Crafting Citizenship [electronic resource] : Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society /
Hurenkamp, M.author.
Tonkens, E.author.
Duyvendak, J.author.
According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Society as a Productive Space; 2 The Construction of Citizenship in Public Debate; 3 The Delegitimation of Political Authority; 4 Individualization and the Public Interest; 5 Globalization and the Culturalization of Citizenship; 6 The Three Freedoms of the Dutch: The Culturalization of Citizenship in the Netherlands Put into an International Perspective; 7 Crafting Citizenship; Appendix; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion.
Political sociology.
Ethnology—Europe.
Social policy.
Sociology.
European Union.
Human rights.
Political Sociology.
European Culture.
Social Policy.
Sociology, general.
European Union Politics.
Human Rights.