Dislocations of Civic Cultural Borderlines [electronic resource] : Methodological Nationalism, Transnational Reality and Cosmopolitan Dreams /
Ahponen, Pirkkoliisa.editor.
Harinen, Päivi.editor.
Haverinen, Ville-Samuli.editor.
This book examines changes of citizenship in the light of dislocated habitations. It highlights the ways in which the membership in a local community is shifting away from national frameworks, and explores the dislocations brought about by transnational and cosmopolitan forms of belonging. Containing theoretical, methodological and political contributions, the volume takes part in the social political and cultural discussion around migration, transnationalism, multiculturalism, multiple citizenship and cosmopolitan civic activities. It presents dislocation as a covering concept and a metaphor for describing circumstances in which the conventional ways and frames of conducting social scientific analysis, social policies, or politics no longer suffice. The book shows how scientific and political projects, educational curricula and policy institutions still lean mainly on the logics of mono-cultural nation-states and citizenships, without recognizing the dislocated nature of contemporary citizenship and civil society. Offering solutions, the book proposes new ways of collecting data and conducting analyses, explains the new logics of citizenship and civic activities, and offers tools for developing civic and citizenship policies that consider the transnational reality of people's everyday lives and life histories.  .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Pirkkoliisa Ahponen -- PART I. Belonging to Membership: changing Frames of Citizenship -- Chapter 2. Living in an Age of Migration and Diasporas; Zygmunt Bauman -- Chapter 3. Contents of Citizenship? Multiple Citizens' Orientations towards Nationality and Different forms of Citizenship; Jussi Ronkainen -- PART II. Studying Dislocations: From Methodological Nationalism to Methodological Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 4. Which Side?: young Multicultural Generation Facing Nationalistic Research Frameworks; Päivi Harinen and Antti Kivijärvi -- Chapter 5. Embodied and Moral Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Opposition to the Rise of Neo-Nationalism: A Micro-Analytical Perspective; Sofia Laine -- Chapter 6. Political Transnationalism as a Matter of Belongings: Young Kurds in Finland; Mari Toivanen -- Chapter 7. Marginal Actors? Diaspora Somalis Negotiate their Citizenship; Mulki Al-Shamani and Cindy Horst -- PART III. Complex Preconditions of Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Toward Learning Society -- Chapter 8. Dilemmas of Cosmopolitan Education in the Context of Transnationalism; Devorah Kalekin-Fishman -- Chapter 9. The Internationalisation of higher Education: Multicultural, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Perspectives Approached; Anna Medvedeva and Pirkkoliisa Ahponen -- Chapter 10. Is Education Still Enough? Skilled Sub-Saharan Africans Face the Nordic Labour Market; Mathias Ebot -- Chapter 11. From Locals to Cosmopolitans: Transferring the Territorial Dimensions of Cultural Citizenship; Pirkkoliisa Ahponen -- Chapter 12. Afterwords: Päivi Harinen.
This book examines changes of citizenship in the light of dislocated habitations. It highlights the ways in which the membership in a local community is shifting away from national frameworks, and explores the dislocations brought about by transnational and cosmopolitan forms of belonging. Containing theoretical, methodological and political contributions, the volume takes part in the social political and cultural discussion around migration, transnationalism, multiculturalism, multiple citizenship and cosmopolitan civic activities. It presents dislocation as a covering concept and a metaphor for describing circumstances in which the conventional ways and frames of conducting social scientific analysis, social policies, or politics no longer suffice. The book shows how scientific and political projects, educational curricula and policy institutions still lean mainly on the logics of mono-cultural nation-states and citizenships, without recognizing the dislocated nature of contemporary citizenship and civil society. Offering solutions, the book proposes new ways of collecting data and conducting analyses, explains the new logics of citizenship and civic activities, and offers tools for developing civic and citizenship policies that consider the transnational reality of people's everyday lives and life histories.  .
Social sciences
Migration.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Sociology, general.
Migration.