ABSTRACT
The Evolvement of Neighbourhood Activism and the Extension of Citizenship Rights
Shlomo Hasson
This article explores the construction of neighbourhood organizations over time and their role in extending citizenship rights. It explores the structural conditions under which neighbourhood organizations develop, the socio-historical process whereby they have been constructed by purposeful human agents, their meanings and the interrelations between social actors and state agents. There appears to be a gradual change in the nature of the neighbourhood organizations from independent ratepayers associations to paternalist models of social dependency then to protest organizations and finally to co-production.
