Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies

Further information and Proposal form

The Handbook provides a global perspective on citizenship studies and aims to set a new agenda for the field. We are at a crucial moment of ‘globalizing’ citizenship studies as a field.

How is the Handbook Organized?

The Handbook is divided into seven major parts: (i) approaching citizenship; (ii) Africas; (iii) Americas; (iv) Asias; (v) Europes; (vi) Diasporicity; and (vii) Indigenity. Parts II to V are divided by broad continental descriptions: Africas, Americas, Asias, and Europes. Parts VI and VII are dedicated to deterritorialized yet geographic questions of citizenship: Indigenous peoples whose existence has been sequestered by citizenship regimes and diasporic peoples whose movements are regulated by citizenship regimes.

Each part will be subdivided into the categories outlined below.

Part I will be subdivided into three categories:

·  perspectives used to describe citizenship;

·  methods deployed to investigate citizenship;

·  regimes of citizenship.

Parts II to VII will be subdivided into the following six categories.

·  Contexts will provide a background to issues that shape the field at present and provide context for interpreting it.

·  Origins will provide historical background of the way in which citizenship as a discourse emerged.

·  Developments will provide a background of formations and transformations of citizenship regimes in a given geographic region and the convergence or divergence of their trajectories.

·  Forms will feature chapters that outline the main forms of citizenship as they emerged and developed and how they may have converged or diverged in a given geographic region. By forms we mean specifically forms of citizenship such as civil, political, social, sexual, ecological, cosmopolitan, and other forms.

·  Events will provide significant turning points and transformations that mark divergences and convergences of citizenship in a given region. These events are indispensable to understanding the institutionalization and functioning of citizenship as discourse.

·  Anticipations will highlight developments and their trajectories in a given geographic region. We will encourage authors to think boldly about what they think will be the defining features of emerging citizenship regimes in each geographic region.

Guidance for Chapter Proposals

Please complete all sections of the form below. It is important that you indicate the part and subcategory of the Handbook for which you are making a submission (refer to the section above for more details).

In addition to a provisional title, you should provide an abstract for your chapter. At the end of the form include a brief professional biography of yourself. This should outline the ways in which you are qualified to write about the topic you have selected. Please keep to the word limits outlined in the form of 500 words for the abstract and 300 words for the biography. Proposals that exceed the word limit will not be considered.

Please return this form to Jack Harrington at by Tuesday, 20 March 2012, using the words ‘Global Handbook’ in the title of your email. Please do not hesitate to contact us at the same email address is you have any queries about the Handbook.

Thank you for your interest.

Best Wishes,

Engin Isin

Peter Nyers


Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies Proposal Form

Name / Organisational Affiliation
Contact email address
Section of the Handbook (e.g. Asias, Anticipations)
Chapter Title
Abstract (500 Words Maximum)
Professional Biography (300 Words Maximum)
·  Proposals that exceed the word limit will not be considered.
·  Please return this form to by Tuesday, 20 March 2012.
·  The words ‘Global Handbook’ should appear in the title of all email correspondence.

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