Title: Crafting citizenship : negotiating tensions in a modern society /
Authors: Hurenkamp, Menno, 1971-; Tonkens, Evelina Hendrika, 1961-; Duyvendak, Jan Willem.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Citizenship; Political participation; Ethnic relations; Citizenship; Ethnic relations; Political participation; POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Freedom & Security Civil Rights.; POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Freedom & Security Human Rights.
Abstract: "According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighborhoods 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."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Feeling good, quarreling bad -- The construction of citizenship in public debate -- The delegitimation of political authority -- Individualization and the public interest -- Globalization and the culturalization of citizenship -- The three freedoms of the Dutch: the culturalization of citizenship in the Netherlands put in an international perspective -- Crafting citizenship.