Inclusive Citizenship : Meanings and Expressions

Contents: Foreword/John Gaventa. 1. Introduction: The search for inclusive citizenship: meanings and expressions in an interconnected world/Naila Kabeer. 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.  Identity: 4. A nation in search of citizens: problems of citizenship in the Nigerian context/Oga Steve Abah and Jenks Zakari 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, with Noel Smith, Sue Middleton and Lynn Cox. 8. Rights and citizenship of indigenous women in Chiapas: a history of struggles, fears and hopes/Carlos Cortez Ruiz. 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 P. Haq. 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. Policy: 13. The grootboom case and the constitutional right to housing: the politics of planning in post-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. Index.

"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: i. Citizenship and rights. ii. Citizenship and identity. iii. Citizenship and political struggle. iv. 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."