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This volume explores some of the tensions and pressures of citizenship in Western liberal democracies. Citizenship has adopted many guises in the Western context, although historically citizenship is attached only to some variant of democracy. How democracy is configured is thus at the core of citizenship. Beginning in ancient Greece, citizenship is attached to the notion of a public sphere of deliberation, open only to a small number of males. Nonetheless, we take from these origins an understanding of citizenship that is attached to friendship, preservation of a distinct community, and adherence to law. These early conceptions of citizenship in the west have been dramatically altered in the modern context by the ascendancy of individual rights and equality, expanding the inclusiveness of definition of citizenship. The universality of rights claims has led to debate about the legitimacy of the nation state and questioning of borders. A further development in our understanding of citizenship, and one that has shifted citizenship studies considerably in the last few decades, is the backlash against the universalism of rights in the defense of cultural recognition within democratic polities. Multiculturalism as a broad spectrum of citizenship studies defends the autonomy and recognition of cultural, and sometimes religious, identity within an overarching scheme of rights and equality. This collection draws upon the many threads of citizenship in the Western tradition to consider how all of them are still extant, and contentious, in contemporary liberal democracy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Aristotelian Citizenship for a Multicultural World
Chapter 2 Challenges to a Deliberative Model of Citizenship
Chapter 3 Secularism as a Common Good
Chapter 4 Citizenship against the Nation
Chapter 5 Multicultural Taxpayers and Canadian Citizenship: Between the End of History and the Class of Civilizations
Chapter 6 Majoritarian Interculturalism and Multicultural Nationalism
Chapter 7 Multiculturalism and National Identity in Canada and the United States after September 11th, 2001
Chapter 8 Civic Virtue and Cultural Pluralism from the Standpoint of The Other: Debating Multiculturalism in the Age of Security and Surveillance
Chapter 9 The European Union as a Transnational Republic? Consociational, Multicultural, and Post-Territorial Dimensions
Chapter 10 Striking a Balance? The Battle for Euskara in a Diversifying Basque Country

Product details

Published 16 Mar 2017
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 206
ISBN 9781498511735
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 b/w illustration
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

David Edward Tabachnick

Anthology Editor

Leah Bradshaw

Contributor

Ed Andrew

Contributor

Ronald Beiner

Contributor

Leah Bradshaw

Contributor

Sanjay Jeram

Contributor

Tariq Modood

Contributor

Lee Trepanier

Lee Trepanier, Assumption University, USA

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