Political belonging comes to be equated with specific norms, values and appropriate behaviour, with distinctions made between virtuous, desirable citizens and deviant, undesirable ones. This book analyzes the formulation, implementation, and contestation of normative framings of citizenship, both in and beyond the nation-state, in a wide range of sites across the globe.

Martijn Koster is an assistant professor at the department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has conducted ethnographic research in Brazil and the Netherlands. His main research interests are citizen participation, political brokerage and urban development.

Rivke Jaffe is professor of Cities, Politics and Culture in the department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses primarily on intersections of the urban and the political, and includes a strong interest in the spatiality and materiality of urban inequalities.

Anouk de Koning is assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University, where she leads an ERC-funded project Reproducing Europe: Migrant Parenting and Contested Citizenship. She has worked in Cairo, Paramaribo and Amsterdam, researching how political regimes and public discourses impact people's everyday lives.

1. Citizenship agendas in and beyond the nation-state: (en)countering framings of the good citizen 2. Between ballots and bullets: elections and citizenship in and beyond the nation-state 3. Of ordinariness and citizenship processes 4. Citizenship agendas for the abject: the production of distrust in Amsterdam's youth and security domain 5. Muslim sound, public space, and citizenship agendas in an American City 6. Post-conflict reconstruction and citizenship agendas: lessons from Beirut 7. Vigilantes, gangsters, and alcohol: clashing citizenship regimes in postwar Guatemala 8. Citizenship agendas, urban governance and social housing in the Netherlands: an assemblage approach 9. Citizenship as horizon