Tag: Citizens

Free Download De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies
by Min Reuchamps, Julien Vrydagh
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3110758156 | 431 Pages | PDF | 3.32 MB

Free Download Iseult Honohan, Marit Hovdal-Moan, "Domination, migration and non-citizens"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0367739895 | EPUB | pages: 156 | 0.2 mb
Does the concept of domination cast new light on issues that arise in the context of migration and citizenship? If citizenship is a status that provides protection from domination, understood as subjection to arbitrary interference, are non-citizens – whether outside or inside the state – necessarily subject to domination by virtue of being non-citizens? Does domination provide a useful basis for considering the harms that migrants suffer? If non-domination is a value to be promoted in politics, what are the implications for the treatment of migrants and resident non-citizens?

Free Download The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office by Ilana Gershon
English | May 15, 2024 | ISBN: 0226832635 | 183 pages | MOBI | 0.84 Mb
A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically.

Free Download Timon de Groot, "Citizens into Dishonored Felons: Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933 "
English | ISBN: 1800739583 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 47 MB
Over the course of its history, the German Empire increasingly withheld basic rights―such as joining the army, holding public office, and even voting―as a form of legal punishment. Dishonored offenders were often stigmatized in both formal and informal ways, as their convictions shaped how they were treated in prisons, their position in the labour market, and their access to rehabilitative resources. With a focus on Imperial Germany’s criminal policies and their afterlives in the Weimar era, Citizens into Dishonored Felons demonstrates how criminal punishment was never solely a disciplinary measure, but that it reflected a national moral compass that authorities used to dictate the rights to citizenship, honour and trust.

Free Download Luigi Bradizza, "Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens without States"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0813134706, 0813134188 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 0.6 mb
Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world. As philosophers debate the consequences of globalization, cosmopolitanism promises to create a stronger global community. Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization examines this philosophy from numerous perspectives to offer a comprehensive evaluation of its theory and practice. Bringing together the works of political scientists, philosophers, historians, and economists, the work applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cosmopolitanism that illuminates its long and varied history. This diverse framework provides a thoughtful analysis of the claims of cosmopolitanism and introduces many overlooked theorists and ideas. This volume is a timely addition to sociopolitical theory, exploring the philosophical consequences of cosmopolitanism in today’s global interactions.

Free Download Andre Carrel, "Citizens’ Hall: Making Local Democracy Work"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 1896357423 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.7 mb
Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy-for turning what are now "colonies" of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic entities. For Carrel, the citizen is the sole legitimate source of political power, and the best tool for citizen empowerment is the controversial tool of the referendum. This is the story of how a small municipality broke the rules of local government. It also recounts the author’s irreverence for the status quo and his ideas on the rebuilding of citizenship at the community level.

Free Download Lorenzo Fioramonti, "Citizens vs. Markets: How Civil Society is Rethinking the Economy in a Time of Crises"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415721652, 0415830168 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 0.7 mb
After an apparent temporary relief, the financial crisis is back full steam. The ‘double dip’ has turned into a full-blown meltdown of financial markets, public budgets and, by and large, democratic accountability. This global crisis is a fundamental wake-up call: a signal that our conventional political economy and, perhaps, the very foundations of our societies need a serious rethink. Currently, the spotlight is on the role of political elites and economic agents (especially the investors included in the vague notion of ‘markets’) and their strategies to stabilize or destabilize countries, from North America to the Eurozone. Regrettably, the actual and potential role of civil society is hardly mentioned in public debate. Yet, it is exactly within civil society that important responses to the crisis may emerge. It is within civil society that an alternative paradigm and a fundamental rethinking of conventional wisdom may be fostered. Citizens vs. Markets is the first book to unpack the transformative role of civil society in a sector in which it has traditionally been less proactive, in order to reflect on possible forms of social transformation that are not merely remedial but also constructive in nature. This is the most important struggle of our times.

Free Download Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos, "Reproducing Citizens: family, state and civil society"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138942294, 113809899X | EPUB | pages: 106 | 0.3 mb
Whilst the politics of reproduction have been at the heart of feminist struggles for over a century and a half, their analysis has not yet come to occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary study of citizenship. This volume takes up the challenge posed by Bryan Turner, when he noted "the absence of any systematic thinking about familial relations, reproduction and citizenship" (2008), and offers the first major global collection of work exploring this nexus of practices and political contestations.

Free Download Ana Dragojlovic, "Beyond Bali: Subaltern Citizens and Post-Colonial Intimacy "
English | ISBN: 9462980640 | 2016 | 204 pages | PDF | 1245 KB
This ethnography explores how Balinese citizens produce postcolonial intimacy-a complex interaction of claims to proximity and mutuality between themselves and the Dutch under colonialism that continues today. Such claims, Ana Dragojlovic explains, are crucial for the diasporic reconfiguration of kebalian, or Balinese-ness, a concept that encompasses the personal, social, and cultural complexities involved in Balinese identity in Dutch postcolonial society. This identity enables Balinese migrants to see themselves as carriers of unique cultural traditions both promoted by and in disagreement with Dutch cultural values.

Free Download Ebru Kayaalp, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, "Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey: Governing Through Smoke"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1474296009 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.3 mb
Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey critically analyses the travel of neoliberal ideas, policies, experts and institutions from the West to Turkey. Through an ethnographic investigation of the newly established tobacco market, Ebru Kayaalp considers how they are being adopted and transformed in their new settings.