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Introduction / Giovanni Moro -- PART ONE Multiple Links between Single Currency and European Citizenship. 1 Building citizenship in the post-modern Era: Dimensions of the other side of the coin / Giovanni Moro ; 2 Imaginary Europe: The euro as a symbol and practice / Kathleen R. McNamara ; 3 The only wealth are human beings: Currency between economy and citizenship / Thierry Vissol ; 4 Trust in the euro: The single currency as social construction of an institutional fact / Matthias Kaelberer ; 5 Forgotten dimensions: The euro in scientific and policy literature / Lucia Mazzuca and Roberto Ranucci -- PART TWO The Single Currency and the Construction of European Identity. 6 The unintended " Litmus Test " : The euro as a factor of center-formation, trust enhancement, and identity building / Daniela Piana ; 7 Two sides of the same coin? The euro and Europeanization of collective identities / Thomas Risse ; 8 Why money can't buy democracy: On the detachment of the euro from EU citizenship / Eva G. Heidbreder ; 9 Representation of identity: Euro and dollar as identity builders / Arianna Montanari -- PART THREE European Citizenship in the Euro Turmoil. 10 In the light and shadow of the Single Currency: European identity and citizenship / Vivien A. Schmidt ; 11 Divided by a common currency: The euro crisis and European citizenship / Cris Shore ; 12 Between the natural and moral order of things: The euro and the problem of agency / Victor Pérez-Diàz ; 13 Between illusion and disillusion: Public opinion facing the euro crisis / Nando Pagnoncelli ; 14 Back to the future? The euro and the EU silent constitution building / Dario Castiglione -- Conclusions: The way forward / Giovanni Moro.

In the Community-building process, citizens are the most invoked and feared, but at the same time the least known subject. This lack of knowledge nourishes the citizens' detachment from the European Union and itself emerged in well known cases such as the French and Dutch referenda on the Constitutional Treaty or the public concern towards the EU policy on immigration. This gap is true especially for active citizenship organizations operating in the European policy making, not only in Brussels, but also and above all at national and local levels, and this book is aimed at filling this knowledge gap. The book is divided into two parts. The first part of the book focuses on the way in which the literature on EU governance and citizenship and on participatory democracy deals with citizen activism in public policy making. The second part discusses a number of empirical research projects on civic activism in Europe. This book aims, on the one hand, to bridge the academic debate to more policy oriented debates in which active citizenship organizations and policy makers are involved; and, on the other hand, to bridge theoretical discussion of the nature of the EU with the empirical literature based on the study of civic activism in Europe and at the national level. The distinctiveness of the book is that it tries to overcome both the "methodological nationalism" that affects the research and public debate on the EU, the normative attitude of most part of European studies in favor of an approach aimed at describing phenomena, and the habit of dealing with civic associations in Europe by referring only to the "Brussels Civil Society," making it of interest to both policy makers as well as students and scholars in European Studies, Political Science, Sociology and International Relations

In the Community-building process, citizens are the most invoked and feared, but at the same time the least known subject. This lack of knowledge nourishes the citizens' detachment from the European Union and itself emerged in well known cases such as the French and Dutch referenda on the Constitutional Treaty or the public concern towards the EU policy on immigration. This gap is true especially for active citizenship organizations operating in the European policy making, not only in Brussels, but also and above all at national and local levels, and this book is aimed at filling this knowledg

This paper is not devoted to European citizenship, but rather to the ways we study it. The paper is based on a sample of recent literature on EU citizenship and is developed as follows. Firstly, seven divergent thematizations (the ways EU citizenship is identified and framed) are introduced and analyzed with regard to the problems they show. Then five conceptualizations are presented that come from the same sources, and that should be considered to overcome criticalities. There follows the introduction of a conceptual framework regarding democratic citizenship as an empirical phenomenon. This framework allows the identification of a paradigm that has shaped national citizenship and that is experiencing deep crisis and transformation. European citizenship, from this perspective, can be viewed as anomaly of the paradigm and then appropriately studied.