On the promise and perils of citizenship
Heuristic concepts, Zimbabwean example
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4525482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Rutherford (0000-0003-4066-7099, Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 499-512 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2011.564829 |
| OpenAlex | W2081611110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 10 |
Increasingly, struggles in the name of citizenship inspire and catch the imagination and support of individuals and groups found in a variety of locales within a nation as well as transnational spaces. At the same time, their consequences may be quite different from the assumptions and dreams of those involved in perpetuating and imagining these struggles. To analyse how new social citizenship claims can embolden and channel struggles in particular directions with varied results – the promise and perils of citizenship more broadly – I suggest that one should pay attention to the promulgators of such visions of citizenship, the techniques of promoting their claims and the cultural politics and political economies of belonging in the locales of mobilization. Drawing on an ethnographic example of a farm labour struggle in the late 1990s in Zimbabwe, I explore the importance of attending to wider shifts in the political importance of citizenship as well as its entanglement in particular localities. Through examining how farm workers are situated through such struggles, I show the promise and limits of citizenship in addressing social justice concerns of a group historically marginalized through racialized, classed and gendered processes
Citizenship · Ethnography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Vision · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law
Citoyennetés industrielles, (in)soumissions ouvrières et formes du lien syndical
Land reform, citizenship and aliens in Zimbabwe
Thinking through Political Subjectivity
In the shadows of the third Chimurenga
Shifting the debate on land reform, poverty and inequality in Zimbabwe, an engagement with Zimbabwe's Land Reform
Performative citizenship and the politics of scale
Landscapes and governance
Organization and (De)mobilization of Farmworkers in Zimbabwe
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |