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The Performativity of Urban Citizenship

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  • Adam M Pine

    (Department of Geography, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 317 Cina Hall, Duluth, MN 55805, USA)

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In this analysis I examine how Dominican grocery-store owners ( bodegueros ) in Philadelphia gain the ability to operate corner stores in predominantly African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods where they are often considered to be outsiders. A central element of the survival strategy of the grocers is to bend over backwards in order to serve their clients and ‘perform’ to the expectations of community residents. These actions disrupt discrete notions of community ‘outsider’ and ‘insider’ and suggest that urban citizenship is not a static positionality based solely on contestations with the state but, rather, an identity created by the interactions between the heterogenous elements of the modern city. I use the experience of the grocers to argue that our understanding of insurgent forms of citizenship must be attuned to this fluid definition of citizenship—one in which the relationships between different members of the polity is crucial.

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  • Adam M Pine, 2010. "The Performativity of Urban Citizenship," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 42(5), pages 1103-1120, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:42:y:2010:i:5:p:1103-1120
    DOI: 10.1068/a42193
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    1. Alba Angelucci, 2019. "Spaces of Urban Citizenship: Two European Examples from Milan and Rotterdam," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(4), pages 131-140.
    2. Melissa García-Lamarca, 2017. "From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing: Insurgent Practices in Spain," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(1), pages 37-53, January.

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