Generations
Subtitle: rethinking age and citizenship
By: edited by Richard Marback
Series: Series in citizenship studies; Series in citizenship studies
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Detroit, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780814340813; 9780814340806
Subjects: Citizenship; Age; Political aspects; Political participation; Human rights; Civil rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Political Freedom & Security; Civil Rights; Human Rights
Description: 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.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed 7/6/17).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Series in Citizenship Studies; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rethinking Age and Citizenship; I. Age, Cohort, and Generation; 1. Civic Renewal: Theory and Practice; 2. "Appreciation and Elevation of Labor": Working-Class Youth and Middle-Class Citizenship; 3. The Spectacle of a Farmer Bending Over a Washtub: Gendered Labor in the Preparation for Native American Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Arizona; 4. He Wants to Take Them to Russia! American Courts and the Battle for Birth Citizens during the Cold War.; title: II. Young Age, Globalization, Migration5. The Negotiation of Citizenship among Pakistani Youth in Great Britain: Intersections, Interventions, and Interactions; 6. Complicating Citizenship: How Children of Immigrants in Italy Represent Belonging and Rights; 7. Children, Postconflict Processes, and Situated Cosmopolitanism; III. Generational Disparities and the Clash of Cultures; 8. (Re)Claiming US Citizenship: Mexican American Repatriation in the 1930s and Mexican-Born Children; 9. The Challenge of ANC Youth from the Soweto Uprising to Julius Malema.; title: 10. Old Beurs, New Beurs, and French CitizenshipIV. Later Life, Civic Engagement, Disenfranchisement; 11. Is Participation Decline Inevitable as Generations Age? Insights from African American Elders; 12. "Active Aging" as Citizenship in Poland; 13. From Personal Care to Medical Care: The Problem of Old Age and the Rise of the Senior Solution, 1949-50; Conclusion; Contributors; Index.