The Culturalization of Citizenship

Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-53409-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4199 g

The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling at home, has become a requirement. This groundbreaking book analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants, who are increasingly expected to express feelings of attachment, belonging, connectedness and loyalty to their new country. More than this, however, it demonstrates how this culturalization of citizenship is a global trend with local variations, which develop in relation to each other. The authors pay particular attention to the intersection between sexuality, race and ethnicity, spurred on by their awareness of the dialectical construction of homosexuality, held up as representative of liberal Western values by both those in the West and by African leaders, who use such claims as proof that homosexuality is un-African. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duyvendak, Jan Willem

Tonkens, Evelien

Geschiere, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction:

the culturalization of citizenship; Evelien Tonkens and Jan Willem Duyvendak

I. Embattled Autochthony: The Radical
Dutch Case

2. Out of character: Dutchness as a public problem; Rogier van
Reekum

3. Nationalism without nationalism?
Dutch self-images among the progressive left; Josip Kešic and Jan Willem Duyvendak

4. The culturalization of
everyday life: autochthony in Amsterdam New West; Paul Mepschen
5. The nativist triangle: sexuality, race and religion in the Netherlands; Markus Balkenhol, Paul Mepschen and Jan Willem Duyvendak

II. Who Belongs? Inclusion and
Exclusion in the Global South

6. The
nation and its undesirable subjects: homosexuality, citizenship and the gay
‘other’ in Cameroon; Basile Ndjio
7. Yu di Kòrsou, a matter
of negotiation: an anthropological exploration of the identity work of
Afro-Curaçaons; Rose May Allen & Francio Guadeloupe
8. Ghanaian migrants and the culturalization of citizenship in
Europe: what does autochthony and belonging have to do with it?; Maame Adwoa
Gyekyeh-Jandoh

9. Expelled from fortress Europe:

returned migrant associations in Bamako and the quest for cosmopolitan
citizenship; Isaie Dougnon
10. Conclusion: postscript on sex, race and
culture; Peter Geschiere and Francio Guadeloupe

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His current research interests span the welfare state, social movements, nativism, belonging and ‘feeling at home’. His most recent books include The Politics of Home: Nostalgia and Belonging in Western Europe and the United States (Palgrave, 2011); European States and their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries (2014, co-edited with John Bowen, Christophe Bertossi and Mona Lena Krook); and Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest (2015, co-edited with James M. Jasper). He is co-editor of Ethnography.

Peter Geschiere is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and co-editor of Ethnography. He has been pursuing historical-anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon and elsewhere in West Africa since 1971. His publications include The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Post-Colonial Africa (1997), Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe (2009), and Witchcraft, Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison (2013).

Evelien Tonkens is a sociologist and Professor of Citizenship and Humanisation of the Public Sector at the University for Humanistic Studies, the Netherlands.  She was previously Professor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam, a member of the Dutch parliament for the Green Left, and weekly columnist for the Dutch daily newspaper Volkskrant. Her research centres on ideals of citizenship and social change. Her recent books include Summoning the Active Citizen: Responsibility, Participation and Choice (2011, with Janet Newman) and Crafting Citizenship:Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society (Palgrave, 2012, with Menno Hurenkamp and Jan Willem Duyvendak).