Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 93-110

Journal: Citizenship Studies

Volume number: 24

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1362-1025

eISSN: 1469-3593

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2019.1691150

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
This paper critically interrogates the notion of 'citizenship' from the politically-charged perspective of Russian speakers in Estonia. Drawing on a broad range of critical citizenship literatures, and ethnographic examples from the borderland city of Narva, we propose re- and de-centring citizenship away from universalising conceptions, towards a historically and culturally grounded horizontal perspective on citizenship. While cognisant of dominant, state-centric approaches in Estonia, we present citizenship as a process unfolding through individual, everyday practices of belonging. We demonstrate how Russian speakers, excluded from membership in the Estonian community, can still become members in many less-formal ways, through vibrant interaction with local space.

Harvard Citation style: Jasina-Schaefer, A. and Cheskin, A. (2020) Horizontal citizenship in Estonia: Russian speakers in the borderland city of Narva, Citizenship Studies, 24(1), pp. 93-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2019.1691150

APA Citation style: Jasina-Schaefer, A., & Cheskin, A. (2020). Horizontal citizenship in Estonia: Russian speakers in the borderland city of Narva. Citizenship Studies. 24(1), 93-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2019.1691150