People's understandings of what it means to be a citizen go to the heart of the various meanings of personal and national identity, political and electoral participation, and rights. The contributors to this book seek to explore the difficult questions inherent in the notion of citizenship from various angles. They look at citizenship and rights, citizenship and identity, citizenship and political struggle, and the policy implications of substantive notions of citizenship. They illustrate the various 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.
This is the first volume in a new series: Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation and Accountability
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'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 and 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.
'The case studies in Inclusive Citizenship are powerful, absorbing stories, told with force and passion that compel the reader to internalise them. ... What warms my heart is that the examples in this book poignantly capture how individuals, social groups, women, and indigenous communities across the globe have not kept silent, allowing globalisation to run its course.'
Krishnamurthy Pushpanath, campaign executive, Oxfam GB, UK
'Although the idea of citizenship is almost universal, little is known about what it means for ordinary people in the contemporary world in both industrialised and developing countries. This book is therefore a timely contribution to filling this gap.'
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Naila Kabeer is professorial fellow at IDS and a member of the Poverty and Social Policy Team. Her research interests include gender, population and poverty issues. Her recent books include The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka and Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals.
Foreword - John Gaventa
Introduction
1. The search for inclusive citizenship: Meanings and expressions in an interconnected world.- Naila Kabeer
Citizenship and Rights
2. Towards an actor-oriented Perspective on human rights - Celestine Nyamu-Musembi
3. The emergence of human rights in the North: Towards historical re-evaluation - Neil Stammers
Citizenship and Identity
4. A nation in search of citizens: Problems of citizenship in the Nigerian context - Oga Steve Abah and Jenks Z. Okwori
5.The quest for inclusion: Nomadic communities and citizenship questions in Rajasthan- Mandakini Pant
6. Rights without citizenship? Participation, family and community in Rio de Janeiro - Joanna. S. Wheeler
7. Young people talking about citizenship in Britain - Ruth Lister, Noel Smith, Sue Middleton and Lynn Cos
8. Rights and citizenship of indigenous women in Chiapas: a history of struggles, fears and hopes - Carlos Cortez Ruiz
Citizenship and Struggle
9. 'We all have rights, but...' Contesting concepts of citizenship in Brazil - Evelina Dagnino
10. Bodies as sites of struggle: Naripokkho and the movement for women's rights in Bangladesh - Shireen Huq
11. 'Growing' citizenship from the grassroots: Nijera Kori and social mobilization in Bangladesh - Naila Kabeer
12. Constructing citizenship without a licence: the struggle of undocumented immigrants in the USA for livelihoods and recognition - Fran Ansley
Citizenship and Policy
13. The Grootboom case and the constitutional right to housing: the poilitcs of planning in poet-apartheid South Africa - John J Williams
14. Citizenship and the right to water: Lessons from South Africa's Free Basic Water policy - Lyla Mehta
15. Donors, rights-based Approaches and implications for global citizenship: a case study from Peru - Rosalind Eyben
