Territories of citizenship
By: edited by Ludvig Beckman and Eva Erman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780230347755
Subjects: Political geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; Citizenship; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
Description: This volume bridges two separate academic debates on the problems of democracy and the political community in a transnational context. The authors discuss the theoretical concerns of citizenship in an age of globalization and the inclusive and exclusive character of citizenship in contemporary society, taking as a starting point the status, role and function of citizenship within democratic systems and multilayered government structures. This novel approach adds a broad array of critical, conceptual and normative perspectives on the borders, territories and political agents of the state, employing a variety of disciplines to explore the possibilities and challenges for citizens as political agents in light of present processes of fragmentation and pluralization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Citizens, resident aliens, and the good of equal membership / Andrew Mason; title: Is residence special? : democracy in the age of migration and human mobility / Ludvig Beckman; title: Naturalisation, desert, and the symbolic meaning of citizenship / Sune Laegaard; title: "Democratic agents" and "agents of democracy" in multilayered governance / Eva Erman; title: The practical conditions of sovereignty of the people : the status of citizens in multilevel political organizations / Christine Chwaszcza; title: The limits of post-territorial political community / David Chandler; title: Making global governance public? : Habermas's model for a two-track cosmopolitan order / Kenneth Baynes; title: Initial citizenship and rectificatory secessions / Jouni Reinikainen