Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure
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Publication Date
2022Journal Title
Urban Studies
ISSN
0042-0980
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Volume
59
Issue
3
Pages
663-671
Language
en
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Article
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Lemanski, C. (2022). Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure. Urban Studies, 59 (3), 663-671. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211055301
Abstract
<jats:p> This afterword to the Urban Vulnerabilities: Infrastructure, Health and Stigma special issue highlights two cross-cutting themes that are addressed by all the articles in the issue, and that have the potential to make a significant contribution to debates within urban studies. First, I reflect on how the articles reveal the inseparable connections between infrastructure and stigma, demonstrating both as political and material processes that are inter-dependent and mutually constitutive. Consequently, it is urgent to bridge disciplinary siloes in bringing these scholarly debates into deeper conversation in ways that recognise the materiality of stigma and the politicisation of infrastructure (and vice versa). Second, to a greater and lesser extent, the articles all reveal the centrality of citizenship to the capacity of both urban dwellers and the state to negotiate and/or restrict access to infrastructure, and to perpetuate and/or challenge the impacts of stigma. While the connections between infrastructure and citizenship are explored in my recent work on infrastructural citizenship, the articles in this collection demonstrate the importance of temporality and scale in understanding how citizens negotiate their material and political rights. </jats:p>
Keywords
Special issue commentary: Infrastructural Stigma and Urban Vulnerability, citizenship, infrastructural citizenship, infrastructure, stigma, 公民身份, 基础设施公民身份, 基础设施, 污名
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10.1177_00420980211055301
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211055301
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/333657
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