Crafting citizenship
Subtitle: understanding tensions in a multi-ethnic society
By: by Menno Hurenkamp, Evelien Tonkens, Jan Willem Duyvendak
Contributors: Tonkens, Evelina Hendrika, 1961-; Duyvendak, Jan Willem
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780230241541
Subjects: Citizenship; Ethnic relations; Political participation
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Feeling good, quarreling bad; title: The construction of citizenship in public debate; title: The delegitimation of political authority; title: Individualization and the public interest; title: Globalization and the culturalization of citizenship; title: The three freedoms of the Dutch: the culturalization of citizenship in the Netherlands put in an international perspective; title: Crafting citizenship.