LIBSPOSSOC 245: City and Citizenship 02042004

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• Course Agenda Today.
• Questions from last week?
• Website http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/erickson/cou
  rses/pos245spr04/.
• Readings/Lecture.
• Definitions of citizenship.
• Definitions of cities Pacione.
• Harrigan and Vogel.
• Spinney and early history of Chicago.
• Presentations and Exam Format.
• Presentations.
• Examples from previous semester.
• Guidelines.
• Exams. Exam Guides and expectations.

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• Definitions of Citizenship.
• Historically contingent.
• Varies according to regime type.
• Overlapping dimensions of citizenship.
• Levels of Analysis.
• Immediate Neighbors.
• Neighborhood.
• City.
• State/Province/County.
• Nation-State.
• Regional.
• Global.
• Globalization (21st century and previous epochs
  of globalization) produces unique problematics
  for both governance and citizenship.

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• Citizenship continued.
• Aspects of Citizenship.
• Loyalty.
• Virtue.
• Civics.
• Discipline.
• Subsidiarity.
• City as site of intense citizenship.
• Proximity of governance and problems.
• Daily contact with government.
• CTA.
• Traffic.
• Police.
• Taxation.
• Public Works/Infrastructure.

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• Citizenship historical origins.
• Greek polites and polis.
• Latin civis and civitas.
• Citizen member of political community.
• Citizen, Subject, Slave.
• Citizen entitled to participate in political
  regulation/governance of city.
• Citizen at core a legal status.
• Self governing member of a self-governed
  community.
• Linkage between citizenship and nation-state.
• Nation-states an agglomeration or network of
  interacting cities.

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• Enemies of Citizenship.
• Size and the limits of participation.
• Greek polis.
• 21st century Chicago.
• Fragmentation of governance.
• Jurisdictional.
• Functional.
• School Districts, Police and Fire Protection,
  Transit, Port Authorities, Mosquito Abatement,
  etc.
• Consequences.
• Bewildering array of governmental structures.
• Apathy, Isolation.
• Mobility.
• America, and other nation-states, highly mobile
  populations.
• Mobility weakens and complicates loyalty.

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• Cities in Global Context.
• Pacione and urban (political) geography.
• Location.
• Distribution of cities.
• Socio-spatial similarities and differences.
• Spatial meaning physical/material structure of
  city.
• Complexity - Pacione Figure 1.1, p. 4-5.
• Trigger factors.
• Economy.
• Dominant force/influence for urban change.
• Capitalist economies.
• 16th to late 19th centuries competitive
  capitalism.
• Late 19th to WWII organized capitalism Fordism.
• Post-WWII to present advanced, disorganized,
  globalized capitalism.

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• Trigger Factors (continued).
• Technology.
• Economic, political, and cultural changes.
• Linked to Kondratieff cycles/waves.
• Examples of technological change and impact of
  urbanization.
• Demography.
• Population growth.
• Migration - population movement.
• Politics.
• Regime type and city development, regulation, and
  urban distribution.
• Capitalist, Socialist, Fascist, Authoritarian.
• Urban policy and late 20th early 21st political
  movements.
• Right/Conservative governments in US and UK.

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• Trigger Factors (continued).
• Society.
• Segregation/Discrimination/Repression.
• Southern/Northern US cities.
• South African Apartheid and post-apartheid.
• San Cristobol de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
• Moscow and Chechens.
• Culture.
• Gentrification.
• Counter-cultures and commodification.
• Postmodern Urbanism.
• Environment.
• Global warming.
• Natural disasters.
• Pollution.

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• Globalization and the City.
• Forms of Globalization.
• Economic, Political, Cultural.
• Characteristics of globalization.
• Globalization not new - acceleration of dynamics
  new.
• Intensification of global social relations.
• Global-local nexus.
• Dialectic relationship city and global.
• Local institutions mediate the global.
• Economic trigger dominant.
• Uneven impact of globalization.
• Uneven response (political).
• Mobility of Capital.
• Global cities residence for agents command,
  control and finance global economy (TNCs).

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• Space and Scale.

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• Slide 11.

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• Slide 12.

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• Slide 13.