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In their introduction to the special issue of Public Culture on cities and citizenship, James Holston and Arjun Appadurai were situating cities as ‘especially privileged sites for considering the current negotiations of citizenship’ (Holston and Appadurai, 1996: 188). They urged for further investigation ‘which considers that cities are challenging, diverging from, and even replacing nations as the important space of citizenship – as the lived space not only of its uncertainties but also of its emergent forms’ (ibid.). Their main argument was that
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Aksoy, A. (2006). London and the Project of Urban Cosmopolitanism. In: Meinhof, U.H., Triandafyllidou, A. (eds) Transcultural Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504318_5
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