Those considering threats to the liberal-democratic model of citizenship which emanate 'from below' have naturally focused on migrants' sentiments of belonging and the meaning they ascribe to citizenship -or substantive citizenship. Using the findings of two years' ethnographic fieldwork, the article explores the modes of belonging of a group of first-, second-and third-generation migrants in central London. It is argued that a substantive notion of 'denizenship' united these individuals -whether they were citizens or denizens (resident non-citizens) in the formal sensea mindset characterised by a rejection of nationhood and involving either a renouncement or a refusal of citizenship and its attendant duties and obligations.

Few phenomena in contemporary society have elicited such strong sentiments as that labeled “football hooliganism.” The disorder and violence that the phrase encapsulates has been studied, policed, and legislated against from a wide variety of starting points. In this entry the authors contend that the epiphenomena provoked by hooliganism are as worthy of academic inquiry as the “hooligans” themselves. The entry charts the history of football hooliganism as well as of governmental and academic responses to it, and ends by examining contemporary instances of hooliganism from around the world.

Using the findings of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at an inner-city football club, the article examines the relationship between superdiversity and understandings of human variation. It is argued that club personnel relied on what I have termed ‘granular essentialisms’ to make sense of their superdiverse surroundings. These were assertions about ethnicity and ‘race’ that resulted from sustained engagement across various categories of difference and saw these categories intersected in various ways, with notions of space and place being invoked in the process. This granular approach is compared with the attitudes to migration-related diversity encountered outside the inner city. I conclude that proponents of superdiversity should take greater account of the inequalities, tensions and prejudices evident in and around superdiverse areas if they are to construct a more comprehensive picture of the lived realities of contemporary cities and the understandings of ethno-racial difference which take hold there.

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