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The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader
Contributor(s): Lazar, Sian (Editor)
ISBN: 1118412915     ISBN-13: 9781118412916
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $105.69  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Political Science | Civil Rights
Dewey: 323.6
LCCN: 2013016703
Series: Wiley-Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.9" W x 9.7" (1.50 lbs) 344 pages
 
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The Anthropology of Citizenship introduces the theoretical foundations of and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world, in local, national and global contexts. Key readings provide a cross-cultural perspective on citizenship practices, and an individual citizen's relationship with the state.

  • Introduces a range of exciting and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world
  • Provides key readings for students and researchers who wish to gain an understanding of citizenship practices, and an individual's relationship with the state in a global context
  • Offers an anthropological perspective on citizenship, the self and political agency, with a focus on encounters between citizens and the state in education, law, development, and immigration policy
  • Provides students with an understanding of the theoretical foundations of citizenship, as characterized by liberal and civic republican ideas of political belonging and exclusion
  • Explores how citizenship is constructed at different scales and in different spaces
  • Twenty-five key writings identify what is a new and vibrant subfield within politics and anthropological research