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Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship

Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship

by Richard Marback
Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship
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Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship

Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship

by Richard Marback

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814340813
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 02/16/2015
Series: Series in Citizenship Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Richard Marback is a professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of Plato’s Dream of Sophistry and Managing Vulnerability: South Africa’s Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric. He is also co-editor of The Hope and the Legacy: The Past, Present, and Future of Students’ Right to Their Own Language.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series in Citizenship Studies ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Rethinking Age and Citizenship Richard Marback 1

I Age, Cohort, and Generation

1 Civic Renewal: Theory and Practice Peter Levine 17

2 "Appreciation and Elevation of Labor": Working-Class Youth and Middle-Class Citizenship Jane Fiegen Green 44

3 The Spectacle of a Farmer Bending Over a Washtub: Gendered Labor in the Preparation for Native American Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Arizona Amy Grey 67

4 He Wants to Take Them to Russia! American Courts and the Battle for Birth Citizens during the Cold War John W. Hink Jr. 93

II Young Age, Globalization, Migration

5 The Negotiation of Citizenship among Pakistani Youth in Great Britain: Intersections, Interventions, and Interactions Saeed A. Khan 115

6 Complicating Citizenship: How Children of Immigrants in Italy Represent Belonging and Rights Enzo Colombo 134

7 Children, Postconflict Processes, and Situated Cosmopolitanism Pauline Stoltz 157

III Generational Disparities and the Clash of Cultures

8 (Re)Claiming US Citizenship: Mexican American Repatriation in the 1930s and Mexican-Born Children Yuki Oda 187

9 The Challenge of ANC Youth from the Soweto Uprising to Julius Malema Richard Marback 209

10 Old Beurs, New Beurs, and French Citizenship Abdeldjalil Larbi Youcef 228

IV Later Life, Civic Engagement, Disenfranchisement

11 Is Participation Decline Inevitable as Generations Age? Insights from African American Elders Jennie Sweet-Cushman Mary Herring Lisa J. Ficker Cathy Lysack Marc W. Kruman Peter A. Lichtenberg 243

12 "Active Aging" as Citizenship in Poland Jessica C. Robbins-Ruszkowski 270

13 From Personal Care to Medical Care: The Problem of Old Age and the Rise of the Senior Solution, 1949-50 Tamara Mann 287

Conclusion Jessica C. Robbins-Ruszkowski Richard Marback 313

Contributors 323

Index 329

What People are Saying About This

Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino - Cherstin M. Lyon

Generations is clear, compelling, and expertly edited. Individual chapters share age and citizenship as a starting point but connect with other aspects of citizenship research that are timely and exceptionally important, including transnational and post-colonial citizenship, globalization, naturalization and denaturalization, civic engagement, and even health care. The authors of individual chapters engage with the arguments of other authors in the volume, tying even disparate topics together into a cohesive and highly readable book. Generations is accessible enough to use in the classroom and provocative enough to help inspire further research.

Gerson and Sabina David Professor of Global Aging and Professor of Social Work and History at the University of Houston - Andrew Achenbaum

Generations forces readers to reframe notions about clusters of associations and ideas associated with 'citizenship' in terms of race, gender, ethnicity/nationality, occupation, and class. And to this mix, Richard Marback and his colleagues by turns underscore the importance of age and aging, cohort, generation, and period on citizenship. This makes for a fascinating, illuminating, well-written collection of essays.

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