This book focuses on the controversial and neglected theme of citizenship. It examines the changing role of citizens, their rights, obligations and responsibilities and the issue of accountability in a global society.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Engin F. Isin; Part 1 Citizenship, sovereignty, politics; Chapter 2 Metropolis, memory and citizenship, Richard Dagger; Chapter 3 The global city, Saskia Sassen; Chapter 4 Global flows and global citizenship, John Urry; Chapter 5 The resurgence of the city in Europe?, Gerard Delanty; Part 2 Government, virtue, power; Chapter 6 Governing cities, governing citizens, Nikolas Rose; Chapter 7 Imagining democratic urban citizenship, Janine Brodie; Chapter 8 Cosmopolitan virtue, Bryan S. Turner; Chapter 9 Governing cities without government, Engin F. Isin; Part 3 Difference, identity, city; Chapter 10 Citizenship, territoriality and the gendered construction of difference, Nira Yuval-Davis; Chapter 11 Multicultural citizenship, Robert J. Holton; Chapter 12 Women's rights to the city, Gerda R. Wekerle; Chapter 13 Associational rights-claims, civil society and place, Raymond Rocco; Part 4 Globalism, politics, city; Chapter 14 Urban citizenship, Robert A Beauregard, Anna Bounds; Chapter 15 The city as a heroic public sphere, Judith A. Garber; Chapter 16 Who governs the global city?, Evelyn S. Ruppert; Chapter 17 Politicizing the global city, Warren Magnusson;