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SUMMARY:State of Citizenship: Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement a
 nd Citizen Action - Professor Andrea Cornwall\, Institute of Development S
 tudies Sussex University
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CONTACT:Gabriela Martinez
DESCRIPTION:This paper argues that efforts to enhance citizen engagement n
 eed to be contextualised in respect of the states of citizenship in the co
 ntexts in which they are applied\, and calls for more attention to be focu
 sed on understanding trajectories of citizenship experience and practice i
 n particular kinds of states. It suggests that those working in internatio
 nal development should pay more attention to the implications of the disso
 nance between the normative dimensions of global narratives of participati
 on and accountability and the lived experience of civic engagement and the
  empirical realities of ‘civil society’ in particular states. By explo
 ring instantiations of citizen engagement in different settings\, the pape
 r reflects on what citizenship comes to imply in these contexts. In doing 
 so\, it draws attention to the diverse ways in which particular subject-po
 sitions and forms of identification are articulated in the pursuit of conc
 rete social and political projects. 
LOCATION:Senior Common Room\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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