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Claim-making - the everyday strategies through which citizens pursue rights fulfilment - is often overlooked in studies of political behavior, which tend to focus on highly visible, pivotal moments: elections, mass protests, high court decisions, legislative decisions. But what of the politics of the everyday? This Element takes up this question, drawing together research from Colombia, South Africa, India, and Mexico. The authors argue that claim-making is a distinct form of citizenship practice characterized by its everyday nature, which is neither fully programmatic nor clientelistic; and which is prevalent in settings marked by gaps between the state's de jure commitments to rights and their de facto realization. Under these conditions, claim making is both meaningful (there are rights to be secured) and necessary (fulfillment is far from guaranteed). Claim-making of this kind is of critical consequence, both materially and politically, with the potential to shape how citizens engage (or disengage) the state.

Citizenship. --- Political rights. --- Politics, Practical.

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Citizenship --- Nation-state. --- Nation-state

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Quelles sont les tensions et les contradictions qui bousculent les contours établis de la citoyenneté démocratique ? Telle est ici la question. Pour répondre, le livre examine les luttes façonnant l’histoire de la citoyenneté démocratique et, surtout, les paradoxes et dilemmes que ces histoires nous ont laissés en héritage. Il étudie les formes contemporaines de la « citoyenneté critique » où la contestation va de pair avec des aspirations très fortes au changement, soulevant la question de leur radicalité, de leur rapport à la démocratie et au « populisme ». Il analyse la place donnée à l’action par les mobilisations sociales dans différents contextes nationaux, ainsi que le lien entre démocratisation et citoyenneté « par le bas ».Il contribue ainsi à appréhender la citoyenneté par ses marges en montrant comment elle s’y actualise, et en instruisant la question d’une démocratie « hors d’elle » où agir en « citoyen du monde » implique de prendre au sérieux l’inévitable part de conflictualité de la citoyenneté démocratique.

Citizenship --- Political rights --- Democracy --- Government, Resistance to

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"After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life. While leadership in India claimed the anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilizational legacy in the subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim history and political tradition from a millennium long history of cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence. Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping history of the country's formative period. Qasmi paints a rich picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while also simultaneously narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state - such as the exact color of the flag, the precise date of birth of the national poet of Pakistan, and the observation of Eid as a "national festival" - that provides an illuminating analysis of the practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history in the subcontinent."

Nationalism --- Citizenship --- History --- Pakistan --- Politics and government