Citizens of the world : pluralism, migration and practices of citizenship / / edited by Robert Danisch.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dansch, Robert, 1976-
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 74.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Taken as a whole, this book argues that the very idea of what it means to be a “citizen” in our global, cosmopolitan world is no longer as clear as it may have been for an Athenian democrat of the fifth century BC, a Roman Republican of the first century BC, a British coloniser of the eighteenth century, or an American patriot of the nineteenth century. Given the now undeniable fact of pluralism highlighted by globalisation and the massive movement of peoples across borders (alongside the legal expansion of rights to minority groups in Western democracies throughout the twentieth century), the idea of citizenship now immediately implicates the problem of inclusion. Pluralism and migration also make identity an increasingly fragile and important concept that is only loosely tethered to the meaning of citizenship. This book shows that the very idea of what it means to be a citizen of a state was complex and uncertain. And that the concept of citizenship was being actively rethought from the different disciplines represented at the conference: sociology, anthropology, literary studies, communication studies, and political science to name a few.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Postmodern Liberal Concept of Citizenship / Sanja Ivic -- Citizenship and Agonism / Paulina Tambakaki -- Jane Addams, Pragmatism and Rhetorical Citizenship in Multicultural Democracies / Robert Danisch -- Multiculturalism in the Service of Capital: The Case of New Zealand Public Broadcasting / Donald Reid -- Exclusive Inclusion: Japan’s Desire for, and Difficulty with, Diversity / Julian Chapple -- German Politicians with Turkey Origin: Diversity in the Parliaments of Germany / Devrimsel Deniz Nergiz -- Economic Migration, Disaggregated Citizenship and the Right to Vote in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Wessel le Roux -- Portuguese Civil Society and the Relation with the State / Sonia Pires -- Living between Nation-States and Nature: Anthropological Notes on National Identities / Humberto Dos Santos Martins -- Empowering Gypsies and Applied Anthropology / Elisabetta Di Giovanni -- Transnational Practices of Care: The Portuguese Migration from the Azores to Quebec (Canada) / Ana Gherghel and Josiane Le Gall.