Afterword: Citizenship and the politics of (im)material stigma and infrastructure

Charlotte Lemanski

Urban Studies, 2022, vol. 59, issue 3, 663-671

Abstract: This afterword to the Urban Vulnerabilities: Infrastructure, Health and Stigma special issue highlights two cross-cutting themes that are addressed by all the articles in the issue, and that have the potential to make a significant contribution to debates within urban studies. First, I reflect on how the articles reveal the inseparable connections between infrastructure and stigma, demonstrating both as political and material processes that are inter-dependent and mutually constitutive. Consequently, it is urgent to bridge disciplinary siloes in bringing these scholarly debates into deeper conversation in ways that recognise the materiality of stigma and the politicisation of infrastructure (and vice versa). Second, to a greater and lesser extent, the articles all reveal the centrality of citizenship to the capacity of both urban dwellers and the state to negotiate and/or restrict access to infrastructure, and to perpetuate and/or challenge the impacts of stigma. While the connections between infrastructure and citizenship are explored in my recent work on infrastructural citizenship, the articles in this collection demonstrate the importance of temporality and scale in understanding how citizens negotiate their material and political rights.

Keywords: citizenship; infrastructural citizenship; infrastructure; stigma; 公民身份; 基础设施公民身份; 基础设施; 污å (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980211055301

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