Making Citizenship Work seeks to address question of how a community reaches a place where it can actually make citizenship work. A second question addressed is "What does citizenship represent to different communities?"
Across thirteen chapters a collection of experts traverse multiple disciplines in analyzing citizenship from different points of access. Each chapter revolves around the premise that empowerment of communities, and individuals within the community, comes in different forms and is governed by multiple needs and visions. Authors utilize case studies to demonstrate the different roles that communities from a broad sector of our society adopt to accomplish constructing democratic processes that reflect their goals, needs, and cultures. Concurrently authors address the structural obstacles to the empowerment of communities, arguing that the democratic process does not and cannot accommodate the diverse communities of society within a single universalistic model of citizenship. They conclude that fundamentally citizenship is not simply a legal right, an obligation, a state of rights, but a practice, an action on the behalf of community.
Making Citizenship Work challenges conventional thinking about politics while also encouraging readers to go beyond the box that deters us from visualizing a human society. It is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate courses in political science, sociology, history, social work and Ethnic Studies.
Author(s): Rodolfo Rosales
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 300
City: London
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART 1: History as an Ongoing Human Struggle
1. The Connection between Culture, Community, and Citizenship
2. Imagining Radical Entanglement for Social Change: Introduction: Thinking Through the Problems of the We-group for Imagining Social Change
3. Building Critical Radical Communities: Liberation Pedagogies and the Origins of Black Studies
4. Community as the Basis of Resistance: A Historical Analysis
PART 2: Culture as the Basis of Human Dignity
5. How Prison Survivors Shift What Civic Participation Means: Incarceration and Activism in the Pandemic
6. The Struggle for Mexican American Studies in Texas K-12 Public Schools: A Movement for Epistemic Justice through Creation/Resistance
7. Remembering and Reconciling: Native American Women, Community, and Citizenship
PART 3: Community, Agency, Citizenship
8. The Baltimore Uprising and the Stunted Transformation of Urban Black Politics
9. Re-Membering Native Citizens in an Age of Native Terminations: Ideas on How to Restore Indigenous Community
10. Relating Street-level Practices in Marketplaces to ever-changing Social Institutions
11. Against Borders: Latinx Youth Activism and Enactments of Citizenship
PART 4: The Historical Roots of Community Agency
12. Salus Populi - From the Pacific to the Americas: Community Health, Resistance, and Solidarity
13. Carbon copies: Colonial Recognition, Climate Crisis, and Indigenous Belonging
Conclusion
Index
