Tag: Citizenship

Free Download Michael S. Greve, Michael Zoller, "Citizenship in America and Europe: Beyond the Nation-State?"
English | 2009 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 0844743100 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Traditional notions of citizenship are linked to the idea of the democratic nation-state, a sovereign entity capable of defending itself against foreign and domestic enemies. But these notions have become increasingly problematic as the very concept of the nation-state is challenged, not only by ethnic and religious conflicts, but also by increased global mobility and the political integration of nation-states into international organizations-most prominently, the European Union. Will the concept of citizenship as we know it survive the decline of the nation-state?

Free Download Marquis de Condorcet, Alice Drysdale Vickery, "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1528717988 | EPUB | pages: 26 | 0.2 mb
"On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship" is a 1789 essay by French philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743-1794), more commonly known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French mathematician and philosopher who espoused equal rights people of all genders and races, a liberal economy, free public instruction, and the importance of a constitutional government. Said to have been the very embodiment of the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, Condorcet died in prison as a result of his attempting to escape French Revolutionary authorities. Within this essay, he argues that, according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, rights are universal; and if that is indeed true, then they should apply to all adults-women included. A fascinating example of early feminist literature, "On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship" will greatly appeal to those with an interest in the history of feminism and its most notable proponents. Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly republishing this classic essay now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Free Download Catherine Neveu, "Disputing Citizenship"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1447312538, 144731252X | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.7 mb
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Citizenship is always in dispute – in practice as well as in theory – but conventional perspectives do not address why the concept of citizenship is so contentious. This unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute.The authors dispute the way citizenship is normally conceived and analysed within the social sciences, developing a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle. This view is advanced through an exploration of the entanglements of politics, culture and power that are both embodied and contested in forms and practices of citizenship. This compelling view of citizenship emerges from the international and interdisciplinary collaboration of the four authors, drawing on the diverse disputes over citizenship in their countries of origin (Brazil, France, the UK and the US). The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the field of citizenship, no matter what their geographical, political or academic location.

Free Download Judith Vega, Pieter Boele van Hensbroek, "Cultural Citizenship in Political Theory"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1138798096, 0415696488 | EPUB | pages: 112 | 0.5 mb
Cultural citizenship is a recently developed concept in discussions on multicultural society, the media society, consumerism, and political theory. It addresses the various ways in which citizenship is becoming mixed up with culture, either through globalisation processes (involving new cultural identities, immigrations, culture industries) or by increasingly life-style oriented types of action. In the face of these challenges, the good old notion of citizenship seems in need of some assistance.

Free Download Anne McNevin, "Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0231151284 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.3 mb
Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces that generate new subjectivities. Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization.

Free Download Partick Baert, Sokratis Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci, "Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415558735, 0415534135 | EPUB | pages: 278 | 0.6 mb
This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through thirteen pieces of most recent in-depth sociological research that delve on: challenges to citizenship, civil society and citizenship in early and late modernity, the reflexive imperative in transformations of civil society, social conflict challenges to social science approaches, methodology and explanatory power, gender, minorities-immigrants-refugees and the extension of citizenship, violence in modernity, the place of civil society for sociology, and postcolonialism, trauma, and civil society.

Free Download Richard Schell, Kurt Wagner, "U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Q&A"
English | 2006 | pages: 366 | ISBN: 1572485493 | PDF | 0,9 mb
How can I bring my family with me?

Free Download Socratic Citizenship by Dana Villa
English | October 1, 2001 | ISBN: 0691086931 | True EPUB | 380 pages | 0.5 MB
Many critics bemoan the lack of civic engagement in America. Tocqueville’s ”nation of joiners” seems to have become a nation of alienated individuals, disinclined to fulfill the obligations of citizenship or the responsibilities of self-government. In response, the critics urge community involvement and renewed education in the civic virtues. But what kind of civic engagement do we want, and what sort of citizenship should we encourage? In Socratic Citizenship, Dana Villa takes issue with those who would reduce citizenship to community involvement or to political participation for its own sake. He argues that we need to place more value on a form of conscientious, moderately alienated citizenship invented by Socrates, one that is critical in orientation and dissident in practice.

Free Download Dexter Petty, "Citizenship: Practices, Types and Challenges "
English | ISBN: 1619424401 | 2012 | 168 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book presents current research in the study of the practices, types and challenges of citizenship. Topics discussed include social exclusion, racism and citizenship in Australia; birthright citizenship of undocumented immigrants and the Dream Act; a path to citizenship for new immigrants; client-targeted citizenship behaviours among civil servants; citizenship and older people; and, the socialisation of geoinformation for teaching purposes and promotion of citizenship.

Free Download UNIV PLYMOUTH, "City as a Political Idea: Citizenship, Sovereignty and Politics"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B00QMFFEV2 | EPUB | pages: 169 | 0.5 mb
The question of citizenship is becoming one of the central social and political problems, where sovereignty is being challenged by globalisation and militarisation. The old model of citizenship is no longer valid in the contemporary reality of mass migrations and ethnic, religious and cultural integration. Krzysztof Nawratek revives the socio-political potential of the city as a tool for social change. He proposes to establish the city’s own sovereignty by introducing a new type of multiple and flexible city citizenship. City as a Political Idea combines reflection on urban planning, architecture, politics and society. It questions reasons for the existence of contemporary cities as well as their future.