Sites Of Citizenship Research Articles

MARKET AS A SITE OF CITIZENSHIP: HOW YOGYAKARTA'S TRADITIONAL MARKETS RESPONDED DURING THE PANDEMIC ERA

This research aims to examine the existence of traditional markets as sites of citizenship in responding to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. This research departs from the basic assumption that the market is not only a place for economic transactions. But it is also a place for political, cultural, social and other transactions. Therefore, the Covid-19 Pandemic situation is not only related to the impact on the economy, it has a broader and deeper impact on the market as a site of citizenship. This research produces an understanding that traditional markets are quite important civic sites in the era of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The research was conducted at 4 (four) traditional markets in Bantul Regency, namely Imogiri Market, Bantul Market, Angkruksari Market and Semampir Market. The subjects of this research were 61 people consisting of traders, market organizations (APPSI), and market heads as basic government representatives. The research was carried out and analyzed qualitatively and used source triangulation and technical triangulation. This research concludes that the Yogyakarta traditional market as a civic site is relatively effective in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic because it has family values, cooperation, and trust that are relatively dominant in decision making. Meeting activities in the form of deliberation and consensus in decision making are also dominant in this research. This research is still very limited and needs to be studied more widely and in depth with a relatively different approach.

Whose interest does it serve? A confucian community engagement

It is incontestable that universities assumed the so-called “third mission” which means that they include community engagement in their activities in order to be financially viable. This paradigm shift begs the question: In terms of whose interest does community engagement serve? It has been difficult to separate community engagement from traditional research as community engagement projects can emerge from new research ideas. As an emerging property, community engagement should be holistic rather than reductionist, in order to afford universities opportunities to function as sites of citizenship, as well as to contribute to the knowledge society and knowledge economy, and generate mutual benefits. However, there are no instruments used to gauge the benefits for communities, while the benefits for academics and universities are outputs, promotions and revenue. The epistemologies and methodologies used in community engagement activities are often foreign to the communities and neither appreciate nor understand their problems. Instead of universities being communities of scholars, they have become workplaces. The communities are often pawns and objects in the hidden agendas of researchers and institutions. Some of these agendas include but are not limited to, university entrepreneurialism, dispossession of indigenous knowledge of local communities, advancement of commercialisation and capitalism, and meeting academic key performance areas to be eligible for promotion. This conceptual article argues that community engagement is a complex phenomenon that requires a systemic non-linear approach.

Emigrant citizenship, privileged local belonging and the option to return: Germans on the Turkish coast

The current migratory dynamics in the Mediterranean are characterized by large numbers of displaced people, refugees, and other vulnerable groups. In addition, the Mediterranean attracts more privileged individuals who are migrating for lifestyle reasons to find a better life abroad. But, while political and economic crises are at the roots of many movements across the Mediterranean, the question is whether these are also leading to the “displacement” of the privileged. In addressing this question, the article links privileged lifestyle migration to a perspective on mobile citizenship, focusing on German retirees who have found a new home on the Turkish coast. It builds on various stages of field research, including a recent field trip in May 2018. The article shows how lifestyle migrants engage and entangle emigrant and other sites of citizenship when navigating residential security and when expressing their way of local belonging in times of turmoil, and how their decision to stay in Turkey is paradoxically enabled by their option to return. The article’s focus on privileged migration thus also reveals the role of return as a neglected aspect in the study of (emigrant) citizenship.

Pesantren sebagai situs kewarganegaraan dan pembentukan budaya kewargaan di Madura

This research aimed to analyze the pesantren as a site of citizenship and its role in shaping civic culture in Madura. This research was qualitative with a case study The results of this study indicate that: 1) Pesantren as a site of citizenship was a place of sowing identity and spirit of religion and nationality for citizens who are participative, active, caring, sensitive and responsible. 2) The role of pesantren as a site of citizenship in shaping civic culture in Madura, appears in the field of education, social, and politics through the inculcation of religious and national values, community empowerment, and political involvement. All of that were voiced on the religious values that characterize pesantren as an institution of Islamic education. Pesantren with traditional managerial patterns was guided by an open and moderate religious understanding. In the pesantren with modern managerial patterns, the programs were based on Islami, Tarbawi, Ma'hadi, and Indonesiawi. The forms of overcoming the problem were the empowerment of alumni and cooperation with the community.

Citizenship, Civic Memory and Urban Performance: Mission Wall Dances

The meaning of art changes in various contexts. This article examines how an outdoor performance transformed an urban street in the Mission District of San Francisco into a site of citizenship and political communication. This is the story of how choreographer Jo Kreiter and her small group of dancers used the power of memory, the social narratives about her San Franciscan performance site and symbolism to enhance the political message about gentrification embedded in her dance piece Mission Wall Dances. The relevance of public performance, however, does not come exclusively from its location, but rather includes its engagement with civic life. The performance of Mission Wall Dances became a dialogue between the physical site, the specific subject matter and the experiences and memories of the audience members. The associations made between the performance and its neighbourhood location in the minds of the audience members can build a sense of civic identity, at both individual and group levels. The images and ideas present in the performance commingled in the minds of the audience creating a new meaning for an urban landscape.

Re-thinking the `Good Life`

Citizenship and consumption have frequently been regarded as oppositional and even mutually exclusive domains of activity and theory. Recent consumption practices and discourses — although they raise many complex issues both empirically and theoretically — have begun to revise this perception. This article offers reasons for enlarging the framework of thinking about the contemporary `civic' or `republican' aspects of consumption in order to include considerations that have been little registered even in the argument of those whose special interest is in the environmentally concerned citizen or `ethical' consumer. It argues for the need to recognize the extent to which moral concerns may now be coinciding with more self-interested forms of disaffection with `consumerist' consumption, and revisions in thinking on the part of affluent consumers themselves about the `good life' and what conduces to human flourishing and personal fulfilment. Theorized under the concept of `alternative hedonism', attention is paid to the ways in which affluent consumption is both compromised by its negative effects (including congestion, pollution, overwork, stress) and pre-emptive of other possible pleasures and satisfactions. This theoretical approach is presented as distinctive in allowing for a consumer whose privately experienced and self-interested needs may come to encompass public goods and the gratifications of a more socially accountable consumption. The article advances a case for viewing the `alternative hedonist' reaction to consumerism as further adding to the ways in which consumption may be said today to be acquiring a `republican' dimension and emerging as a site of citizenship, and thereby of pressure for a sustainable consumption.

University-community engagement in Australia

The rise of a community engagement movement offers a range of possibilities for universities to function as ‘sites of citizenship’. These include contributing to community social and economic infrastructure, supporting equity and diversity within higher education, and education for democratic citizenship. This article provides an overview of the findings of a recent study of engagement practices and policies in Australian universities. The article then goes on to discuss some of the possibilities and problems surrounding community engagement as a site of citizenship. It is suggested that while university-community engagement contributes to the public good, it also reflects a changed economic and social context in which concepts of ‘community’ have superseded broader notions of the social.

New Sites of Citizenship: Recognition of Traditional Authority and Group-based Citizenship in Mozambique*

Since the General Peace Accord of 1992, Mozambique has embarked on a protracted process of democratic decentralisation. The Municipal Law 2 of 1997 made provision for elected local governments in 33 urban municipalities, but not in rural areas. Instead, in the latter a little over 4,000 ‘community authorities’ have been recognised since 2002 following the passing of Decree 15 of 2000. This article examines the implementation and consequences for rural citizenship of this Decree of official recognition to traditional authorities, ‘secretários de bairro’ and other local leaders. Focusing particularly on traditional authorities, we argue that the Decree's community approach to representation both establishes new sites for the production of citizens and institutes a kind of group-based citizenship. It does this by incorporating the rural population into the nation state, not on the basis of the individual membership in the polis, but of membership in a territory-based community. Contrary to recent scholarly celebration of group-based citizenship as representing the accommodation of claims by marginalised groups from ‘below’, the Mozambican case provides an example of group-based citizenship as a ‘top-down’ strategy of the state to regulate and control rural territories and populations. We explore the political implications of this strategy and critically assess how the promise of increased participation of rural communities is being accompanied by a specific Frelimo-state version of the ideal moral citizen community. Criteria of inclusion and exclusion draw on war rhetoric from the 1980s, which presents the governing Frelimo party as pro-development and the opposition party, Renamo, and its supporters as aiming to destroy the positive gains achieved since the end of the civil war.

Editorial: Can American Cities be Sites of Citizenship? What Can we do About it?

Editorial: Can American Cities be Sites of Citizenship? What Can we do About it?

Leaving the academic towers: the Council of Europe and the Education for Democratic Citizenship Project

In recent years, there has been a revitalized interest in conceptions and practices of citizenship. This paper outlines and comments upon the first stage of the Council of Europe's Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) project that ran between 1997 and 2000. Involving the creation of ‘Sites of Citizenship’ in different countries, the EDC project sought ‘to actively engage in the process of finding out the new shape of democratic culture and the means by which individuals can creatively participate in its reproduction’. Although the EDC project is not yet completed, it is suggested that there are a number of distinctive, ‘risky’ and innovative features to the project that merit closer attention.

The Internet as a Site of Citizenship

Canada is a world leader in communications development and use and has been so since before its confederation as a state in 1867. Our prominence in this field is directly traceable to the challenges we have had to negotiate and must continue to negotiate in our development as a culture. • A combination of vast territory and small population dictates our need to negotiate culture across distance. • Geographical proximity to the most powerful nation in the world and one with which we share innumerable interests and similarities dictates our need to negotiate culture against erosion. • Cultural diversity, originating with two “founding” European nations imposed upon our resilient First Nations and nurtured by our history as an immigration destination of choice, dictates our need to negotiate culture within difference. Now home to a citizenry that can trace its origins to all corners of the globe, our nation has since 1982 enshrined our “multicultural heritage” in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. • An ethic and history of commitment to social justice dictates our necessity to negotiate our culture amongst issues of class, age, gender and differing abilities.

Who's Looking?

Drawing upon Indian cinema, one of the world's largest film industries whose storytelling structures seemingly refuse to adhere to what is known as the 'Hollywood mode of production', this essay expands on the political and cultural terrain that 'narrative' occupies in cultural theory. The term is seen as extending into a space of negotiation between spectators' demands for selfactualization and the 'how to read/see' instructions that can be seen as comprising the function of the narrator. As such it closely resembles, on a cultural terrain, the site of citizenship as one of negotiation, where constitutional rights are seen not so much as a given but rather as authenticator for their disbursal between the state, civil and political society, often to ends quite removed from their original meaning.