(Un)thinking Citizenship

The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of rights-claiming issues of institutional representation bodily integrity in the face of violence and care in the face of a lack of care. This volume takes the debate of citizenship in South Africa in a more theoretical and empirical direction while engaging with knowledge produced elsewhere in the world. As part of the Gender in a Local/Global World series it investigates the making of gendered citizenship institutionalization of gender politics the state of gendered policy making local citizenship rights the women's movement gendered violence as well as citizenship and the body.