Citizenship

by Balibar, Etienne

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Citizenship / Etienne Balibar ; translated by Thomas Scott-Railton.

Summary

The question of what it means to be a citizen has, from the dawn of Western politics, been anything but clear and straightforword, and in modern societies it has become even more enigmatic and contested. Inseparable from democracy, and the demoands for equality and liberty from which democracy draws its origins, citizenship is constantly being redefined within the unresolved contradiction between universal principles and the discriminatory mechanisms that regulate membership of a political community. Not everyone is a citizen, even within one nation-state. The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion continue to generate dramatic asymmetries and create openings and closures, especially today in a time of particular fragility and when national sovereignty is in flux. Balibar does not shy away from the antimonies of citizenship, but he knows that to renounce citizenship would be to abandon the chance to create new modes of collective autonomy, in short, to democratize democracy. -- Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity Press
Place of Publication:Malden, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 145 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745682402, 0745682405, 9780745682419, 0745682413
oclc:ocn897775904
LC Classification:JF801
Dewey Decimal:323.6

Machine generated contents note: 1.Democracy and Citizenship: An Antinomic Relationship -- 2.Politeia -- 3.Aequa Libertas -- 4.From Social Citizenship to the Social-National State -- 5.Citizenship and Exclusion -- 6.The Aporia of Conflictual Democracy -- 7.Neo-Liberalism and De-Democratization -- 8.Democratizing Democracy.