Handbook of Citizenship StudiesEngin F Isin, Bryan S Turner 'The contributions of Woodiwiss, Lister and Sassen are outstanding but not unrepresentative of the many merits of this excellent collection'- The British Journal of Sociology From women's rights, civil rights, and sexual rights for gays and lesbians to disability rights and language rights, we have experienced in the past few decades a major trend in Western nation-states towards new claims for inclusion. This trend has echoed around the world: from the Zapatistas to Chechen and Kurdish nationalists, social and political movements are framing their struggles in the languages of rights and recognition, and hence, of citizenship. Citizenship has thus become an increasingly important axis in the social sciences. Social scientists have been rethinking the role of political agent or subject. Not only are the rights and obligations of citizens being redefined, but also what it means to be a citizen has become an issue of central concern. As the process of globalization produces multiple diasporas, we can expect increasingly complex relationships between homeland and host societies that will make the traditional idea of national citizenship problematic. As societies are forced to manage cultural difference and associated tensions and conflict, there will be changes in the processes by which states allocate citizenship and a differentiation of the category of citizen. This book constitutes the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to the terrain. Drawing on a wealth of interdisciplinary knowledge, and including some of the leading commentators of the day, it is an essential guide to understanding modern citizenship. About the editors: Engin F Isin is Associate Professor of Social Science at York University. His recent works include Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship (Minnesota, 2002) and, with P K Wood, Citizenship and Identity (Sage, 1999). He is the Managing Editor of Citizenship Studies. Bryan S Turner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He has written widely on the sociology of citizenship in Citizenship and Capitalism (Unwin Hyman, 1986) and Citizenship and Social Theory (Sage, 1993). He is also the author of The Body and Society (Sage, 1996) and Classical Sociology (Sage, 1999), and has been editor of Citizenship Studies since 1997. |
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... claims for inclusion and belonging . More recently , this trend has echoed around the world from Zapatistas to Chechen and Kurdish nationalists , framing their struggles in the language of rights and recognition . While some , such as ...
... claims as claims to citizenship understood not simply as a legal status but as political and social recognition and economic redistribution . Hence the increase in the number of scholars who work in femi- nist studies , queer studies ...
... claimed that citizenship was a smoke screen that masked economic exploi- tation . Radical thinkers have often ... claim , it is partial . The liberal theory of citizenship that emphasizes individual rights is only one version of ...
... claims often derive from norms within subcultures and are enforced by social pressures or group rules , and they ... claim is advanced by a particular group , and they are confirmed when the state enacts and enforces the rights to some ...
... claims , powers and immunities , we can unravel much of this complexity . One exer- cises a liberty without obliging others to help . A claim imposes a corresponding duty on others to help respect and protect the right . Thus , a claim ...
Contents
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Variations and the Threat of Globalisation | 53 |
Grounds of Social Change | 69 |
Ancient Citizenship and its Inheritors | 89 |
Modern Citizenship | 105 |
Citizenship after Orientalism | 117 |
Liberal Citizenship | 131 |
Republican Citizenship | 145 |
The Ambiguous Legacy | 209 |
Cultural Citizenship | 231 |
Multicultural Citizenship | 245 |
The Elementary Forms of Citizenship | 259 |
Towards PostNational and Denationalized Citizenship | 277 |
Ecological Citizenship | 293 |
Historical Images | 305 |
Cosmopolitan Citizenship | 317 |