Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West investigates some of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century, including the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, migrants, and the young, as well as the dampening effects some government responses to COVID-19 have had on artistic freedom and citizen participation. The ill effects of digitisation on citizenship, however, are tempered by some more positive approaches from grass-roots activities. Perhaps the most acute challenge facing the world today is climate change, an issue that can be both positive and negative, depending on how we respond to it. All the papers in this book share a people-centred approach based around Michel Foucault’s Care of the Self.

Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint, the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (2013), Asian Cities: Colonial to Global (2015), Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2020), and Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2019).

Paul Rabé is Academic Coordinator of the Cities Cluster at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden as well as overall coordinator of the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) and the River Cities Network: Engaging with Waterways in the Anthropocene (RCN). Paul is also series editor of Amsterdam University Press’s Asian Cities Book Series, and is Lead Expert in Urban Land Governance at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he is also joint coordinator of the Urban Environment, Sustainability, and Climate Change academic track. A political scientist by training, with a doctoral degree (2009) in policy, planning and development from the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, Paul has over 25 years of experience in advisory work, capacity development, research, and teaching on urban policy topics, focused on urban land governance and the intersection of land (use) and the management of water and water bodies in urban and peri-urban areas.

Nurul Azreen Azlan is an NUS Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her academic focus leans towards the politics of space, where she is predominantly interested in the availability of space for people to participate in public life. As such, she is interested in how and why spaces and infrastructure are produced and governed in relation to politics, the impact of privatisation of public goods, and how historical processes, particularly colonisation, has shaped the resultant built environment and spatial practices. At NUS, she is researching the socio-spatial impact of land reclamation in Malaysia. She is currently on sabbatical leave from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

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Introduction - Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé, Nurul Azreen Azlan
Part 1: Citizens’ Rights
1. Finding Our Voice: Returning to People’s Ordinary Practices of Care in Discussions of Indigenous Citizenship in Tokyo and Montreal, - Mark Watson
2. Ethical Citizenship in the Configuration of Market Socialism: Values and Sacrifices of Women Working in the NGO Sector in Post-Reform Vietnam, -Binh Thi An Trinh
3.Practicing Citizenship in Urban China: A Case Study of Migrant Activism, - Jun Chu
4. Youth Leadership and Urban Citizenship in Indonesian Cities, - Lily Song, John Taylor, Fildzah Husna Amalina
Part 2: Covid-19 and its Responses
5. ‘Don’t say that!’ Artistic Freedom and Citizen Responses to Covid-19 in Southeast Asia, - Julie Trébault, Manojna Yeluri
6. The Disproportionate Effects of Covid-19 on Citizen Participation in Nepal, - Vishnu Kumari Tandon
7. Clashes Between Government Covid-19 Measures and Citizens’ Freedom: A Comparative Study of the Netherlands and Vietnam, - Seohee Kwak
8. Reclaiming Democratic Citizenship While Tackling Covid-19 in South Korea, - Suk-Ki Kong, Hyun-Chin Lim
Part 3: Future Challenges
9. Cambodia’s New ‘Ecological Citizens’: Looking at Environmental Activism in the Kingdom Today, - Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier
10. ‘Green’ Citizenship and the Depoliticization of Environmental Governance in Urban China, - Virginie Arantes
11. Reclaiming the Streets from the Apps? Rethinking Future Practices of Urban Citizenship in the Digital Age: Perspectives from Vietnam, - Marie Gibert-Flutre, Guillaume Trân Huu, and Quê Trân Dinh
12. Care of the Self as a Spatial Practice: Digital Tools Supporting the Physical Activities of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, - Caterina Villani, Barui Kurniawan Waruwu, Kin Wai Michael Siu
Epilogue: Citizenship in the Digital Age, - Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé, Nurul Azreen Azlan