The dialectics of citizenship : exploring privilege, exclusion and racialization

The dialectics of citizenship : exploring privilege, exclusion and racialization /

What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants an...

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Main Author: Reiter, Bernd, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Citizenship.
Autonomy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Autonomy
Citizenship
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Table of Contents:
  • The epistemology and methodology of exploratory social science research: crossing Popper with Marcuse
  • Conceptualizing citizenship: disjunctive, dual, divided, entangled, or what?
  • Classical citizenship: the political and the social
  • Medieval European citizenship: Christian rights and Jewish duties
  • France: liberalism unveiled
  • The postcolonial within: Portugal, white, and European
  • Brazil: experts in exclusion
  • Colombia: when law and reality clash
  • Conclusion: learning from exploratory research.

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