Ciudadanía y espacio público en la era de la globalización neoliberal

Abstract

The profound economic, social and political reforms in contemporary migration societies are seriously tackling the scope of civil, social and political rights of citizenship. In this article, we refer to the concept of citizenship through four dimensions that enlarge its theoretical content and transcend the historical rationality of rights, duties and the State: (a) citizenship as a collective subject that is being permeated by (neoliberal) logics of producing urban spaces; (b) citizenship as a power relation expressed by politics of scale; (c) citizenship as a discursive mechanism that articulates identity and place through politics of belonging; and (d) citizenship interpreted through acts that challenge the multiple dimensions of domination. This conceptualisation helps to outline the conceptualization of acts of citizenship that demand a re-appropriation of public space and, in general terms, the public sphere, aiming at constructing new spaces of citizenship.