"A criticism often leveled at liberal democratic culture is its emphasis on the individual over community and private life over civic participation. However, liberal democratic culture has a more complicated relationship to notions of citizenship. As Michael Kaplan shows, citize…
Monica Heller shows how hegemonic discourses of language, identity and the nation-State are destabilized under new political and economic conditions.
From the publisher. In Paths to Post-Nationalism, Monica Heller shows how hegemonic discourses of language, identity, and the nation-state are destabilized under new political and economic conditions. These processes, she argues, put us on the path to post-nationalism. Applying …
As the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage a…
Nationalitätenprobleme in Südosteuropa
by Schönfeld, Roland, Braun, Aurel, Südost-Institut München, Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft (Germany), Arbeitskreis für Regional- und Nationalitätenprobleme in der Sowjetunion, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa
fromUntersuchungen zur Gegenwartskunde Südosteuropas
Creating citizenship in the nineteenth-century South
An edited collection resulting from four international conferences held between 2008 and 2010 on the theme of citizenship in the nineteenth-century American South
An edited collection resulting from four international conferences held between 2008 and 2010 on the theme of citizenship in the nineteenth-century American South.
Examines basic concepts of citizenship, nationality and the state in the context of Singapore's independence. The theme of nation-building is explored and how the creation of a national identity, through building new institutions, has been a central feature of life in Singapore.
"Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fra…
"Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law's construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fra…
Volume 4 is the last in the 'Entangled Balkans' series and marks the end of several years of research guided by the transnational, "entangled history" and histoire croisée approaches. The essays in this volume address theoretical and methodological issues of Balkan or Southeast …
"Explores the current role of nationality from the point of view of international law, reassessing the validity of the 'classical', state-centered, approach to nationality in light of the 'new' role the human being is gradually acquiring within the international legal order. In …
