TY - JOUR
T1 - Dreaming the ordinary
T2 - Daily life and the complex geographies of citizenship
AU - Staeheli, Lynn A.
AU - Ehrkamp, Patricia
AU - Leitner, Helga
AU - Nagel, Caroline R.
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - This paper introduces the concept of 'ordinary' to analyze citizenship's complexities. Ordinary is often taken to mean standard or routine, but it also invokes order and authority. Conceptualizing citizenship as ordinary trains our attention on the ways in which the spatiality of laws and social norms are entwined with daily life. The idea of ordinariness fuses legal structures, normative orders and the experiences of individuals, social groups and communities, making citizenship both a general category and a contingent resource for political life. We explore this argument using immigrants as an example, but the conceptualization of citizenship extends more broadly.
AB - This paper introduces the concept of 'ordinary' to analyze citizenship's complexities. Ordinary is often taken to mean standard or routine, but it also invokes order and authority. Conceptualizing citizenship as ordinary trains our attention on the ways in which the spatiality of laws and social norms are entwined with daily life. The idea of ordinariness fuses legal structures, normative orders and the experiences of individuals, social groups and communities, making citizenship both a general category and a contingent resource for political life. We explore this argument using immigrants as an example, but the conceptualization of citizenship extends more broadly.
KW - citizenship
KW - daily life
KW - law
KW - ordinary
KW - social norms
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U2 - 10.1177/0309132511435001
DO - 10.1177/0309132511435001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866546720
SN - 0309-1325
VL - 36
SP - 628
EP - 644
JO - Progress in Human Geography
JF - Progress in Human Geography
IS - 5
ER -