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Urban Citizenship and Right to the City

The Fragmentation of Claims

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ID4382756
AuthorsTalja Blokland (0000-0002-9997-1207, Urban and Regional Sociology Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Germany, corresponding author), Christine Hentschel (0009-0008-3577-8118, Institute for Criminological Research, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hamburg Allende‐Platz 1, 20146 Hamburg Germany, corresponding author), Andrej Holm (0000-0001-7514-0188, Urban and Regional Sociology Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Germany, corresponding author), Henrik Lebuhn (Urban and Regional Sociology Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin Germany, corresponding author), Talia Margalit (0000-0002-4965-6436, David Azrieli School of Architecture Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv Tel‐Aviv 69978 Israel, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume39
Issue4
Pages655-665
Publication date2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.12259
OpenAlexW2159651270
LanguageEN
Citations received98
References cited38

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

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