctuary. All of which, our contributors suggest, requires the engagement of the local urban authorities to allow room for the informal, and to accept the need for improved dialogue and improved access to public services
Active citizenship · Citizenship · Democracy · Inclusion (mineral · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Right to the city · Social exclusion · Social rights · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance
Urban migrant citizenship in syndemic times in Italian small towns
Claiming urban citizenship through insurgent choreographies
Diasporic Civic Agency and Participation
The Social and Citizen Participation of Older People as a Factor for Social Inclusion
Bridging the Gap between Electoral and Participatory Democracy
Enacting European Citizenship
The Claims of Culture
Citizenship and Social Class
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Border games
Human Rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe
Improvising “Nonexistent Rights”
Diasporic Civic Agency and Participation
Enabling Social Inclusion and Urban Citizenship of Older Adults through eHealth
Hostile Immigration Policy and the Limits of Sanctuary as Resistance
From Sanctuary to Welcoming Cities’
Contested Health Care System in Berlin
Acts for Refugees’ Right to the City and Commoning Practices of Care-tizenship in Athens, Mytilene and Thessaloniki
Spaces of Urban Citizenship
Screening in or out? Surveillance of unwanted humanity across the EU
Challenges to Desecuritizing Migration in Greece
Reading diasporic engagements through the lens of citizenship
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rural Areas
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |