Author: Naila Kabeer
Editor(s): Naila Kabeer
Publisher: Kali/Zubaan
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 274
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189013165
Description
Inclusive Citizenship seeks to go beyond the intellectual debates of recent years on democratization and participation to explore a related set of issues around changing conceptions of citizenship. People’s understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of identity, including national identity; political and electoral participation; and rights. The researchers in this volume come from a wide variety of societies, including the industrial countries in the North, and they seek to explore these difficult questions from various angles. Themes include:
Citizenship and rights
Citizenship and Identity
Citizenship and Political Struggle
The policy implications of substantive notions of citizenship
Particular contributions throw light on the variety of ways in which people are excluded from full citizenship’ the identities that matter to people and their compatibility with dominant notions of citizenship; the tensions between individual and collective rights in definitions of citizenship; struggles to realize and expand citizens rights; and the challenges these questions entail for development policy.
REVIEWS
How can human rights become part of the lived experience of those who continue to be denied those rights whether because of poverty, gender, ethnicity, caste or sexual orientation? This book develops a range of interesting cases documenting the promise and challenge of translating rights into reality. This is important, cutting-edge work in the new discussions around rights, responsibilities, subjectivity and agency. Very highly recommended.
-GITA SEN, Sir Ratan TaTa Chair Professor & Chairperson, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management
Naila Kabeer is to be congratulated for bringing together this collection of essays that give us a comparative perspective on citizenship in everyday life.
-MAHMOOD MAMDANI, Herbert Lehmann Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Columbia
Contents
ACRONYMS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
FOREWORD-JOHN GAVENTA
ONE
INTRODUCTION
The Search for inclusive citizenship: Meanings and expressions is an interconnected world
NAILA KABEER
CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS
TWO
Towards an actor-oriented perspective on human rights
CELESTINE NYAMU-MUSEMBI
THREE
The emergence of human rights in the North: Towards historical re-evaluation
NEIL STAMMERS
CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY
FOUR
A nation in search of citizens: Problems of citizenship in the Nigerian context
OGA STEVE ABAH AND JENKS ZAKARI OKWORI
FIVE
The quest for inclusion: Nomadic communities and citizenship questions in Rajasthan
MANDAKINI PANT
SIX
Rights without citizenship? Participation, family and community in Rio de Janeiro
JOANNA S WHEELER
SEVEN
Young people talking about citizenship in Britain
RUTH LISTER, WITH NOEL SMITH, SUE MIDDLETON, LYNN COX
EIGHT
Rights and citizenship of indigenous women in Chiapas: a history of struggles, fears and hopes
CARLOS CORTEZ RUIZ
CITIZENSHIP AND STRUGGLE
NINE
We all have rights, but, Contesting concepts of Citizenship in Brazil
Evelina Dagnino
TEN
Bodies as sites of struggle: Naripokkho and the movement for women’s rights in Bangladesh
SHIREEN P HUQ
ELEVEN
Glowing citizenship from the grassroots: Nijera Kori and social mobilization in Bangladesh
NAILA KABEER
TWELVE
Constructing citizenship without a licence: the struggle of undocumented immigrants in the USA for livelihoods ad recognition
FRAN ANSLEY
CITIZENSHIP AND POLICY
THIRTEEN
The Grootboom case and the constitutional right to housing: the politics of planning in post-apartheid South Africa
JOHN J WILLIAMS
FOURTEEN
Citizenship and the right to water: Lessons from South Africa’s Free Basic Water Policy
LYLA MEHTA
FIFTEEN
Donors, rights-based approaches and implications for global citizenship: a case study from Peru
ROSALIND EYBEN
INDEX