Cities, citizens, citizenship
The topic dedicated to urban politics is associated with “Cities and Citizenship in Portugal”, a collaborative research project with the Department of Sociology of the University of Chicago, based at the Institute of Social Sciences and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
The main goal is to analyze political behaviour and civic norms in urban contexts, using the Lisbon metropolitan area as a reference point for international comparisons. One of the main findings is the rise of a new style of politics in Portugal’s main urban centre. This new political culture has been replacing and complementing old “class politics” all over the world since the 1970s. Crucial to this international framing has been the collaboration with the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project led by Terry N. Clark of the University of Chicago.
This work on cities and citizenship has provided him with a strategic context in which to apply some of his social theoretical ideas, with an emphasis on the notion of a trans-scalar and performative conception of citizenship.
References
Cidade & Cidadania (2008)
Silva, Filipe Carreira da, Aboim, Sofia, Saraiva, Tiago (2008). Participação Cívica e Vida Urbana em Portugal. In Cabral, Manuel Villaverde, Silva, Filipe Carreira da e Saraiva, Tiago (Eds.), Cidade e Cidadania - Governança Urbana e Participação Cidadã (pp. 243-269). Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais [document (pdf)]
Silva, Filipe Carreira da, Ramirez, Maria Antonia, Vieira, Mónica Brito (2008). Classe, Cidade e Poder. Nova Classe Média, Valores Políticos e Cidades Globais. In Cabral, Manuel Villaverde, Silva, Filipe Carreira da, Saraiva, Tiago (Eds.), Cidade e Cidadania - Governança Urbana e Participação Cidadã (pp. 295-315). Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais
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Silva, Filipe Carreira da, Vieira, Mónica Brito (2008). Cidadania Trans-Escalar - O Estado, a Cidade Global e o Cidadão. In Villaverde, Manuel, Wall, Karin, Aboim, Sofia e Silva, Filipe Carreira da (Eds.), Itinerários: A Investigação nos 25 Anos do ICS (pp. 171-189). Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais
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Cabral, Manuel Villaverde, Silva, Filipe Carreira da, Saraiva, Tiago (2008). Introdução. In Manuel Villaverde Cabral, Filipe Carreira da Silva, Tiago Saraiva (Eds.), Cidade & Cidadania: Governança Urbana e Participação Cidadã (pp. 17-28). Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais
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Cabral, Manuel Villaverde, Silva, Filipe Carreira da (2007). Ciudad y Ciudadanía (en Portugal): El "Efecto-Metrópolis" Sobre el Ejercicio de la Ciudadanía Política. In Clark, T. N. e Navarro, C. J. (Eds.), Nueva Cultura Política (pp. 311-333). Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila Editores
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Clark, Terry N., Silva, Filipe Carreira da (2009). Revisiting Tocqueville: Citizenship Norms, Political Repertoires, and Cultural Participation. In Mohamed Cherkaoui and Peter Hamilton (Eds.), Raymond Boudon. A Life in Sociology (pp. 247-278). Oxford: Bardwell Press [document (pdf)]