The meaning of citizenship and the way that it is expressed by an individual varies with age, develops over time, and is often learned by interacting with members of other generations. In Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship, editor Richard Marback presents contributions that explore this...
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The meaning of citizenship and the way that it is expressed by an individual varies with age, develops over time, and is often learned by interacting with members of other generations. In Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship, editor Richard Marback presents contributions that explore this temporal dimension of membership in political communities through a variety of rich disciplinary perspectives. While the role of human time and temporality receive less attention in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship than do spatial dynamics of location and movement, Generations demonstrates that these factors are central to a full understanding of citizenship issues. Essays in Generations are organized into four sections: Age, Cohort, and Generation; Young Age, Globalization, Migration; Generational Disparities and the Clash of Cultures; and Later Life, Civic Engagement, Disenfranchisement. Contributors visit a range of geographic locations-including the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Africa-and consider the experiences of citizens who are native born, immigrant, and repatriated, in time periods that range from the nineteenth century to the present. Taken together, the diverse contributions in this volume illustrate the ways in which personal experiences of community membership change as we age, and also explore how experiences of civic engagement can and do change from one generation to the next. Teachers and students of citizenship studies, cultural studies, gerontology, sociology, and political science will enjoy this thought-provoking look at age, aging, and generational differences in relation to the concept and experience of citizenship.i. Age, Cohort, and Generation1. Civic Renewal: Theory and Practice by Peter Levine2. Appreciation and Elevation of Labor : Working-Class Youth and Middle-ClassCitizenship by Jane Fiegen Green3. The Spectacle of a Farmer Bending Over a Washtub: Gendered Labor in thePreparation for Native American Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Arizona by Amy Grey4. He Wants to Take Them to Russia! American Courts and the Battle for BirthCitizens during the Cold War by John W. Hink Jr.ii. Young Age, Globalization, Migration5. The Negotiation of Citizenship among Pakistani Youth in Great Britain: Intersections, Interventions, and Interactions by Saeed A. Khan6. Complicating Citizenship: How Children of Immigrants in Italy RepresentBelonging and Rights by Enzo Colombo7. Children, Postconflict Processes, and Situated Cosmopolitanism by Pauline Stoltziii. Generational Disparities and the Clash of Cultures8. (Re)Claiming US Citizenship: Mexican American Repatriation in the 1930sand Mexican-Born Children by Yuki Oda9. The Challenge of ANC Youth from the Soweto Uprising to Julius Malema by Richard Marback10. Old Beurs, New Beurs, and French Citizenship by Ab deldjalil Larbi Youcefiv. Later Life, Civic Engagement, Disenfranchisement11. Is Participation Decline Inevitable as Generations Age? Insights from AfricanAmerican Elders by Jennie Sweet-Cushman, Mary Herring, Lisa J. Ficker, Cathy Lysack, Marc W. Kruman, Peter A. Lichtenberg12. Active Aging as Citizenship in Poland by Jessica C. Robbins-Ru szkowski13. From Personal Care to Medical Care: The Problem of Old Age and the Rise ofthe Senior Solution, 1949 50 by Tamara MannConclusion by Jessica C. Robbins-Ruszkowski and Richard Marback
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