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Citizenship as a regime : Canadian and international perspectives
What citizenship reveals about a society, its politics, its history, and its current challenges.
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The Practice of Citizenship
In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does.In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitution and the founding of the Free African Society by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, and ending in 1861, with the onset of the Civil War. Between these two points he recovers understudied figures such as William J. Wilson, whose 1859 \"Afric-American Picture Gallery\" appeared in seven installments in The Anglo-African Magazine, and the physician, abolitionist, and essayist James McCune Smith. He places texts such as the proceedings of black state conventions alongside considerations of canonical figures such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Frederick Douglass.Reading black print culture as a space where citizenship was both theorized and practiced, Spires reveals the degree to which concepts of black citizenship emerged through a highly creative and diverse community of letters, not easily reducible to representative figures or genres. From petitions to Congress to Frances Harper's parlor fiction, black writers framed citizenship both explicitly and implicitly, the book demonstrates, not simply as a response to white supremacy but as a matter of course in the shaping of their own communities and in meeting their own political, social, and cultural needs.
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We are good citizens
\"Kids can be good citizens, too. They have freedoms within the groups they belong to and responsibilities to show they carewith their words and their actions. In We Are Citizens readers will explore what being a good citizen means at home, at school, and in the world.\"--Provided by publisher.
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South African Citizenship and Naturalised Citizens’ Complex Integration
This study used interpretivist digital ethnography to investigate the dynamics of citizenship and social inclusion/exclusion of 26 South African naturalised citizens selected for empirical inquiry through purposive sampling. It examined how South Africanness is imagined and constructed; how citizenship belonging influences inclusion and exclusion for naturalised citizens who are denied full membership despite accomplishing naturalisation. The findings indicated that naturalised citizens perceive South Africa as hybridised due to legal belonging status ambiguities, classifying them as second-class citizens and the critical role of identity-making mechanisms naturalised subjects use to create a feeling of belonging and mitigating exclusionary South Africanness. Experiences of naturalisation show that full belonging is not a given which impacts how they choose to belong as citizens. Despite civic closures to inclusion, they successfully embrace multiple identities and adopt cultural citizenship as a strategy for incorporation to gaining full access to rights, participation, and recognition as well as the unification of political, social, economic and cultural boundaries of diverse locales and identities. The study emphasised the importance of fostering unrooted belonging in diverse societies.
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Citizenship : what everyone needs to know
\"Citizenship is a like the air we breathe; it's all around us but often goes unnoticed. That is not a historically ordinary situation. Citizenship was once an exceptional status, a kind of aristocracy of the ancient world in which freedom and political voice were not taken for granted. Even as the nation-state emerged as the primary form of human association, citizenship remained an anomalous status, reserved for the few who were privileged as such in republican democracies. More recently, it has been the individual marker of membership in all national communities. It is generic; almost everyone has it, hence the ubiquity that has made it sometimes unseen. Most people never change the citizenship that they are unthinkingly born into; they have no cause to consider it any more critically than their choice of parents. Insofar as citizenship during the twentieth century came to be aligned with national community on the ground and in the public imagination, there was even less reason to look at it searchingly\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Biocitizenship : the politics of bodies, governance, and power
\"Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power is a critical study of the relationship between the concept of citizenship and the body\"-- Provided by the publisher.
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Consequences of unit-level organizational citizenship behaviors: A review and recommendations for future research
During the past 30 years, interest in organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) has grown substantially. Although much of the early empirical research in this domain was directed at the individual level of analysis, more recently, researchers have focused their attention on identifying the outcomes of group-level or unit-level OCBs, as well as the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions of the relationships between OCBs and unit-level outcomes. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide a summary of the extant literature in this area. First, we discuss the applicability of the types of OCB to the unit level of analysis. Following this, we provide a summary of the literature examining outcomes of unit-level OCBs, with particular attention paid to the mediators and moderators of the relationship between OCBs and unit effectiveness. Next, we examine the methodological characteristics of studies conducted in this research domain. Finally, we make a series of conceptual and methodological recommendations regarding future research on the consequences of unit-level OCBs.
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