Citizenship Theories
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Citizenship refers to a person's relationship with a political unit, but the precise ways in which it has been thought of and practiced by geographers reflect different historical, philosophical, political, and cultural traditions. Geographers have engaged with different ideas about citizenship to explain how social, cultural, and political processes combine to shape particular places. Yet debate remains about how concepts of citizenship should be used in geography. Attentiveness to the different local contexts in which citizenship developed positions geographers to contribute new perspectives that decenter the hegemony of Western interpretations of citizenship. Moreover, geographical perspectives offer insights ranging from the significance of spaces above and below the state, to the formation, identity, and performance of heterogeneous forms of citizenship. New directions that geography can bring to citizenship studies include relational and postnational accounts of citizenship, raising the possibilities of hybridized and practices of global citizenship that transcend the nation-state and which challenge Western/non-Western binaries of citizenship.
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