Suchergebnisse

Citizens, resident aliens, and the good of equal membership / Andrew Mason -- Is residence special? : democracy in the age of migration and human mobility / Ludvig Beckman -- Naturalisation, desert, and the symbolic meaning of citizenship / Sune Laegaard -- "Democratic agents" and "agents of democracy" in multilayered governance / Eva Erman -- The practical conditions of sovereignty of the people : the status of citizens in multilevel political organizations / Christine Chwaszcza -- The limits of post-territorial political community / David Chandler -- Making global governance public? : Habermas's model for a two-track cosmopolitan order / Kenneth Baynes -- Initial citizenship and rectificatory secessions / Jouni Reinikainen

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility and answerability, but is ultimately irreducible to either. This study of citizenship is truly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on new developments in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology, but also on psychoanalysis, philosophy and history. Ranging from Antigone and Socrates in the ancient world to checkpoints, euthanasia and flash mobs in the modern one, the 'acts' and chapters here build up a dynamic and wide-ranging picture. Acts of Citizenship provides important new insights for all those concerned with the relationship between individuals, groups and polities. Examines theories of how citizenship is mediated between lived experiences and formal entitlements in order to map out, confine, extend, name, and enact the boundaries of belonging to a polity. This book assembles deep traditions in social and political thought to provide a examination of acts of citizenship in this useful way.