Assembling insurgent citizenship: immigrant advocacy struggles in the Washington DC metropolitan area

Leitner, Helga; Strunk, Christopher

doi:10.1080/02723638.2014.943582

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“…A shift from identity to practice also directs attention to the nature of, and potential for, political alliances between disabled people and diverse human and non-human others in the pursuit of more enabling and inclusive social formations. As Leitner and Strunk (2014) suggest in their work on immigrant advocacy, shifting connections between different groups, organizations, places and strategies can themselves be approached as complex political assemblages. Such an approach might be usefully adopted to explore, for example, the shifting relations that exist between disabled people, advocacy organizations, family members, charities, support workers, labour unions, state institutions and other bodies working to shape the conditions of everyday life.…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards a relational geography of disability

Hall

Wilton

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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In this paper we develop linkages between non-representational theory and emerging work by disability scholars in geography. We argue that non-representational thinking has the potential to advance our understanding of the complex and emergent geographies of dis/ability. We first outline key dimensions of non-representational thinking within geography. We then explore how this perspective has begun to, and might further inform, geographical scholarship on disability. Next, we extend our thinking to consider how NRT might provide the basis for a critical geography of the ‘able-body’. We conclude by reflecting on the conceptual, political, methodological and empirical implications of our argument.

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confidence: 99%

Towards a relational geography of disability

Hall

Wilton

2016

Progress in Human Geography

114

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“…Indeed, their project is often oriented toward recuperating, as political, actions and claims that, happening outside of or in opposition to institutionally recognized forms of politics, are too often dismissed as apolitical (Dikeç 2017). At the same time, those insisting on more contextually grounded or pragmatic definitions of politics are not thereby announcing an opposition to disruptive politics, but rather seeking to account for, rather than take as given, the creation and maintenance of governing orders or to do justice to the plurality of political actors and projects that (in)cohere around any particular problem (Barnett and Bridge 2016;Leitner and Strunk 2014). Without fully resolving these tensions, we operate here from an understanding of politics focused on action and claims-making around problems of collective importance in the context of plurality and unevenness (cf.…”

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“…In doing so, we speak to theoretical debates about the postpolitical and the broader questions about the specificity of politics to which those discussions have been joined (Beveridge and Koch 2017;Bond et al 2015;Davidson and Martin 2014;Derickson 2017b;Dikeç and Swyngedouw 2017;Leitner and Strunk 2014;Wilson and Swyngedouw 2014). We turn to Doshi and Ranganathan's (2017) work on political narrative and to MacLeod and McFarlane's (2014) writing on the "grammars of urban injustice" to emphasize how the frameworks through which we understand urban politics are never the province of critical scholarship alone, and we suggest the value of approaches that can sensitize us to the ways that politics-and its meaning-can itself become a problem as the relation between compassion and politics becomes an object of debate and struggle.…”

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‘There is no political agenda’

Ruez¹,

Parekh

2019

City

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This paper examines the emerging trend for city governments to declare themselves compassionate. Opening up the 'compassionate city' as an object of critical scrutiny, we outline some of the key ways that compassion has been approached in critical scholarship before turning our attention to the politics of these urban commitments to compassion as they are enacted in practice. Focusing on the city of Louisville, where the 'compassionate city' imaginary has been taken on both by politicians and by economic, migrant and racial justice activists, we examine the potential of compassion as and in relation to other political grammars, and consider the polyvalent nature of the compassionate city as it has shaped public debate and political struggle in the city. We argue that this turn toward compassion should be evaluated and understood neither in terms of the good intentions of compassion proponents nor exclusively through analyses that reduce compassion to a single logic to be critiqued, but, instead, in terms of its contingent politics. In doing so, we respond to recent debates about the specificity of the political by emphasizing that the meaning of politics and the political grammars through which we understand urban problems are never the province of critical scholarship alone, and we highlight the value of approaches that can sensitize us to the ways that politics-and its meaning-can itself become a problem as the political nature of the compassionate city is called into question.

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“…Here civil society is seen as a more dispersed and differentiated context forcefully shaped by transnational mobility and connectivities that call into question statist definitions of citizenship (e.g. Brand, 2014;Jeffrey & Jakala, 2015;Leitner & Strunk, 2014b). Finally, acts of citizenship captures the broadest sense of the concept, coming close to the idea of political agency in general, but mostly in regard practices that challenge, rework and reinvent established ideas that actors have of "themselves (and others) as subjects of rights" (Isin, 2009, p. 371).…”

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The subject of citizenship – Can there be a posthuman civil society?

Häkli

2018

Political Geography

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In this article, I discuss the notion of agency and its relationship to our understanding of acts of citizenship embedded in civil society. I focus particularly on the strain under which the idea of human agency has fallen in the context of posthumanist thinking. By building on critical interrogations of posthumanist thought, I shed light on the consequences of distributed agency on thinking about citizenship and civil society, and particularly the normative underpinnings of agency framed in these terms. In particular I show that the idea of responsibility should be further elaborated upon before we can meaningfully consider citizenship in (more than) posthumanist terms. I conclude by briefly outlining a possibility for overcoming the ontological contradiction between humanist and posthumanist thought as a promising move towards rethinking citizenship and civil society in a more-than-posthuman world.

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Assembling insurgent citizenship: immigrant advocacy struggles in the Washington DC metropolitan area

Cited by 30 publications

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Towards a relational geography of disability

Towards a relational geography of disability

‘There is no political agenda’

The subject of citizenship – Can there be a posthuman civil society?

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