THE citizenship is the set of rights and duties exercised by an individual who lives in society, with regard to their power and degree of intervention in the use of its spaces and in its position in being able to intervene in it and transform it.
This expression comes from the Latin civitas, which means city. Previously, a citizen was one who was part of the city, having rights and duties for living in it. Currently, this concept goes beyond urban limits and can be understood in rural areas.
See too: Citizenship Concept
the expression of citizenship it is often associated with the field of Law, in which there is a series of legislation aimed at the rights and duties that the citizen has. Among the duties, the electoral vote (which is also a right), the zeal for space and compliance with the laws stand out. Among the rights, there is the right to come and go, as well as to have access to health, housing, food and education.
The concept of citizenship is also related to the individual's nationality, that is, to the legality of his stay in a certain territory administered by a National State. There is talk, for example, of Brazilian citizenship, Portuguese citizenship and American citizenship.
In cases of non-compliance with the duties, the individual may have part of his citizenship revoked, the example of inmates who have the right to vote vetoed, among other limitations imposed by law criminal.
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See too: What is Democracy?
The Citizen and the Right to Space
If, in the field of law, we are all citizens, in practice, does this happen? In other words, about the benefit of using the space between our rights, are we all citizens? Unfortunately, not all. There are many individuals who legally possess citizenship, but who do not have the social, structural and material conditions to exercise it.
There are many authors in the scope of Philosophy and Social Sciences, such as Henri Lefebvre, Theodor Adorno and many others, who behave critically under the pretense that all individuals are citizens. First, many are socially excluded due to the inequalities generated by the capitalist production system. Second, there is often the reification – that is, the reification, the transformation of being into a commodity – of the figure of the citizen in contemporary society.
the geographer Milton Santos – in your work The Citizen Space - states that "In place of the citizen, a consumer was formed, who accepts being called a user", that is, the process of capitalist production and reproduction transformed the individual into a consumer and citizenship relations into disputes for the space of City.
By Me. Rodolfo Alves Pena
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PENA, Rodolfo F. Alves. "What is citizenship?"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/o-que-e/geografia/o-que-e-cidadania.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
