Jorge E. Aceves Lozano Director regional de CIESAS – Occidente. Doctor en Ciencias Sociales. Líneas de investigación: antropología de la cultura e identidades urbanas, culturas del trabajo y populares; teoría y práctica de la historia oral y enfoque biográfico. Ha publicado libros individuales, colectivos y en revistas de investigación mexicanas, de Chile, Argentina, Brasil, España y Canadá. Libros recientes: G. de Garay y J. E. Aceves (coord.), Interview for what? Multiple listens from various quadrants. Mexico, Instituto Mora, 2017; JE Aceves, Use of oral and life history in educational research. Methodological aspects and oral sources. San Luis Potosí, El Colegio de San Luis, 2018 (Cuadernos del Centro).

Realidades socioculturales

Citizen cultures and cultural citizenship. An exploration of the terms

  • Jorge E. Aceves Lozano

Keywords: citizenship, culture, rights, globalization, politics.

This text reviews the relationship between citizenship and culture. Exploring social science literature on these terms to analyze particular social subjects, both in their action and their conceptualization, has led us to consider that citizenships are diverse, heterogenous and with unequal positions in regard to other citizens and in their relationship with the sphere of the State. Each group of citizens lives and models its social action based on its own identity configurations, codes and cultural dispositions, all of which are affected by power, gender, class and ethnicity relations. Citizenships express -through their actions, emotions, and thoughts - the social, political, economic and cultural diversity of our contemporary conflictive societies. Two considerations develop in this text: first, the discussion is addressed from citizen practices; a second look highlights the cultural dimension that these practices express about specific citizen rights.