Silent Citizenship

Author : Justin Gest,Sean Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315458670

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Silent Citizenship by Justin Gest,Sean Gray Pdf

What does silent citizenship mean in a democracy? With levels of economic and political inequality on the rise across the developed democracies, citizens are becoming more disengaged from their neighbourhoods and communities, more distrustful of politicians and political parties, more sceptical of government goods and services, and less interested in voicing their frustrations in public or at the ballot box. The result is a growing number of silent citizens who seem disconnected from democratic politics – who are unaware of political issues, lack knowledge about public affairs, do not debate, deliberate, or take action, and most fundamentally, do not vote. Yet, although silent citizenship can and does indicate deficits of democracy, research suggests that these deficits are not the only reason citizens may have for remaining silent in democratic life. Silence may also reflect an active and engaged response to politics under highly unequal conditions. What is missing is a full accounting of the problems and possibilities for democracy that silent citizenship represents. Bringing together leading scholars in political science and democratic theory, this book provides a valuable exploration of the changing nature and form of silent citizenship in developed democracies today. This title was previously published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

Author : Jean Beaman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520967441

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Citizen Outsider by Jean Beaman Pdf

A free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of Maghrébin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society.

Author : Bernard P. Dauenhauer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0847682234

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Citizenship in a Fragile World by Bernard P. Dauenhauer Pdf

Traditional conceptions of citizenship have dealt almost exclusively with political life within one state. But the internationalization of so much economic, cultural, and political life today presents new opportunities and problems_including the potential to extinguish human life. Taking these new features as a point of departure, Dauenhauer exposes the flaws in standard communitarian and liberal democratic theory, focusing on the work of Charles Taylor, John Rawls, and JYrgen Habermas. He articulates a concept of 'complex citizenship' that recognizes citizens' responsibilities beyond borders, and shows its fruitfulness for educating children and dealing with foreign states and their peoples.

Author : Alix Ohlin
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487004873

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Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin Pdf

From Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Alix Ohlin comes an intimate and compelling novel of motherhood, love, a search for belonging, and what it means to be a sister. All her life, Lark Brossard felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliant pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally by Lawrence Wheelock, a filmmaker who is both Lark’s employer and her occasional lover. When Wheelock denies her what she longs for most — a child — Lark is forced to re-examine a life marked by unrealized ambitions and thwarted desires. As she takes charge of her destiny, Lark comes to rely on Robin in ways she never could have imagined. In this meditation on motherhood, sisterhood, desire, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complex path towards fulfillment as an artist and as a human being.

Author : Ayelet Shachar,Rainer Bauboeck,Irene Bloemraad,Maarten Vink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192528421

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The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship by Ayelet Shachar,Rainer Bauboeck,Irene Bloemraad,Maarten Vink Pdf

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance. The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship brings together leading experts in law, philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, and geography to provide a multidisciplinary, comparative discussion of different dimensions of citizenship: as legal status and political membership; as rights and obligations; as identity and belonging; as civic virtues and practices of engagement; and as a discourse of political and social equality or responsibility for a common good. The contributors engage with some of the oldest normative and substantive quandaries in the literature, dilemmas that have renewed salience in today's political climate. As well as setting an agenda for future theoretical and empirical explorations, this Handbook explores the state of citizenship today in an accessible and engaging manner that will appeal to a wide academic and non-academic audience. Chapters highlight variations in citizenship regimes practiced in different countries, from immigrant states to 'non-western' contexts, from settler societies to newly independent states, attentive to both migrants and those who never cross an international border. Topics include the 'selling' of citizenship, multilevel citizenship, in-between statuses, citizenship laws, post-colonial citizenship, the impact of technological change on citizenship, and other cutting-edge issues. This Handbook is the major reference work for those engaged with citizenship from a legal, political, and cultural perspective. Written by the most knowledgeable senior and emerging scholars in their fields, this comprehensive volume offers state-of-the-art analyses of the main challenges and prospects of citizenship in today's world of increased migration and globalization. Special emphasis is put on the question of whether inclusive and egalitarian citizenship can provide political legitimacy in a turbulent world of exploding social inequality and resurgent populism.

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691173320

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Not for Profit by Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable, productive, and empathetic individuals. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world. In response to this dire situation, Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world. In a new preface, Nussbaum explores the current state of humanistic education globally and shows why the crisis of the humanities has far from abated. Translated into over twenty languages, Not for Profit draws on the stories of troubling—and hopeful—global educational developments. Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education.

Author : Lesa Melnyczuk
Publisher : Western Australian Museum
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925040029

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Silent Memories, Traumatic Lives by Lesa Melnyczuk Pdf

Silent Memories — Traumatic Lives is a quest for understanding, an attempt to make sense of the very emotional history of the Ukrainian post-war migrants to Western Australia. Ukrainian migrants arrived in Australia by ship between 1947 and 1951, from the Displaced Persons camps of Europe, survivors of the worst of the Soviet regime’s atrocities, including genocidal famine, and only recently released from forced unpaid labour under the German Nazi regime. The testimonies of Ukrainian famine survivors included in this book reflect the findings of similar studies carried out in Ukrainian communities throughout the world. This work adds to mounting evidence of the genocidal nature of the Ukrainian famine of 1932–1933 and the lasting effects it has had on survivors.

Author : Espen D. H. Olsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441169679

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Transnational Citizenship in the European Union by Espen D. H. Olsen Pdf

This book argues that European citizenship is transnational, a status that has emerged incrementally during the European integration process. Transnational Citizenship in the European Union follows an institutionalist approach and traces the development of citizenship discourse from the founding treaties of the EU to the most recent effort of constitution-making and the Lisbon Treaty. This helps demonstrate that such discourse has followed a path based on the foundational principles of free movement and non-discrimination rather than revolutionary ideas of a postnational citizenship beyond the nation-state. This in-depth analysis of citizenship in the EU takes into account the institutional configuration of membership, rights, identity, and participation. It also brings in the domestic level of the debate through the examination of national positions on reform proposals and the interplay between EU and member states conceptions of citizenship. Lastly, by investigating citizenship practices, the book helps foster understanding of how the EU works as a political system, and the relationship between European institutions and the recipients of their integrative politics , i.e., the citizens.

Author : Surya Ramkumar
Publisher : Spotted Okapi
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789083051314

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Silent Eloquence by Surya Ramkumar Pdf

Silent Eloquence is a book that celebrates the beauty and power of words. It is a collection of reflective essays written over 15 years, as the author moved across multiple countries (from Asia to Africa to Europe) and encountered different cultures and colorful personalities along the way. The stories are personal, but the themes are universal. They question our need to belong and to be different at the same time, the balance between being a global citizen and being loyal to nationalistic identities, the clash of the new and the old and many more. The topics covered are eclectic - from our appreciation of art, the effect of technology on creativity, the need for credibility in negotiations, the increasing impatience of the modern audience, the move away from breadth towards depth and apathy in social life - to name a few. It is written by an adventurer for those who relish adventure - not just in life, but also in the world of books. For after all, you never know what you might read in the next page, and that is just part of the joy of reading such a varied, engaging and honest collection.

Author : Brian Roberts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387267279

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Silent Justice by Brian Roberts Pdf

The crime and chaos in South Central Los Angeles is out of control: corruption, crime, guns, drugs. The City of Angels needs a miracle and the U.S. President, looking to secure a second term, has a plan. He has issued that the gangs in America are a threat to national security. However, the perfect plan gets complicated by unforeseen casualties: collateral damage, witnesses, hasty decisions, and ultimately _ The Citizen. Lead Detective Robert Jenkins is now chasing the traitors within the government, the very agency sworn to protect American citizens. But in a twist of events, when honor is disrespected and allegiance is challenged, the hunter becomes the hunted.

Author : Zehavit Gross,E. Doyle Stevick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319154190

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As the Witnesses Fall Silent: 21st Century Holocaust Education in Curriculum, Policy and Practice by Zehavit Gross,E. Doyle Stevick Pdf

This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world. It comes at a critical time, as the world observes the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We are now at a turning point, as the generations that witnessed and survived the Shoah are slowly passing on. Governments are charged with ensuring that this defining event of the 20th century takes its rightful place in the schooling and the historical consciousness of their peoples. The policies and practices of Holocaust education around the world are as diverse as the countries that grapple with its history and its meaning. Educators around the globe struggle to reconcile national histories and memories with the international realities of the Holocaust and its implications for the present. These efforts take place at a time when scholarship about the Holocaust itself has made great strides. In this book, these issues are framed by some of the leading voices in the field, including Elie Wiesel and Yehuda Bauer, and then explored by many distinguished scholars who represent a wide range of expertise. Holocaust education is of such significance, so rich in meaning, so powerful in content, and so diverse in practice that the need for extensive, high-quality empirical research is critical. Th is book provides exactly that.

Author : Duncan Green
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583675045

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Silent Revolution by Duncan Green Pdf

"Superb. Combining unassailable analysis with a thorough grasp of economic and political trends, Duncan Green convincingly argues that the region is headed for even greater tragedy unless people move toward more equitable and ecologically sustainable models of economic development." —Walden Bello, founder of Focus on the Global South The first edition of Green's Silent Revolution, published in 1995, described the imposition of neoliberal economic models in Latin America, the role of the IMF and World Bank in enforcing them, and their consequences. In this second, revised edition, Green extends his analysis into the present, showing how the current economic meltdown in Latin America was prepared by an economic strategy that could never live up to its own claims. The new edition was completed in a moment when the Argentinean economy is in ruins, Brazil is on the brink of collapse, riots are taking place in Uruguay, Peru, and in Paraguay, and a U.S. supported coup has just been averted in Venezuela. It will be an essential work for understanding ongoing developments in the region.

Author : Alex Zakaras
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195384680

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Individuality and Mass Democracy by Alex Zakaras Pdf

Alex Zakaras argues that we must develop an ideal of citizenship suitable for mass society. To do so, he turns to a pair of 19th-century philosophers - John Stuart Mill and Ralph Waldo Emerson - who were among the first to confront the specific challenge of making mass democracy work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B3995801

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West Coast Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rainer Bauböck
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015033077853

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Transnational Citizenship by Rainer Bauböck Pdf

In this book, the author argues that citizenship rights will have to extend beyond nationality and state territory if liberal democracies are to remain true to their own principles of inclusive membership and equal basic rights. Definition and extension of citizenship rights are discussed.