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Although contemporary literature on the global city has discussed space, consumption, & exchange in relation to citizenship, it has overlooked the significance of class conflict & the connection between certain professions & class. Current scholarship is charged with reducing the capital-labor conflict to one between an elite & an underclass, & with failing to account for the emergence of new class relations. Here, several trends in global city literature that illustrate the reductionist nature of such scholarship are identified, eg, the association of the professional-managerial class with the elite. Informed by Pierre Bourdieu's (eg, 1986) studies of different forms of capital, it is asserted that the notion of cultural capital plays an important role in understanding how new classes emerged in the advanced capitalist system. Several issues for citizenship created by the emergence of additional professions in the global city are raised; eg, professionals' rights are located within their professions, not their citizenship. 66 References. J. W. Parker

Establishes a theoretical framework, outlines empirical research toward a genealogy of the citizen, & argues that a genealogy would focus on the conditions of citizenship, rather than its content (rights & obligations) & extent (eligibility criteria). Class, territory, & capital are discribed as such conditions & significant episodes in which these conditions created different ideal types of citizen are outlined, eg, warrior-citizen, patrician-citizen, & worker-citizen. In each episode, a genealogy would focus on the emergence of differential class powers resulting from the ownership of different forms of capital that condition the territorial as well as the legal & moral boundaries of citizenship. The thesis of genealogy as a history of the present is defended discussing how significant contemporary changes in class, territory, & capital are creating a new type of citizen yet to be defined. 37 References. Adapted from the source document.

Doing things with words and saying words with things -- Citizens and cyberspace -- Speech acts and digital acts -- Participating, connecting, sharing -- Filtering, tracking, normalizing -- Witnessing, hacking, commoning -- Making digital rights claims -- Digital citizens yet to come.

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