Tactical Citizenships

Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus

Theodoros Kouros (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-680-2 (ISBN)

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The idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence of formal rights and duties. It is recurring in everyday social contexts—in practices that play out in the real world, in the everyday exercises or refusals of citizenship rights, in the purposeful defiance of norms, and in the tactical evasions of duties. This book explores the troubled relationship between a state and its citizens across four different kinds of social spaces in Limassol, Cyprus. Tactical Citizenships is a testament to the tenacity and resourcefulness of marginalized individuals in directing their relations with the state.

Theodoros Kouros is a Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology. He has conducted long-term ethnographic research on the islands of Lesbos and Samos (Greece), along the Greek-Albanian border (Epirus, Gjirokastër and Korçë) and in Limassol, Cyprus.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Everyday Citizenship in the Republic of Cyprus

Chapter 1. Domestic Space: Mapping the Common Ground between Home and State

Chapter 2. Commercial Space: Who Wants to Be the Bad Guy in the Parea?

Chapter 3. Public Space: Weapons of the Strong?

Chapter 4. Bureaucratic Space: Patients of the State

Conclusion: Tactical Citizenships

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Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-680-3 / 1805396803
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-680-2 / 9781805396802
Zustand	Neuware