The various papers and commentaries in this issue are framed by a brie
f discussion of (1) the growing significance for human geographers of
'citizenship' as both a source of concepts and a focus for substantive
research; (2) the way in which citizenship serves as a meeting-point
for the contemporary concerns of both political geographers and social
-cultural geographers; and (3) the various different kinds of 'spaces'
in and through which citizenship is fostered, practised and contested
, all of which are tackled in the contributions to the issue.