The citizen in the 21st century / / edited by James Arvanitakis; Ingrid Mattherws.

• TeilnehmendeR: Arvanitakis, James,; Mattherws, Ingrid,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In the nineteen essays of this collection, the 21st century citizen is introduced, deconstructed, probed and admired among the messy realities of the contemporary world. As an inter-disciplinary project, the collection draws on expertise from across Europe, North America and Australasia to offer new insights into such diverse existences as the environmental citizen, the young citizen, the multiple citizen, the non-citizen, and the global citizen. It unflinchingly spotlights the failures of our contemporary societies to resolve the endless, universal problems of conflict, poverty and oppression. It also opens windows of hope onto a range of new understandings and innovative approaches to the challenges we face, from the mass movements of refugees to the digitalisation of social contact. This material can be read as a whole, as a conceptual collection, or it can be dipped in to and out of between work and leisure. Whether it is read as research or pastime, this volume will challenge and confront, comfort and renew, the many ways of thinking about citizenship in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / James Arvanitakis and Ingrid Matthews -- 21st Century Citizen Networks in Complex States: Shall We Dance or Play Tug-of-War? / Eugene G. Kowch -- Nomos Beyond the Earth / Josh Entsminger -- Israeli Narratives to the Diaspora and the Construction of an Unequal Diasporic Citizenship / Shahar Burla -- Arendtian Deliberation on the Decline of Political Public Space: The Case of Postwar Japanese Citizenship / Yaya Mori -- Multiple Nationality and the (Ab)Use of Citizenship: Identity Opportunity and Risk / Anna Tsalapatanis -- Migrating Rights / Laurie Berg -- Asian Democracy and the Problem of Membership: Rules of Exception and ‘Legitimate’ Discrimination against Migrants in South Korea / Sohoon Lee -- Expanding the Citizen in Multicultural Policymaking / Rimi Khan -- Universalising Citizenship as Identity? Identity Liberalism and the Paradox of Universalism / Francis Luong -- Expanding Citizenship: Expanding Our Understanding / Mitra Gusheh and Anna Powell -- Teaching and Learning Citizenship: From the Margins to the Centre / Ingrid Matthews -- ‘The Kids Are Alright, It’s Just Youth in Trouble’: Re-Thinking Civic Competence through a Presence Model of Youth Citizenship Identity / Jennifer Upchurch -- Environment and Citizenship: Rethinking What It Means to Be a Citizen in the 21st Century / Benito Cao -- Environmental Citizenship: A Case Study of the Global Young Greens / Alex Surace and Amy Tyler -- Practicing an Individual Ethics of Sustainability / Chris Riedy -- Engagement and Citizenship: Universities in the Contemporary World / James Arvanitakis and Bob Hodge -- An Open Source Project for Politics: Visions of Democracy and Citizenship in American Pirate Parties / Martin Fredriksson -- A 21st Century Citizen in a Brave New Republic / Spike Boydell -- The 21st Century Citizen and Beyond / Ingrid Matthews and James Arvanitakis.