Engin F. Isin (ed.) - Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City

Does the city have a future in democracy? With economic, cultural and social globalization, new spaces of democracy have been created with which individuals and groups identify, and which constitute themselves as political and social agents. While the cyberspace of the internet and international organizations such as the IMF, UN, World Bank, the European Union and Greenpeace receive widespread attention, the bedrock of democracy and citizenship, the city, has been neglected in the popular media and in scholarship.

Globalization is now contesting the sovereignty claimed by the nation-state. This state is under increasing pressure from multinational organizations and corporations, as well as sub-national regions, territories and cities. Yet, rather than declaring its death and creating a nostalgic image of the city-state as it existed before the nation-state, the task of political and social theory is to articulate empirically founded but normative ideas about how the city must be rethought as a space of democracy in the global era.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City is an innovative and influential collection of essays featuring contributions from prominent social and political theorists: Robert A. Beauregard, Anna Bounds, Janine Brodie, Richard Dagger, Gerard Delanty, Judith A. Garber, Robert j. Holton, Warren Magnusson, Raymond Rocco, Nikolas Rose, Evelyn S. Ruppert, Saskia Sassen, Bryan S. Turner, John Urry, Gerda R. Wekerle and Nira Yuval-Davis.

Engin F. Isin is Associate Professor at York University, Canada.

Daniel Drache
Series Editor

Harold Innis, one of Canada's most distinguished economists, described the Canadian experience as no one else ever has. His visionary works in economic geography, political economy and communications theory have endured for over fifty years and have had tremendous influence on scholarship, the media and the business community.

The volumes in the Innis Centenary Series illustrate and expand Innis's legacy. Each volume is written and edited by distinguished members of the fields Innis touched. Each addresses provocative and challenging issues that have profound implications not only for Canada but for the 'new world order', including the impact of globalization on governance, international development and national decision-making; interactions among the state, social movements and the environment; the nature of the 'market' in the future; the effect of new communications technology on economic restructuring; and the role of the individual in effecting positive social change.

The complete series will provide a unique guide to many of the major challenges we face as we enter the twenty-first century.

The Innis Centenary Series is supported by the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and York University. Proposals for future volumes in the series are actively encouraged and most welcome. Please address all enquiries to the editor, by email drache@yorku,ca or by fax 1.416.736.5739.

Other titles in the series include:
States Against Markets
Edited by Robert Boyer and Daniel Drache

Political Ecology
Edited by David Bell, Leesa Fawcett, Roger Keil and Peter Penz

Health Reform
Edited by Daniel Drache and Terry Sullivan

Edited by
Engin F. Isin

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Democracy, citizenship, and the global city / [edited by] Engin F. Isin.
p.cm. (Innis centenary series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Municipal government 2. Cities and towns. 3. Citizenship.
4. Democracy. 5. Globalization.
I. Isin, Engin F. (Engin Fahri), 1959- II. Series
JS67 .D45 2000
321.8dc21 00025432

ISBN 0-415-21667-2 (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-21668-0 (pbk)

Robert A. Beauregard , Professor, New School for Social Research, New York, USA.

Anna Bounds , Ph.D. Candidate, New School for Social Research, New York, USA.

Janine Brodie , Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Richard Dagger , Professor, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

Gerard Delanty , Professor, Department of Sociology, University ot Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Judith A. Garber , Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Robert J. Holton , Professor, Department of Sociology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

Engin F. Isin , Associate Professor, Division of Social Science and Graduate Programmes in Sociology, Political Science, Social and Political Thought, and Geography, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Warren Magnusson , Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

Raymond Rocco , Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.

Nikolas Rose , Professor, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK.

Evelyn S. Ruppert , Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Saskia Sassen , Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.