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March 18, 2026AUC KINANTHROPOLOGICAOpen Access

Citizenship as a relational field: interests and identities across cleavages and seams

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MCManlio Cinalli

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Overview

This analysis proposes a new framework for understanding citizenship, emphasizing relational dynamics among citizens and authority.

Key Points

  • The paper aims to redefine citizenship by exploring its relational aspects between citizens and political authority, as well as among citizens themselves.
  • Ontological reconstruction of citizenship
  • Genealogical insights from ancient Greece and Rome
  • Analysis of vertical and horizontal relationships
  • Development of a bi-dimensional field with ideal-types
  • Identified four ideal-types of relational citizenship: subjectship, democratic, liberal-clientelist, and full citizenship.
  • Emphasized that interests and identities shape the dynamics of citizenship rather than obstruct it.
  • Highlighted relational seams as key to understanding the strength of citizenship.

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Manlio Cinalli (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ba434a4e9516ffd37a45e3https://doi.org/10.14712/23366052.2026.2
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