Civics and citizenship Books

Book SynopsisIndia will soon be the world’s most populated country and its political development will shape the world of the 21st century. Yet Hindu nationalism – at the helm of contemporary Indian politics – is not well understood outside of India, and its links to the global neoliberal trajectory have not been explored. Covering 30 years of Indian politics, this book shows for the first time the importance of education in propagating the acceptance of Hindu nationalism within a neolberal system, including the reframing of the concept of Indian citizenship. The first five years of Modi rule failed to bring about the development that had been promised and have seen India’s rapid change from a largely inclusive society to one where religious minorities are denied their basic rights.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Role of Post-Colonial Politics In re-Theorizing India’s National Identity Part 1: Education and Ideology 2. Hindu Nationalism Versus Secularism and the Social Realities of Discrimination 3. India’s Neoliberal Schools: The Hindu Nationalist and Neoliberal Agenda in School Education Part 2: The Effects of Neoliberalism on Teachers and Higher Education 4. Teachers’ Voices: Neoliberal and Hindu Nationalist Agendas in School Education in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Assam 5. Higher Education, Neoliberalism and Hindu Nationalism Part 3: Whither India? 6. The Effects of the Indian Political Choice Model on Citizenship Under the BJP Modi Government Epilogue: India at 75

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Book SynopsisThis is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools in the United States was implemented. Written by a distinguished group of historians, the twelve essays in this collection examine how African Americans and their supporters in twelve states - Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada, and Wisconsin - dealt with the Court's mandate to desegregate "with all deliberate speed". The process followed many diverse paths.Some of the common themes in these efforts were the importance of black activism, especially the crucial role played by the NAACP; entrenched white opposition to school integration, which wasn't just a southern state issue, as is shown in Delaware, Wisconsin, and Indiana; and the role of the federal government, a sometimes inconstant and sometimes reluctant source of support for implementing Brown.Trade Review"An important and ambitious volume. . . . It contributes to a fuller understanding of the history and legacy of Brown and raises important questions about the broader thrust of the Civil Rights Movement and the nature of its achievements." —Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina, author of Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era"This book addresses a crucial question about twentieth century race relations and law. . . . An interesting collection of essays from an unexpected variety of places." —Robert J. Norrell, University of Tennessee, author of The House I Live In: Race in the American Century

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Book SynopsisThere are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it felt to have lived it. A Hard Rain is one writer’s reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era—one that, for better or worse, lives with us still." With A Hard Rain Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests movements against it. Gaillard also examines the cultural manifestations of change in the era—music, literature, art, religion, and science—and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers. As Gaillard remembers these influential people, he weaves together a compelling story about an iconic American decade of change, conflict, and progress.Trade ReviewA totally absorbing read! Frye Gaillard takes us there and makes it all so real that we forget we're reading. Older readers will feel young, uncertain, and idealistic again. Younger readers will hope to find the courage of the 1960s — in politics, artistic expression, science — to improve the lot of all humankind on this precious earth. Gaillard's A Hard Rain is worthy of the best literary prizes our country can bestow." - Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance"A child of the Sixties and one of the leading civil-rights reporters of his generation, Frye Gaillard has given us a riveting tour along what he calls the fine line between history and journalism. As a reporter, he has witnessed a great deal and interviewed many of the key figures of the decade that shaped America’s future while breaking its heart. As a scholar, he has read widely and thought deeply about our nation’s halting pursuit of justice and mercy for all. A Hard Rain is essential reading for a time when an American president has willfully ignored the hard-earned lessons from our passage through the most tumultuous decade of social change since the Civil War." - Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times"The Sixties had it all — social movements and space exploration, once-in-a-generation musicians and once-in-a-lifetime martyrs, a Cold War and a hot one, too. A Hard Rain beautifully ties it all together in poetic prose that makes the pain and pleasure, tragedy and triumph of these tumultuous years come alive. Whether you came of age during the Sixties like author Frye Gaillard or were born after it like me, A Hard Rain is the new starting point for anyone who wants to understand the most impactful decade of the 20th century." - Hasan Kwame Jeffries, professor of history, Ohio State University, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt"Frye Gaillard has long been one of the South’s most imaginative popular historians, and his remarkable gift for combining history and memory has never been more apparent than in his new book on the 1960s, A Hard Rain. Of the many books that have tried to capture the spirit and meaning of this tumultuous decade, A Hard Rain is surely among the best. Gaillard’s mastery of the art of storytelling, along with his unerring accuracy in characterizing the era’s leading political and cultural figures, turns his personal reflections into compelling and insightful history." - Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"A Hard Rain is a smart, readable survey, at once personal and universal, of a decade that is still under debate today. Taking a broadly synoptic view, Frye Gaillard focuses on small moments that yielded huge effects. The battle against racial division quickly emerges as a major theme in Gaillard's narrative, with mileposts such as Thurgood Marshall's key role in Supreme Court decisions about how it wasn't enough simply not to segregate; integration was required, too. An illuminating, you-are-there view of events on the ground in the turbulent 1960s." - Kirkus Reviews"I’m swept away by how comprehensive A Hard Rain is, by its anecdotal style, its readability, the range of topics, ambition of the undertaking, and emotionality and intellectual integrity of the author. There has been a lot of attention these last few years to the 1960s as any number of fiftieth anniversaries have been celebrated. But these have been like drum solos. Frye Gaillard’s book, with its mixture of the personal and scholarly, with its weaving together of so many stories, is simply symphonic. This is great work." - Malcolm Margolin, author and award-winning editor and founder of Heyday and News from Native California"An enlightening picture of America at a historic juncture." - Publishers Weekly Starred Review"As a history, A Hard Rain is exhaustive, recounting not only well-known events such as the Kennedy assassinations and the March on Washington but also dozens of less publicized incidents that spoke to the national mood. Frye Gaillard excels at weaving his own experiences of the decade without distracting from the overall narrative, and his research brings long-forgotten events to the fore. A full-scale, flowing journey through the decade." - Library Journal"A Hard Rain traces the history of the raucous decade in which Frye Gaillard and this writer both grew up. The resulting work is one of those culmination-of-a-life's-work books most non-fiction writers can only dream about. The book is a powerful, engaging mix of concise, hard reporting with a strong narrative thrust and a personal touch. It's also a great read, in Gaillard's trademark knowledgeable but casual, nearly conversational style. A jaw-dropping popular history of the 1960s." - Creative Loafing"The great strength of A Hard Rain is that the author deftly weaves together a narrative of people — some well-known and some less so — and their recollections. A Hard Rain has a broad sweep. It is impressive that the author was able to treat so many topics and details while maintaining a highly readable story. The synthesis here is superb. For those seeking to revisit a formative time in their life, or for others looking for an introduction to a hinge point of history, this is a terrific book." - Washington Independent Review of Books"A Hard Rain vividly conveys the ethical and spiritual dimensions of hope, possibility, and innocence lost during this change-filled decade. An impressive book of cultural criticism." - Spirituality & Practice"If you lived through the 1960s and still don’t have a handle on that kaleidoscopic era, or if you’ve heard about the wacky Sixties and want to understand them, then run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookseller and buy A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility and Innocence Lost." - Martha’s Vineyard Times

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Book SynopsisCitizen Lobbyists explores how U.S. citizens participate in local government. Although many commentators have lamented the apathy of the American citizenry, Brian Adams focuses on what makes ordinary Americans become involved in and attempt to influence public policy issues that concern them. It connects theory and empirical data in a new and revealing way, providing both a thorough review of the relevant scholarly discussions and a detailed case study of citizen engagement in the politics of Santa Ana, a mid-sized Southern California city. After interviewing more than fifty residents, Adams found that they can be best described as \u0022lobbyists\u0022 who identify issues of personal importance and then lobby their local government bodies. Through his research, he discovered that public meetings and social networks emerged as essential elements in citizens' efforts to influence local policy. By testing theory against reality, this work fills a void in our understanding of the actual participatory practices of \u0022civically engaged\u0022 citizens.Trade Review"This book is a valuable contribution to the literature on grassroots politics in American communities... In his focus on the issues that prompt participation and on the nature of the citizen lobbying responses that result, Brian Adams plows new ground in the study of citizen activism. Citizen Lobbyists is a worthwhile read." -Urban Affairs ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Citizen Efforts to Influence Local Policy Part II: Participation Across Local Policies Chapter 3: Policy Characteristics and Patterns of Participation Chapter 4: Policy Entrepreneurs and the Opportunity to Participate Chapter 5: Local Newspapers and Participation Chapter 6: Social Conflict and Participation Part III: How Citizens Participate Chapter 7: Participatory Strategies and Tactics: An Overview Chapter 8: Public Meetings and the Democratic Process Chapter 9: The Political Value of Social Networks Part IV: Conclusion Chapter 10: The Practice of Local Democracy Appendix: Policies Discussed by Interview Respondents Notes References Tables and Figures

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Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts-from letters, preaching, and speeches to labor organizing, protests, journalism, and theater by white and black women, indigenous people, and Chinese immigrants-but also relates conflicts over imperialism, colonialism, women's rights, temperance, and slavery to today's struggles over racial justice, sexual freedom, access to multimodal knowledge, and the unjust effects of sociopolitical hierarchies. The editors' introduction traces recent scholarship on activist rhetorics and the turn in rhetorical theory toward the work of marginalized voices calling for radical social change.Trade ReviewThis book documents what we know about rhetorical activism in the American nineteenth century better than any previous edited collection or research monograph." - Peter Mortensen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Given the broad debates about the role of activism in academe and among public intellectuals, this collection is a timely contribution." - John K. Young, Marshall University

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Book SynopsisThis title offers a superb collection of emotionally charged photographs that document a poignant day in American history. "This Is the Day" is a stirring photo-essay documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. This book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the historic march that ultimately led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Never before published in book form, the 75 photographs in this volume were chosen from among the hundreds of images that Freed captured - before, during, and after the march. These images not only present us with stunning wide-angle views of hundreds of thousands of marchers overflowing the National Mall but also focus on small groups of people straining to see the speakers and on individual faces, each one filled with hope and yearning, epitomized by the beautiful young woman who throws her entire being into singing "We Shall Overcome."

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Book SynopsisThe history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs of the era to focus on images of everyday activists who fought campaigns against segregation, police brutality, and job discrimination from Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles to Seattle, Des Moines, Wichita, and Spokane. With images by photojournalists, artists, and activists including Bob Adelman, Charles Brittin, Leonard Freed, Diana Davies, Matt Herron, Gordon Parks, and many others, North of Dixie offers a broader and more complex view of the American civil rights movement than is usually presented in books, television, and film. North of Dixie also considers the camera as a tool that served both those in support of the movement and against it. Photographs inspired activists, galvanized public support, and implored local and national politicians to act, but they also provided means of surveillance and repression that were used against movement participants. North of Dixie brings to light numerous long-forgotten or previously unknown images and illuminates the multifaceted story of the civil rights movement in the American North and West.Trade Review"With over one hundred images, many never before published, North of Dixie offers a complex and inclusive view of the civil rights era in America."--African American Intellectual History Society "A hard-hitting photographic look at the fight for civil rights."--On Milwaukee "This compendium demonstrates how many mid-century civil rights struggles were waged far above the Mason-Dixon line. With requisite coverage of famed leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, the survey also reveals hundreds of unknown activists and unsung heroes from myriad walks of life, united in a courageous struggle for social change, dignity, and survival."--American Photo, The Best Photography Books of the Year: 2016 "North of Dixie is a stunning compilation of photos, combining images of strength and reserve evident in activists in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Los Angeles with images of the backlash they faced."--Huffington Post "As the overwhelming negative issues of race persist in tearing away at the soul of our nation, America needs to be more enlightened on the history of this subject and how it continues to demand resolve morally and politically. As Dr. King often said, 'If the issue of race is not squarely debated and favorably brought to closure this nation will not survive.' North of Dixie makes this tragic story of our nation worthy of our attention. It helps us understand the ways in which this tragedy can be addressed. This opportunity should not be missed." --Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, and social activist "Powerful and compelling."--Yahoo "The imagery in [Speltz's] book, North of Dixie: Civil Rights beyond the South (available in November), captures the essence of the violent climate toward grassroots activists and civilians alike who participated in peaceful protests."--Daily Beast "A much-welcome corrective to standard histories, as well as journalistic coverage at the time, which focused on Jim Crow segregation in the South, especially as captured in some historic, disturbing and indelible images of the day."-New York Times

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Book SynopsisHow Ohio's women were essential to the national women's suffrage movement Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a long history of such debates and suffrage campaigns. The struggle for women's voting rights, in particular, required persistence in the face of defeat, and unbeknownst to most people, Ohio—the fifth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment—played a key role in the national women's suffrage movement.Covering 70 years of the movement, from 1850 through 1920, Jamie Capuzza demonstrates that the tendency to overlook the contributions of Ohio suffragists dates back to the earliest years of the movement. Ohioans were the first to petition a government for women's enfranchisement, and Ohioans helped build the infrastructure for the movement by forming the nation's first state women's rights organization and by hosting two of the earliest national women's rights conventions.Many of the movement's early leaders were Ohioans, including Frances Barker Gage, a movement leader since the 1850s who was among the first to emphasize the inherent connections between gender and race by linking women's suffrage to African American suffrage; Victoria Claflin Woodhull, a stockbroker, newspaper publisher, and radical activist who was the first woman ever to address the US Congress or to run for the US presidency; and Harriet Taylor Upton, president of the Ohio Women's Suffrage Association longer than any other woman and executive in the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, who hobnobbed with presidents and congressmen. Also among the leadership were African Americans with Ohio connections such as Mary Church Terrell, Frances Harper, Julia Cooper, Hallie Brown, Jane Hunter, Carrie Clifford, and Jewelia Higgins.The Fifth Star describes these determined leaders, their agenda, organizational capacity, and political engagement. Drawing on extensive historical records and primary sources, including suffrage convention proceedings, state senate and house reports, local mainstream and feminist media, and the personal letters and diaries of Ohio reformers, Capuzza details this fight in the context of the national women's rights movement and parallel reform movements like abolitionism and temperance. The Fifth Star is a story of remarkable perseverance and determination in pursuit of the most fundamental right in a democracy, the right to vote.Trade Review"In The Fifth Star, Jamie Capuzza deftly situates Ohio women's long fight for social reform and women's rights within the larger arc of US women's history. Capuzza brings to life a colorful cast of Ohio women, long overshadowed by their sisters to the east, who fought side by side with the likes of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Carrie Chapman Catt. And offering a timely reminder to readers today, Capuzza also shows how women working at the local and state levels can drive national movements for change. The Fifth Star will likely stand as the definitive history of Ohio women's struggle to secure their rights for decades to come." —Gina M. Martino, author of Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast

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Book SynopsisHistorian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities—in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. These suffragists, mostly Yankees who migrated from the Northeast after the Civil War, participated enthusiastically in settling the region and developing communal institutions such as libraries, schools, churches, and parks. Meanwhile, as Egge’s detailed local study also shows, the efforts of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association did not always succeed in promoting the movement’s goals. Instead, it gained support among Midwesterners only when local rural women claimed the right to vote on the basis of their well-established civic roles and public service. By investigating civic responsibility, Egge reorients scholarship on woman suffrage and brings attention to the Midwest, a region overlooked by most historians of the movement. In doing so, she sheds new light onto the ways suffragists rejuvenated the cause in the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisThe Spirit of an Activist chronicles the life and distinguished career of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911-1985), a Protestant pastor, civil rights leader, and South Carolina statesman. Known as a tenacious advocate for racial equality, Newman was also renowned for his diplomatic skills when working with opponents and his advocacy of nonviolent protest over confrontation. His leadership and dedication to peaceful change played an important role in the dismantling of segregation in South Carolina. The thirteen narratives in this volume by such diverse contributors as Richard W. Riley, William Saunders, Esther Nell Witherspoon, and Donald L. Fowler attest to Newman's impact on South Carolina. Editor Sadye L. M. Logan orchestrates these many contributions into an informative, moving, and sometimes passionate collage of Newman's challenges, triumphs, and small and significant everyday acts of courage.Through this collection Logan takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from Newman's childhood in Darlington County, South Carolina, to his death at the age of seventy-four. Along that journey Newman led the state's African Americans to join the Democratic Party and was a delegate to several Democratic Presidential Conventions. In 1983 he became the first African American South Carolinian elected to the State Senate in nearly a century. The Spirit of an Activist is essentially biographical, but it uses a diverse chorus of voices to capture Newman's rich and varied contributions in transforming South Carolina's rigid and unjust social systems. His quiet dignity and appeals to reason won him the confidence, and ultimately the support, of key white political and economic leaders. In effect Newman served both as chief strategist for the protest movement and as chief negotiator at the conference table, becoming the ""unofficial liaison"" between South Carolina's African American citizens and the state's white power structure. In the years that followed formal desegregation, Newman remained active in politics and became a trusted confidant of state leaders, many of whom are featured in this volume. The Spirit of an Activist includes a foreword by attorney and civil rights activist Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., and a prologue by South Carolina congressman James E. Clyburn, both personal friends of Newman who worked with him during the civil rights struggle.

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Book SynopsisFrom his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an extraordinary life. In Blessed Experiences, Clyburn tells in his own inspirational words how an African American boy from the Jim Crow-era South was able to beat the odds to achieve great success and become, as President Barack Obama describes him, ""one of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens.Born in 1940 to a civic-minded beautician and a fundamentalist minister, Clyburn began his ascent to leadership at the age of twelve, when he was elected president of his National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth chapter. He broke barriers through peaceful protests and steadfast beliefs in equality and justice. Of his success Clyburn says he was ""blessed with nurturing parents, a supportive family, and loyal friends."" But, he added, ""my life was not just about knocking down doors and lowering barriers. I spent some time marching in the streets and occupying the inside of South Carolina jails."" As a civil rights leader at South Carolina State College, as human affairs commissioner under John C. West and three subsequent governors, and as South Carolina's first African American congressman since 1897, Clyburn has established a long and impressive record of public leadership and advocacy for human rights, education, historic preservation, and economic development. Clyburn was elected to Congress in 1992. Serving as copresident of his freshman class, he rose quickly through the ranks and was elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1999 and House Democratic Caucus vice chair in 2002. Three years later he was unanimously elected chair of the Democratic Caucus. When Democrats regained the House majority in 2006, Clyburn was elected House majority whip. Now as assistant Democratic leader in the 112th Congress, Clyburn, a self-described independent, prides himself on working to overcome barriers and destroy myths without becoming too predictable. ""I have worked across party lines to further legislative causes, and on occasion publicly differed with some of my allies in the civil rights community,"" says Clyburn. ""My experiences have not always been pleasant, but I have considered all of them blessings."" Blessed Experiences includes a foreword from Emmy Award-winning actress and the congressman's longtime friend Alfre Woodard.

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Book SynopsisThis third volume of The History of Beaufort County by Rowland, Lawrence S. and Stephen R. Wise encompasses the remaining 113 years of the 500-year chronicle of the legendary South Carolina Sea Islands. Bridging the Sea Islands' Past and Present, 1893-2006 begins with the devastating Sea Island Hurricane of 1893, one of the worst natural disasters in American history. The storm was followed by a hurricane of violence, political and social revolution, economic chaos, and ideological turmoil that battered twentieth-century Beaufort and the world. Paradoxically the twentieth century was also an epoch of nearly unbroken scientific and medical progress, technological innovation, cultural experimentation, and the expansion of democratic institutions throughout the world. Modern Beaufort County has been a testing ground for the reunion of North and South in the aftermaths of the Civil War, Great Depression, and defeated Jim Crow laws.The great exodus of African Americans away from Beaufort County and the post-World War II sunbelt immigration transformed Beaufort County from a majority black population in 1900 to a majority white population in 1960. Perhaps the county's most representative immigrant experience has been that of retirees and resort-home owners, a phenomenon that began in the late nineteenth century as wealthy northerners--financiers, industrialists, and industrial farmers--began purchasing former plantations and transformed them into private hunting preserves. The new Beaufortonians revolutionized lowcountry life and culture as they brought new forms of economic enterprise, social and cultural values, and worldviews different from those that had shaped Beaufort County for centuries. Monumental political events are fully addressed from an insider's point of view, but, amid all the frontiers, storms, and demographic revolutions, Rowland and Wise have also provided a business history of the American South. Enterprise and entrepreneurship, whether successful or failed, link together all the themes and unite all the actors found in this work.Here readers meet Robert Smalls, Thomas E. Miller, George Waterhouse, Niels Christensen, Thomas Talbird, Tillie O'Dell, Isabella Glen, William Keyserling, Kate Gleason, Harriet Keyserling, Charles Fraser, and Bobby Ginn--active agents of change in politics, business, and culture. Indeed Rowland and Wise have not only chronicled the lives and times of these people but have also been active participants in the stories they tell. Rowland is a Beaufort native with centuries-old lowcountry lineage. Wise, an Ohio transplant, is a scholar of the Civil War and the local history of his adopted home.

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Book SynopsisImages of upraised fists, afros, and dashikis have long dominated the collective memory of Black Power and its proponents. The ""guerilla"" figure--taking the form of the black-leather-clad revolutionary within the Black Panther Party--has become an iconic trope in American popular culture. That politically radical figure, however, has been shaped as much by Asian American cultural discourse as by African American political ideology. From the Asian-African Conference held in April of 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia, onward to the present, Afro-Asian political collaboration has been active and influential.In Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities, author Rychetta Watkins uses the guerilla figure as a point of departure and shows how the trope's rhetoric animates discourses of representation and identity in African American and Asian American literature and culture. In doing so, she examines the notion of ""Power,"" in terms of ethnic political identity, and explores collaborating--and sometimes competing--ethnic interests that have drawn ideas from the concept. The project brings together a range of texts--editorial cartoons, newspaper articles, novels, visual propaganda, and essays--that illustrate the emergence of this subjectivity in Asian American and African American cultural productions during the Power period, roughly 1966 through 1981. After a case study of the cultural politics of academic anthologies and the cooperation between Frank Chin and Ishmael Reed, the volume culminates with analyses of this trope in Sam Greenlee's The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Alice Walker's Meridian, and John Okada's No No Boy.

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Book SynopsisWhen Alexandria, Virginia's first public library was constructed just a few blocks from his home, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a young, Black attorney, was appalled to learn that he could not use the library because of his race. Inspired by the legal successes of the NAACP in discrimination cases, he organized a grassroots protest to desegregate the library that his tax dollars supported.Public in Name Only tells the important, but largely forgotten, story of Tucker and a group of Black citizens who agitated for change in the terms and conditions of their lives. Employing the combined strategies of direct-action public protest, nonviolent civil disobedience, and municipal litigation, Tucker's initiative dovetailed with the national priorities and tactics of larger civil rights organizations. While Tucker's campaign did not end with the desegregation of the Alexandria Library, but instead resulted in the creation of a "separate-and-unequal" Jim Crow Black branch, the sit-in demonstration represents a momentous early struggle for racial equity waged through civil rights activism.

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Book SynopsisLewis M. Steel, born a Warner Brothers' grandson, inherited a life of privilege, access, and opportunity. With every option available, he chose a life of purpose, spending more than fifty years as a no-holds-barred civil rights lawyer whose victories set legal precedents still relevant today. In The Butler's Child, Steel explores the important role race played in his upbringing, anchored by his relationship with the family's African American butler, and why this attorney has devoted his life to pursuing racial justice.This insightful life story chronicles his close relationship with Robert L. Carter, his mentor and extraordinary NAACP general counsel. Steel was there during the Attica uprising, represented innocent African Americans in front-page murder cases, and played a central role in the evolution of civil rights law from the height of the movement to landmark cases in the decades that followed. The Butler's Child provides an insider's look at some of these emotion-packed, hard-fought trials and decisions from the 1960s to the present by an attorney still working to advance rights that should be available to all.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the American South. At the heart of the debate is the question of what these monuments represent. The arguments and counterarguments are formulated around sets of assumptions grounded in Southern history, politics, culture, and race relations. Comprehending and evaluating accurately the associated claims and counterclaims calls for a careful examination of facts and legal considerations relevant to each side's assertations. In Monumental Harm, Roger C. Hartley offers a road map to addressing and resolving this acrimonious debate.Although history and popular memory play a vital role in the discussion, there have been distortions of both parts. Monumental Harm reviews the fact-based history of the initial raising of these monuments and distinguishes it from the popular memory held by many Confederate-monument supporters. Hartley also addresses concerns regarding the potential erasure of history and the harm these monuments have caused the African American community over the years, as well as the role they continue to play in politics and power.The recent rise in White nationalism and the video-recorded murders of Black citizens at the hands of White police officers have led to nationwide demonstrations and increased scrutiny of Confederate monuments on public land. As injustice is laid bare and tempers flare, the need for a peaceful resolution becomes ever-more necessary. Monumental Harm offers a way to break the rhetorical deadlock, urging that we evaluate the issue through the lens of the U.S. Constitution while employing the overarching democratic principle that no right is absolute. Through constructive discourse and good-faith compromise, a more perfect union is within reach.

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Book SynopsisAt 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight, five-foot-one-inch frame into the electric chair. His small size made it difficult to affix the electrode to his right leg and the face mask, which was clearly too large, fell to the floor when the executioner flipped the switch. That day, George Stinney became, and today remains, the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century.How was it possible, even in Jim Crow South Carolina, for a child to be convicted, sentenced to death, and executed based on circumstantial evidence in a trial that lasted only a few hours? Through extensive archival research and interviews with Stinney's contemporaries-men and women alive today who still carry distinctive memories of the events that rocked the small town of Alcolu and the entire state-Eli Faber pieces together the chain of events that led to this tragic injustice.The first book to fully explore the events leading to Stinney's death, The Child in the Electric Chair offers a compelling narrative with a meticulously researched analysis of the world in which Stinney lived-the era of lynching, segregation, and racist assumptions about Black Americans. Faber explains how a systemically racist system, paired with the personal ambitions of powerful individuals, turned a blind eye to human decency and one of the basic tenets of the American legal system that individuals are innocent until proven guilty.As society continues to grapple with the legacies of racial injustice, the story of George Stinney remains one that can teach us lessons about our collective past and present. By ably placing the Stinney case into a larger context, Faber reveals how this case is not just a travesty of justice locked in the era of the Jim Crow South but rather one that continues to resonate in our own time.A foreword is provided by Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College at the City University of New York and author of several books including Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.

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Book SynopsisAs the first comprehensive study of one state's federal district courts during the long civil rights movement, The Slow Undoing argues for a reconsideration of the role of the federal courts in the civil rights movement. It places the courts as a central battleground at the intersections of struggles over race, law, and civil rights. During the long civil rights movement, Black and White South Carolinians used the courts as a venue to contest the meanings of the constitution, justice, equality, and citizenship.African American plaintiffs and lawyers from South Carolina, with the support of Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, brought and argued civil rights lawsuits in South Carolina's federal courts attempting to secure the vote, raise teacher salaries, and to equalize and then desegregate schools, parks, and public life. In response, white citizens, state politicians, and local officials, hired their own lawyers who countered these arguments by crafting new legal theories in an attempt to defend state practices and thwart African American aspirations of equality and to preserve white supremacy.The Slow Undoing argues for a reconsideration of the role of federal courts in the civil rights movement by demonstrating that both before and after Brown v. Board of Education, the federal district courts were centrally important to achieving and solidifying civil rights gains. It relies on the entire legal record of actions in the federal district courts of South Carolina from 1940 to 1970 to make the case. It argues that rather than relying on litigation during the pre-Brown era and direct action in the post-Brown era, African Americans instead used courts and direct action in tandem to bring down legal segregation throughout the long civil rights era. But the process was far from linear and the courts were not always a progressive force. The battles were long, the victories won were often imperfect, and many of the fights remain. Author Stephen H. Lowe offers a chronicle of this enduring struggle.

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Book SynopsisWhen civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us."In this first comprehensive biography of Williams, Rolundus Rice demonstrates the truth in Lewis's words and argues that Williams's activism in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was of central importance to the success of the larger civil rights movement. Rice traces Williams's journey from a local activist in Georgia to a national leader and one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief lieutenants. He helped plan the Selma-to-Montgomery march and walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Lewis across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday." While his hard-charging tactics were counter to the diplomatic approach of other SCLC leaders, Rice argues that it was this contrast in styles that made the organization successful.Andrew Young Jr., former SCLC executive director, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of Atlanta, provides a foreword.

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Book SynopsisWhen civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us."In this first comprehensive biography of Williams, Rolundus Rice demonstrates the truth in Lewis's words and argues that Williams's activism in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was of central importance to the success of the larger civil rights movement. Rice traces Williams's journey from a local activist in Georgia to a national leader and one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief lieutenants. He helped plan the Selma-to-Montgomery march and walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Lewis across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday." While his hard-charging tactics were counter to the diplomatic approach of other SCLC leaders, Rice argues that it was this contrast in styles that made the organization successful.Andrew Young Jr., former SCLC executive director, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of Atlanta, provides a foreword.

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Book SynopsisGlobalization is changing what citizens need to know and be able to do by interrupting the assumption that the actions of citizens only take place within national borders. If our neighborhoods and nations are affecting and being affected by the world, then our political consciousness must be worldminded. The outcomes of globalization have led educators to rethink what students need to learn and be able to do as citizens in a globally connected world.This volume focuses on research that examines how K-12 teachers and students are currently addressing the challenge of becoming citizens in a globally interconnected world. Although there is an extensive body of literature on citizenship education within national contexts and a growing literature on global education, this volume offers research on the work educators are doing across multiple countries to bring the two fields together to develop global citizens.

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Book SynopsisGlobalization is changing what citizens need to know and be able to do by interrupting the assumption that the actions of citizens only take place within national borders. If our neighborhoods and nations are affecting and being affected by the world, then our political consciousness must be worldminded. The outcomes of globalization have led educators to rethink what students need to learn and be able to do as citizens in a globally connected world.This volume focuses on research that examines how K-12 teachers and students are currently addressing the challenge of becoming citizens in a globally interconnected world. Although there is an extensive body of literature on citizenship education within national contexts and a growing literature on global education, this volume offers research on the work educators are doing across multiple countries to bring the two fields together to develop global citizens.

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Book Synopsis‘What are democracies meant to do? And how does one know when one is a democratic state?’ These incisive questions and more by leading political scientist, Steven Friedman, underlie this robust enquiry into what democracy means for South Africa post 1994. Democracy and its prospects are often viewed through a lens which reflects the dominant Western understanding. New democracies are compared to idealised notions of the way in which the system is said to operate in the global North. The democracies of Western Europe and North America are understood to be the finished product and all others are assessed by how far they have progressed towards approximating this model. The goal of new democracies, like South Africa and other developing nation-states, is thus to become like the global North. Power in Action persuasively argues against this stereotype. Friedman asserts that democracies can only work when every adult has an equal say in the public decisions that affect them. From this point of view, democracies are not finished products and some nations in the global South may be more democratic than their Northern counterparts. Democracy is achieved not by adopting idealised models derived from other societies – rather, it is the product of collective action by citizens who claim the right to be heard not only through public protest action, but also through the conscious exercise of influence on public and private power holders. Viewing democracy in this way challenges us to develop a deeper understanding of democracy’s challenges and in so doing to ensure that more citizens can claim a say over more decisions in society.Trade Review"This is Steven Friedman at his best, combining an implicit passion for democratic change with considered analysis and judgement. By democratic change Friedman means going beyond electoral choice. He means that those who are poor must be able to shape and construct their own lives, structures of living and life choices. This is hardly simple and Friedman argues it is a long project in the making – but that it needs to be made. His argument forms an intellectually considered backdrop to unrest in today’s South Africa. It is a quarter century since majority rule elections were meant to transform South Africa – yet everywhere there is poverty, and there are the preludes to a great clash between elite views of what democracy entails, and what the economically disenfranchised will demand. Friedman’s book makes a critical and timely contribution to an urgent debate – timely because there may not be much time left." -- Stephan Chan, Professor of World Politics, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of LondonTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 The Journey Lasts Forever: Beyond ‘Democratic Consolidation’ Chapter 2 Deeper and Broader: What Makes Democracies More or Less Democratic? Chapter 3 Democracy in Deed: The Centrality of Collective Action Chapter 4 Colonisation of a Sympathetic Type? The Culture of Democracy Chapter 5 Another Lens: Collective Action and Democracy in Africa Chapter 6 Every Day is a Special Day: Collective Action as Democratic Routine Chapter 7 Power is Theirs? Why Collective Action Is Usually the Preserve of the Few Chapter 8 Collective Action as Democratic Citizenship: The Treatment Action Campaign Chapter 9 Towards Popular Sovereignty: Building a Deeper and Stronger Democracy Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that there are more than 12 million stateless people in the world. The existence of stateless populations challenges some central tenets of international law and contemporary human rights discourses, yet only a very small number of states have made measurable progress in helping individuals acquire or regain citizenship. This fascinating study examines positive developments in eight countries and pinpoints the benefits of citizenship now enjoyed by formerly stateless persons.The expert contributors present an original comparative study that draws upon legal and political analysis as well as empirical research (incorporating over 120 interviews conducted in eight countries), and features the documentary photography of Greg Constantine. The benefits of citizenship over statelessness are identified at both community and individual level, and include the fundamental right to enjoy a nationality, to obtain identification documents, to be represented politically, to access the formal labor market and to move about freely. Gaining or reacquiring citizenship helps eliminate isolation and solicits the empowerment of individuals, collectively and personally. Such changes are of considerable importance to the advancement of a human rights regime based on dignity and respect. This highly original and thought-provoking book will strongly appeal to a wide-ranging audience including academics, researchers, students, human rights activists and government officials with an interest in a diverse range of fields encompassing law, international studies, public policy, human rights and citizenship.Trade Review‘In our supposedly borderless world, having a nationality, and thus access to documents which permit travel and proof of identity, has become increasingly important. In many parts of the world, including the cases in Europe, Africa and Asia covered in this collection, large groups of people struggle with forms of de facto or de jure statelessness. In addition to providing a conceptual framework derived from international human rights norms for understanding better the phenomenon of statelessness, this collection presents important empirical research material helping us to understand, from the ground up, how statelessness is experienced.’ -- Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh, UK‘What difference does citizenship make? The vulnerability of stateless persons clearly demonstrates the benefits of having a nationality. But so far nobody has examined how much the situation of stateless persons improves when they finally get documents and citizenship status. This exploratory study analyses practical difficulties and real progress in overcoming statelessness. It gives voice to the victims and sets a political agenda. Academic researchers, non-governmental organizations and policy-makers should read this book.’ -- Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute, Florence, Italy‘Embracing a subject that is generally treated abstractly, as a matter of human rights law, the authors of this pathbreaking book root statelessness deep into historical context and lived experience. They emerge with conclusions that are both dismaying (the expansive scope of the problem) and hopeful (the measurable progress some states have made in expanding the boundaries of citizenship). Alas, this eloquent book could hardly be more timely.’ -- Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Statelessness and the Deprivation of Nationality Brad K. Blitz and Maureen Lynch 2. Nationality and Rights Laura van Waas 3. Citizenship in Kenya: The Nubian Case Abraham Korir Sing’Oei 4. From Erased and Excluded to Active Participants in Slovenia Jelka Zorn 5. From Statelessness to Citizenship: Up-country Tamils in Sri Lanka P.P. Sivapragasam 6. Citizenship Reform and Challenges for the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine Rustem Ablyatifov 7. The Urdu-speakers of Bangladesh: An Unfinished Story of Enforcing Citizenship Rights Katherine Southwick 8. Mauritania: Citizenship Lost and Found Julia Harrington Reddy 9. Statelessness, Citizenship and Belonging in Estonia Raivo Vetik 10. Arabia’s Bidoon Abbas Shiblak 11. Summary and Conclusions Maureen Lynch and Brad K. Blitz 12. Epilogue James A. Goldston Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis outstanding Handbook establishes the relationship between political citizenship and social movements as an area of study. As an in-depth and well-conceived source for beginners, experienced scholars and students alike, it provides theoretically rich, methodologically diverse, and empirically wide-ranging chapters on political struggles over citizenship. Moreover, the bridging between sociological and political theories of movements and citizenship reveals both in a different light.'- Engin Isin, The Open UniversitySince the 1960s, social movements and political citizenship have become buzzwords not only in social and political life but also in social and political science. The impact of the environmental and women's movements, and the advance of multicultural, European and cosmopolitan citizenship in modern history are cases in point.The study of citizenship traditionally refers to the individual dimension of social and political behavior. Social movement studies, however, refer to the collective dimension of such behavior. Despite distinct trajectories in their theoretical development, the social movement and citizenship paradigms converge where social movements are viewed as collective forms of political citizenship. This Handbook uniquely collates results of several decades of academic research in these two fields. The expert contributions successively address the different forms of political citizenship and current approaches and recent developments in social movement studies. Salient social movements in recent history are explored in depth, covering the environmental, women's, international human rights, urban, Tea Party, and animal rights movements. Social movements and political citizenship in the global South : China, India, Africa, and the Arab World, are discussed, presenting a novel empirical insight into these fields of study.Social scientists, MA and PhD students conducting research in social movements and citizenship, at a theoretical and empirical level, will benefit from the authoritative assessment of forms of political citizenship and major developments in social movement studies.Contributors: E. Ashbee, J. Bohman, P. Bond, A.M. Clark, R.J. Dalton, P. Danyi, J. Earl, B. Edwards, E. Evans, H. Flam, R.K. Garrett, S. Griggs, P. Hamel, D. Howarth, J. Hunt, M. Kane, D. Kapoor, S. MacGregor, N. Massoumi, N. Meer, R. Meijer, D.S. Meyer, S. Monro, L. Munro, E.D.H. Olsen, M. Reddy, J. Reger, D. Richardson, C. Scholl, S. Tijsterman, H-A. Van der Heijden, P. Wood, L. XieTrade Review‘This new Handbook edited by Hein-Anton van der Heijden systematically presents the literature on social movements and citizenship. It provides a valuable resource for scholars working in both fields, and is useful for faculty and students alike. Most importantly, by bringing together key authors from both fields, this edited volume encourages research linking the two fields, and thus it could provide the basis for a new research agenda that bridges the focus on the microlevel in citizenship research with the meso- or macrolevel foci typical of the social movement literature. The book covers a breadth of research. . . familiar with one or both fields. This volume takes the contributions of citizenship research and applies them to the study of social movements, thereby moving scholarship beyond divisive distinctions between institutional and non-institutional participation.’ -- Swen Hutter and Jasmine Lorenzini, Mobilization‘Enhanced with the inclusion of a fifty-one page Index, the Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements is an essential addition to academic library Political Science reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.’ -- Midwest Book Review‘Social movement and citizenship studies have distinct trajectories of development, but Van der Heijden clearly argues that the fields share much ground in common. What's more, he sucessfully accomplishes the goal stated in the volume's introduction: to bridge or narrow the gap between the two literatures "in order to lay the foundations for a social science research program that would do more justice to social and political reality"’ -- J.J. Reed, Choice‘This outstanding Handbook establishes the relationship between political citizenship and social movements as an area of study. As an in-depth and well-conceived source for beginners, experienced scholars and students alike, it provides theoretically rich, methodologically diverse, and empirically wide-ranging chapters on political struggles over citizenship. Moreover, the bridging between sociological and political theories of movements and citizenship reveals both in a different light.’ -- Engin Isin, The Open University‘Overall, this rich Handbook provides a useful theorisation of many emerging political phenomena.’ -- Political StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Linking Political Citizenship and Social Movements Hein-Anton van der Heijden PART I: POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP: APPROACHES AND FORMS 2. Political Citizenship: Mapping the Terrain Russell J. Dalton 3. Republican Citizenship James Bohman 4. Citizenship, Gender and Sexuality Surya Monro and Diane Richardson 5. Multicultural Citizenship Narzanin Massoumi and Nasar Meer 6. Ecological Citizenship Sherilyn MacGregor 7. Urban Citizenship Patricia Burke Wood 8. European Citizenship Espen D.H. Olsen 9. Global and Cosmopolitan Citizenship Sebastiaan Tijsterman PART II: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: CURRENT APPROACHES AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 10. Resource Mobilization and Social and Political Movements Bob Edwards and Melinda Kane 11. The New Social Movement Approach Christian Scholl 12. Citizenship, Political Opportunities and Social Movements David S. Meyer and Erin Evans 13. Poststructuralism, Social Movements and Citizen Politics Steven Griggs and David Howarth 14. Social Movements and Emotions Helena Flam 15. The Transnationalization of Social Movements Movindri Reddy 16. Social Movements and the ICT-Revolution Jennifer Earl, Jayson Hunt and R. Kelly Garrett PART III: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 17. The Environmental Movement Hein-Anton van der Heijden 18. The Women’s Movement Jo Reger 19. The International Human Rights Movement Ann Marie Clark and Paul Danyi 20. Urban Social Movements Pierre Hamel 21. The Tea Party Movement Edward Ashbee 22. The Animal Rights Movement Lyle Munro PART IV: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 23. Social Movements and Political Citizenship in China Lei Xie 24. Social Movements in India Dip Kapoor 25. Social Movements and Political Citizenship in Africa Patrick Bond 26. Political Citizenship and Social Movements in the Arab World Roel Meijer Index

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Book SynopsisThe papers collected in this volume highlight the complex dynamic relationship between citizenship - as membership status - and the constitutional law which provides the cornerstone of all polities. It shows the many different ways in which we must use constitutional law in order fully to understand how one becomes a citizen, and what the meaning of citizenship is. Edited by a leading authority in the field, this volume contains the key works which cover national, transnational and international aspects of the topic, and the book provides a particular focus on how constitutional law constructs and upholds the range of citizenship rights.With an original introduction by the editor, this timely collection will be a valuable source of reference for students, academics and practitioners interested in citizenship and constitutional law.Trade Review‘What a treasure trove. Jo Shaw’s selection of academic literature on citizenship is a treat. Drawing from all over the globe, it will enable scholars and teachers from many disciplines working in citizenship to get a taste of its legal formulations. As a teacher and scholar of citizenship law, I’ll certainly be drawing on it!’ -- Kim Rubenstein, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Jo Shaw PART I CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE 1. Jean Cohen (1999), ‘Changing Paradigms of Citizenship and the Exclusiveness of the Demos’, International Sociology 14: 245-268 2. Ulrich K. Preuss (1992-1993), ‘Constitutional Powermaking for the New Polity: Some Deliberations on the Relations between Constituent Power and the Constitution’, Cardozo Law Review 14, 639-660 3. Jürgen Habermas (1998), ‘The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship’, Public Culture 10, 397-416 4. James Tully (2008), ‘Two Meanings of Global Citizenship: Modern and Diverse’, In: Michael A. Peters, Harry Blee & Alan Britton (eds.), Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy, Rotterdam: Sense Publication, 15-39 5. David Abraham (2008), ‘Constitutional Patriotism,Citizenship, and Belonging’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 6, 137-152 6. Cécile Laborde (2002), ‘From Constitutional to Civic Patriotism', British Journal of Political Science, 32, 591-612 7. Martha Nussbaum (2008), ‘Toward a Globally Sensitive Patriotism’, Dædalus, 137, 78-93 PART II BECOMING CITIZEN: NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL TRENDS 8. Peter Spiro (2011), ‘A New International Law of Citizenship’, American Journal of International Law, 105, 694-746 9. Patrick Weil (2011), ‘From Conditional to Secured and Sovereign: The New Strategic Link Between the Citizen and the Nation-state in a Globalized World’, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 9, 615-635 10. Rainer Bauböck (2010), ‘Studying Citizenship Constellations’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36, 847-859 11. Szabolcs Pogonyi (2011), ‘Dual Citizenship and Sovereignty’, Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 39 685-704 12. Costica Dumbrava (2014), ‘External Citizenship in EU Countries,’ Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37, 2340-2360 13. Ayelet Shachar and Ran Hirschl (2007), ‘Citizenship as Inherited Property’, Political Theory, 35, 253-287 PART III BEING CITIZEN: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 14. Linda Bosniak (2010), ‘Persons and Citizens in Constitutional Thought’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 8, 9-29 15. Michelle Everson (2003), ‘’Subjects’, or ‘Citizens of Erewhon’? Law and Non-Law in the Development of a ‘British Citizenship’’, Citizenship Studies 7, 57-83 16. Iseult Honohan (2010), ‘Citizenship Attribution in a New Country of Immigration: Ireland’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36, 811-827 17. Enikő Horváth and Ruth Rubio-Marín (2010), ‘”Alles oder Nichts”? The Outer Boundaries of the German Citizenship Debate’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 8, 72-93 18. Igor Štiks (2010), ‘The Citizenship Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe: The Instructive Case of Croatia’, Europe-Asia Studies, 62, 1621-1638 19. Daphne Barak-Erez (2008), ‘Israel: Citizenship and Immigration Law in the Vise of Security, Nationality, and Human Rights’ , International Journal of Constitutional Law, 6, 184-192 PART IV BEYOND STATE BORDERS – THE CITIZENSHIPS OF GLOBALISATION 20. Melissa Williams (2007), 'Non-territorial Boundaries of Citizenship', In: Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro and Danilo Petranović (eds.), Identities, Allegiances, Affiliations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 226-256 21. Theodora Kostakopoulou (2009), ‘Citizenship Goes Public: The Institutional Design of Anational Citizenship’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 17, 275-306 22. Seyla Benhabib (2009), ‘Claiming Rights across Borders: International Human Rights and Democratic Sovereignty’, American Political Science Review, 103, 691-704 23. Neil Walker (2009), ‘Denizenship and Deterritorialization in the European Union’, In: Hans Lindahl (ed.), A Right to Inclusion and Exclusion?: Normative Fault Lines of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Oxford: Hart, 261-72 24. Jo Shaw (2011), ‘Citizenship: Contrasting Dynamics at the Interface of Integration and Constitutionalism’, In: Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca (eds), The Evolution of EU Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 575-609 25. Ferran Requejo (1999), ‘Cultural Pluralism, Nationalism and Federalism: A Revision of Democratic Citizenship in Plurinational States’, European Journal of Political Research 35: 255–286 26. Jo Shaw (2013) ‘Citizenship and the Edges of Europe,’ in C. Franzius, F.C. Mayer and J. Neyer (eds.), Grenzen der Europäischen Union. Integration und Desintegration in Recht und Politik?, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 297-310 PART V RIGHTS, DUTIES AND STRUGGLES: THE AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF THE STATE 27. Margaret Somers (1993), ‘Citizenship and the Place of the Public Sphere: Law, Community, and Political Culture in the Transition to Democracy’, American Sociological Review, 58, 587-620 28. Lucia Zedner (2010), ‘Security, the State, and the Citizen: The Changing Architecture of Crime Control’, New Criminal Law Review, 13, 379–403 29. Christopher Bertram (2014), ‘Competing Methods of Territorial Control, Migration and Justice’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 17, 129-143 30. Rogers M. Smith (2014), ‘National Obligations and Noncitizens: Special Rights, Human Rights, and Immigration’, Politics & Society, 42, 381-398 31. Cristina M. Rodríguez (2010), ‘Noncitizen Voting and the Extraconstitutional Construction of the Polity’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 8, 30-49 32. Jo Shaw (2009) ‘Political Rights and Multilevel Citizenship in Europe’, in E. Guild, K. Groenendijk and S. Carrera (eds.), Illiberal Liberal States: Immigration, Citizenship and Integration in the EU, Farnham, Ashgate, 29-49 33. Ruth Rubio-Marín (2014), ‘The Achievement of Female Suffrage in Europe: On Women’s Citizenship’, International Journal of Constitutional Law 12, 4-34 34. Matthew Gibney (2013), ‘Should Citizenship Be Conditional? The Ethics of Denationalization’, The Journal of Politics, 75, 646–658 35. Peter Nyers (2006), ‘The Accidental Citizen: Acts of Sovereignty and (Un)making Citizenship’, Economy and Society, 35, 22-41 Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely and important book, Professor Brad K. Blitz, a leading expert on post-conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights, reminds us how the concept of freedom of movement, and its relationship to migration, has received little comprehensive treatment among academics, even though it underpins what we expect as individuals living in liberal states. Yet, there are 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants in the world today. It is all the more paradoxical therefore that there is no guarantee of the right of freedom of movement where most migration takes place against the backdrop of both official and unofficial controls. With strong theoretical underpinnings, and drawing from a range of philosophers, both ancient and modern, Professor Blitz, examines the legal foundations for the free movement of people, before undertaking a practical critique of recent free movement experiences in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. This is a tour de force. A work of remarkable scholarship, prescience, and practical relevance, which deserves to be read by all on this much-neglected subject of freedom of movement.'- Satvinder Juss, King s College London, UK'An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still imposed by national borders and sovereignty, and the difficulties migrants face turning movement into successful settlement. Focusing on Europe, and migration experiences internal and external to the EU, as well as within and across national boundaries, the book significantly challenges current immigration paradigms with a series of atypical and provocative case studies.'- Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceMigration and Freedom is a thorough and revealing exploration of the complex relationship between mobility and citizenship in Europe. Brad Blitz draws upon European and international law, political theory, economics, history and contemporary studies of migration to provide an original account of the opportunities and challenges associated with the right to free movement in Europe and beyond.Integrating over 160 interviews with individuals in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, the UK and Russia, this book provides a unique focus on both internal and inter-state mobility and a re-evaluation of the concept of freedom of movement. The author documents successful and unsuccessful settlement and establishment cases and records how both official and informal restrictions on individuals' mobility have effectively created new categories of citizenship and exclusion within Europe.This book is an original study aimed at academics, students and government officials interested in migration, international studies, public and social policy, and politics.Contents: 1. Migration and Freedom 2. Investigating Freedom of Movement 3. Freedom of Movement in Europe 4. Spanish Doctors in the United Kingdom 5. European Language Teachers in Italy 6. Displaced Serbs in Croatia 7. Internal Migrants in Russia 8. Discrimination and Immobility in Slovenia 9. Analysis 10. Conclusion BibliographyTrade Review‘. . . throughout Migration and Freedom: Mobility, Citizenship and Exclusion, Blitz takes great care in detailing the influence of national laws, the European Charter, international customs and principles, and social factors on the freedom of migration movement. . . . The book is suitable for students and academics of several fields including political science, international studies, and law as it discusses the efficcies of - as well as deterrants to - freedom of movement in an evolving global society.’ -- Patricia M. Muhammad, International Social Science Review‘In this timely and important book, Professor Brad K. Blitz, a leading expert on post-conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights, reminds us how the concept of freedom of movement, and its relationship to migration, has received little comprehensive treatment among academics, even though it underpins what we expect as individuals living in liberal states. Yet, there are 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants in the world today. It is all the more paradoxical therefore that there is no guarantee of the right of freedom of movement where most migration takes place against the backdrop of both official and unofficial controls. With strong theoretical underpinnings, and drawing from a range of philosophers, both ancient and modern, Professor Blitz, examines the legal foundations for the free movement of people, before undertaking a practical critique of recent free movement experiences in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. This is a tour de force. A work of remarkable scholarship, prescience, and practical relevance, which deserves to be read by all on this much-neglected subject of freedom of movement.’ -- Satvinder Juss, King’s College London, UK‘An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still imposed by national borders and sovereignty, and the difficulties migrants face turning movement into successful settlement. Focusing on Europe, and migration experiences internal and external to the EU, as well as within and across national boundaries, the book significantly challenges current immigration paradigms with a series of atypical and provocative case studies.’ -- Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Migration and Freedom 2. Investigating Freedom of Movement 3. Freedom of Movement in Europe 4. Spanish Doctors in the United Kingdom 5. European Language Teachers in Italy 6. Displaced Serbs in Croatia 7. Internal Migrants in Russia 8. Discrimination and Immobility in Slovenia 9. Analysis 10. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis outstanding Handbook establishes the relationship between political citizenship and social movements as an area of study. As an in-depth and well-conceived source for beginners, experienced scholars and students alike, it provides theoretically rich, methodologically diverse, and empirically wide-ranging chapters on political struggles over citizenship. Moreover, the bridging between sociological and political theories of movements and citizenship reveals both in a different light.'- Engin Isin, The Open UniversitySince the 1960s, social movements and political citizenship have become buzzwords not only in social and political life but also in social and political science. The impact of the environmental and women's movements, and the advance of multicultural, European and cosmopolitan citizenship in modern history are cases in point.The study of citizenship traditionally refers to the individual dimension of social and political behavior. Social movement studies, however, refer to the collective dimension of such behavior. Despite distinct trajectories in their theoretical development, the social movement and citizenship paradigms converge where social movements are viewed as collective forms of political citizenship. This Handbook uniquely collates results of several decades of academic research in these two fields. The expert contributions successively address the different forms of political citizenship and current approaches and recent developments in social movement studies. Salient social movements in recent history are explored in depth, covering the environmental, women's, international human rights, urban, Tea Party, and animal rights movements. Social movements and political citizenship in the global South : China, India, Africa, and the Arab World, are discussed, presenting a novel empirical insight into these fields of study.Social scientists, MA and PhD students conducting research in social movements and citizenship, at a theoretical and empirical level, will benefit from the authoritative assessment of forms of political citizenship and major developments in social movement studies.Contributors: E. Ashbee, J. Bohman, P. Bond, A.M. Clark, R.J. Dalton, P. Danyi, J. Earl, B. Edwards, E. Evans, H. Flam, R.K. Garrett, S. Griggs, P. Hamel, D. Howarth, J. Hunt, M. Kane, D. Kapoor, S. MacGregor, N. Massoumi, N. Meer, R. Meijer, D.S. Meyer, S. Monro, L. Munro, E.D.H. Olsen, M. Reddy, J. Reger, D. Richardson, C. Scholl, S. Tijsterman, H-A. Van der Heijden, P. Wood, L. XieTrade Review‘This new Handbook edited by Hein-Anton van der Heijden systematically presents the literature on social movements and citizenship. It provides a valuable resource for scholars working in both fields, and is useful for faculty and students alike. Most importantly, by bringing together key authors from both fields, this edited volume encourages research linking the two fields, and thus it could provide the basis for a new research agenda that bridges the focus on the microlevel in citizenship research with the meso- or macrolevel foci typical of the social movement literature. The book covers a breadth of research. . . familiar with one or both fields. This volume takes the contributions of citizenship research and applies them to the study of social movements, thereby moving scholarship beyond divisive distinctions between institutional and non-institutional participation.’ -- Swen Hutter and Jasmine Lorenzini, Mobilization‘Enhanced with the inclusion of a fifty-one page Index, the Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements is an essential addition to academic library Political Science reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.’ -- Midwest Book Review‘Social movement and citizenship studies have distinct trajectories of development, but Van der Heijden clearly argues that the fields share much ground in common. What's more, he sucessfully accomplishes the goal stated in the volume's introduction: to bridge or narrow the gap between the two literatures "in order to lay the foundations for a social science research program that would do more justice to social and political reality"’ -- J.J. Reed, Choice‘This outstanding Handbook establishes the relationship between political citizenship and social movements as an area of study. As an in-depth and well-conceived source for beginners, experienced scholars and students alike, it provides theoretically rich, methodologically diverse, and empirically wide-ranging chapters on political struggles over citizenship. Moreover, the bridging between sociological and political theories of movements and citizenship reveals both in a different light.’ -- Engin Isin, The Open University‘Overall, this rich Handbook provides a useful theorisation of many emerging political phenomena.’ -- Political StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Linking Political Citizenship and Social Movements Hein-Anton van der Heijden PART I: POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP: APPROACHES AND FORMS 2. Political Citizenship: Mapping the Terrain Russell J. Dalton 3. Republican Citizenship James Bohman 4. Citizenship, Gender and Sexuality Surya Monro and Diane Richardson 5. Multicultural Citizenship Narzanin Massoumi and Nasar Meer 6. Ecological Citizenship Sherilyn MacGregor 7. Urban Citizenship Patricia Burke Wood 8. European Citizenship Espen D.H. Olsen 9. Global and Cosmopolitan Citizenship Sebastiaan Tijsterman PART II: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: CURRENT APPROACHES AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 10. Resource Mobilization and Social and Political Movements Bob Edwards and Melinda Kane 11. The New Social Movement Approach Christian Scholl 12. Citizenship, Political Opportunities and Social Movements David S. Meyer and Erin Evans 13. Poststructuralism, Social Movements and Citizen Politics Steven Griggs and David Howarth 14. Social Movements and Emotions Helena Flam 15. The Transnationalization of Social Movements Movindri Reddy 16. Social Movements and the ICT-Revolution Jennifer Earl, Jayson Hunt and R. Kelly Garrett PART III: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 17. The Environmental Movement Hein-Anton van der Heijden 18. The Women’s Movement Jo Reger 19. The International Human Rights Movement Ann Marie Clark and Paul Danyi 20. Urban Social Movements Pierre Hamel 21. The Tea Party Movement Edward Ashbee 22. The Animal Rights Movement Lyle Munro PART IV: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 23. Social Movements and Political Citizenship in China Lei Xie 24. Social Movements in India Dip Kapoor 25. Social Movements and Political Citizenship in Africa Patrick Bond 26. Political Citizenship and Social Movements in the Arab World Roel Meijer Index

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Book SynopsisThe Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people's movement for gays, socialist by virtue of its demand for social change, and revolutionary in recognizing the rights of other oppressed minorities to determine the fight for their own demands. All history is personal. The author of this political memoir is the first participant of the Front to write a history of the lesbians and gay men who joined Gay Liberation and through a process of Coming Out and radicalization initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of this country.

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Book SynopsisStephen Castles provides a deeper understanding of recent 'migration crises' in this fascinating and highly topical work. The book links theory and methodology to real-world migration experiences, with a truly global perspective and in-depth analysis of the links between economics, migration and asylum and refugee issues. Key features surrounding this complex and often controversial field are examined through five thematic sections: the sociological theories and methodologies most appropriate for understanding the migratory process, including the changing nature of international migration in an era of globalization analysis of contemporary types of migration and the cruciality of understanding migration as a dynamic social process - inability to do so may lead to policy failure and unintended consequences the relationship between migration and development asylum and refugees the effects of international migration on citizenship and identity, providing a critical perspective on the emergence of transnationalism. Migration, Citizenship and Identity will appeal to graduate students, senior undergraduates and lecturers in international migration, globalization, sociology, political science, demography and geography. Government officials, civil society activists, social workers, medical personnel, lawyers and other professional groups whose work is concerned with migrants and refugees will also find much to engage them.

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Book SynopsisCan participatory governance really improve the quality of democracy? Concentrating on democracy beyond governmental structures, this Handbook argues that it is a political task to engage individuals at all levels of governance. The Handbook on Participatory Governance reveals that transforming governance arrangements does in fact enhance democracy and that the democratic quality of participatory governance is crucial. The contributors reflect on the notion of democracy and participatory governance and how they relate to each other. Case studies are presented from regional, national and international levels, to identify how governance can be turned into a participatory form. With chapters reviewing participatory governance?s role alongside power, science and employment relations, innovative ideas for future progress in participatory governance are presented.Academics and postgraduate students with an interest in governance and public policy will find this Handbook a useful guide for further and future research. Practitioners interested in improving citizen participation will also benefit from the insight into increasing participation at every level of governance.Contributors include: R. Atkinson, B. Denters, F. Fischer, B. Geißel, M. Haus, H. Heinelt, P. Heß, P.-J. Klok, N. Kortendiek, K.-O. Lindgren, S. McKay, T. Persson, T. Pogrebinschi, T. Saretzki, R. Schmalz-Bruns, W. Schroeder, S.J. Silvia, J. Steffek, J. Steiner, P. Stolzenberg, B. Wampler, M.E. Warren, K. ZimmermannisTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Hubert Heinelt 2. The Normativity of Participatory Governance Rainer Schmalz-Bruns 3. The Foundation of Deliberative Democracy and Participatory Governance Jürg Steiner 4. Governance and Power Michael Haus 5. Democratizing Participatory Governance through Countervailing Power Spencer McKay and Mark E. Warren 6. Can Participatory Governance Improve the Quality of Democracy? A Response from Latin America Thamy Pogrebinschi 7. Structuring Participatory Governance through Particular ‘Rules in Use’: Lessons from the Empirical Application of Elinor Ostrom’s IAD Framework Pieter-Jan Klok and Bas Denters 8. Participatory Governance and Collaborative Expertise Frank Fischer 9. Participatory Governance of Science Thomas Saretzki 10. Participatory Governance in Employment Relations Stephen J. Silvia and Wolfgang Schroeder 11. Participatory Governance in International Organizations Jens Steffek and Nele Kortendiek 12. Participatory Governance in the European Union Karl-Oskar Lindgren and Thomas Persson 13. Determinants of Successful Participatory Governance: the Case of Local Agenda 21 Brigitte Geißel and Pamela Heß 14. Area-based Initiatives – a Facilitator for Participatory Governance? Rob Atkinson and Karsten Zimmermann 15. Participatory Budgeting Philipp Stolzenberg and Brian Wampler index

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Book SynopsisThis theoretically ambitious work combines analytical, institutional and critical approaches in order to provide an in-depth, panoramic and contextual account of European Union citizenship law and policy. Offering a refreshing perspective on the origins, evolution and trajectory of EU citizenship law, Dora Kostakopoulou explores recent developments, controversies and challenges, including Brexit, and fills a lacuna in the existing literature. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this insightful book combines legal studies with normative political theory, political science, sociology and critical migration studies in order to arm readers with the tools required to appreciate and understand the constructive potential and transformative effects of this fascinating and unique institution. Provocative and forward-thinking, it provides glimpses of an alternative future for EU citizenship. Students and scholars working in European law and policy, citizenship, migration and internal market law will find this book to be an engaging and timely read. Its more practical elements will also appeal to government officials, lobbyists and practitioners involved in law and policy-making, as well as to individuals working on transnational processes and globalisation.Trade Review‘This book captures both the evolution of EU citizenship since its establishment and the author's publication trajectory on citizenship. . . it provides a highly original account of EU citizenship law and policy. It shows how institutional actors and the practice of citizenship contribute to transformative change. It addresses possible future developments, while remaining faithful to the principled take on the values, principles and practices that enhance human life and (should) underlie EU citizenship as an institution. In sum, a thought-provoking book.’ -- Annette Schrauwen, European Journal of Migration and Law‘This is a vital book for our time of a new wave of nationalism.’ -- Marta Moskal, Ethnic and Racial StudieTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. European Union Citizenship: Writing the Future 2. European Union Citizenship Rights and Duties: Civil, Political and Social 3. When EU Citizens Become Foreigners 4. The External Face of EU Citizenship: Diplomatic and Consular Protection 5. EU Citizenship and Fundamental Rights 6. Brexit and EU Citizenship 7. Innovations in European Union Citizenship Law: Who Should be a Citizen of the Union Conclusion The Art of Creative Institutional Thinking: Defending the Experience of Relating and Eurozens’ Rights Index

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Book SynopsisSince 1992 the EU has incorporated a concept previously exclusive to states: citizenship. In embracing supranational citizenship the EU entered terra incognita, creating a concept resembling, but essentially different to traditional citizenship. This book provides an in-depth historical, political and constitutional analysis of the first 25 years of EU citizenship, and considers how it could develop over the next 25 years.Bringing together scholars from the fields of law, political science and history, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to EU citizenship. It examines the history and development of EU citizenship, the roles of institutional and political actors, and the dynamics which it created in the post-Maastricht accession process, providing readers with a unique multifaceted examination of the topic. Exploring new insights into the nature and importance of EU citizenship, this book shows that after a quarter of a century EU citizenship has lost none of it's game-changing potential, and remains one of the most important features of EU law.Students of European law and politics and international relations will find this concise book an invaluable tool, with interesting and original insights into the present status of a key aspect of EU law. Its multidisciplinary approach will also help professionals working in fields relating to the subject.Contributors include: A.G. Harryvan, G. Hoogers, J. Langer, S. Neuman Stanivukovic, T. Nowak, R. Procee, J. van der Harst, J.W. van Rossem, G. Voerman, N. ZeegersTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. European Citizenship in Perspective: History, Politics and Law An Introduction Gerhard Hoogers 2. Political Citizenship in the European Union: What it means, how it came about and what challenges lie ahead Jan Willem van Rossem 3. From Free Cross-border Movement to Backing Legitimacy: European citizenship in a political-historical perspective, 1970-2000 Anjo G. Harryvan and Jan van der Harst 4. The Rights of EU Citizens: A legal-historical analysis Tobias Nowak 5. EU Citizenship from the Cross-border Link to the Genuine Enjoyment Test: Understanding the ‘stone-by-stone’ approach of the Court of Justice Jurian Langer 6. Political Participation of European Citizens and the Development of a European Polity: Input of European and Dutch parties in European Parliament election programmes, 1979-2014 Richard Procee and Gerrit Voerman 7. The European Citizens’ Initiative: How to establish the influence it gives citizens over the European Union’s agenda? Nicolle Zeegers 8. Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Context of EU Accession Senka Neuman Stanivukovic Index

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Book SynopsisThrough their part in some huge controversies, conspiracy theorists are being branded the Number One Enemies of our times – the new heretics. They are seen to threaten the very fabric of modern society, spreading doubts and fears that result in Washington Capitol invasions, transmission mast burnings or the spread of anti-vaxx material. Yet the theorists prefer to call themselves "truth seekers" and see the mainstream establishment as the real disruptor, treating its increasingly harsh censorship as direct validation of their views. In truth, the new heretics, whose numbers are swelling, are symptoms of a wider polarization splitting apart much of the world in ideological divisions. Many have lost trust in politicians and the media, while nuanced debate is crushed and information overload and manipulation breeds uncertainty, civil unrest and mental health issues. How does the age old strategy of divide-and-rule play out in such an environment? Using his extensive experience of negotiating disputes between cynics and truth seekers, Andy Thomas explores the proliferation of conspiracy thinking, peeling back unhelpful layers of biased thinking on all sides to find more insightful ways to bridge the polarised divides and create a better way forward. The New Heretics scrutinises the future of freedom of expression in a censorious world which unwisely seeks to close down discussion of everything alternative, expanding into a truly thought-provoking and expansive treatise on our relationship to truth, technology, politics and the paranormal – and the future of humanity itself.Trade Review"I cannot recommend this new work highly enough; in fact it’s a ray of light and should be required reading in all secondary schools … Buy it, read it and learn.” - Brian Allan, Phenomena magazine"The New Heretics will become the go-to book for a new way of thinking about the world and our progress in it.” - Marcus Allen, UK publisher of Nexus magazine"Thomas serves up a banquet of ideas on the profound impact of digitalisation, the death of debate, censorship and the nature of scientific inquiry, asking questions that leave you stumped.” - Saffron Swire, Reaction“The New Heretics opens broad conversations and looks beyond unhelpful layers of bias to try to bridge the divides between humans and find more insightful ways for us to communicate with each other and move forward together." - Cygnus Review"Essential reading in our dangerously compromised times, The New Heretics is exceptionally well-informed and has that hard-to-put-down quality that confirms it as a must-read for anyone interested in the bewildering state of Western culture and society today. It’s level-headed, wise and deeply insightful." - Medium.com review

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Book Synopsis'This work has come at an important time in the wake of the so-called Arab spring when the fluctuating patterns of state-citizen relations were rethought with varying success. Looking at citizenship in the region from multi-disciplinary and content related perspectives, this collection of essays discusses the variety of ways in which citizenship operates - and is thought about - in the contemporary Middle East and beyond. In looking at the contested dimensions of citizenship, this book is an important and timely work for anyone interested in the processes by which what it means to be a citizen is made and remade.'- Rachel M. Scott, Virginia Tech, USThe Middle East is currently undergoing its most dramatic transition since World War I. The political order, both within individual countries and on the regional level, has been in turmoil ever since the Arab Uprisings in 2011. Analysts are struggling to identify conceptual frameworks that capture the complex nature of the developments that we observe.The Middle East in Transition demonstrates how citizenship understood as a social contract between citizens and the state is a key factor in current political crises in the region. The book analyzes three distinct dimensions of citizenship in the Middle East: the development of citizenship in specific countries, including Morocco, Israel Turkey and Iraq; Islam and the writings of twentieth-century Islamic thinkers; and the international dimension of citizenship, particularly regarding EU policies towards the region and the rights of Syrian refugees.This timely book provides a comprehensive insight into the current implications of the changing relationships between the citizen and the state in the Middle East. Discussing the topic with clarity and detail, it will be essential reading not only for researchers but also for policy makers and government officials. Contributors include: S. Ahmadou, Z. Alsabeehg, Z. Babar, S.I. Bergh, N.A. Butenschøn, L.C. Frost, B. Ince, M. Kanie, R. Meijer, V.M. Moghadam, Z. Pall, S. Saeidi, R.H. Santini, P. Seeberg, M.M. ShteiwiTrade Review'Citizenship is the vital missing link between rulers and ruled in the Middle East. Precisely because it has been inadequately developed in the region's constitutions, laws and practices, it has been afforded insufficient scholarly attention. This volume brilliantly addresses that deficiency by contextualizing Middle Eastern citizenship theoretically, historically, in contemporary socio-political and religious settings across the region, and as regards the Middle East's relationships with external actors. One of its general findings is that never having been adequately established, citizenship in the Middle East has come under renewed threat in the wake of the Arab uprisings of 2011. This impressive work merits wide readership.' --Robert Springborg, the Italian Institute of International Affairs, Italy'This timely book makes a strong case for how our analyses of such critical issues as political Islam, the impact of neoliberalism, and authoritarian resilience may be significantly enhanced through a careful focus on the changing definitions, roles and practices of citizenship in the Middle East. Whether wrested as the result of struggles from below or decreed from above, the forms of inclusion and exclusion explored in this welcome addition to the literature will continue to define critical aspects of the region's socio-economic and political trajectories for the foreseeable future.' --Laurie A. Brand, University of Southern California, US'This collection of chapters on changes in the post-Arab Spring is not just another book on the transformative forces unleashed since 2011. Butenschon and Meijer need to be commended for bringing together convincing arguments about the centrality of citizenship in understanding these changes, and the concerns and the struggles of the people in the Middle East. This is a powerful, analytically groundbreaking, and vast collection of works in a constantly evolving field of study.' --James N. Sater, American University of Sharjah, UAETable of ContentsContents: Part I Local Contested citizenship 1. Israeli Ethnocracy and the Israel-Palestine Citizenship Complex Nils A. Butenschøn 2. Remapping Citizenship in Turkey: Law, Identity, and Civic Virtue, 1980-2014 Basak Ince 3. Bringing about the Non-Citizen in Iraq: A Genealogical Approach Mariwan Kanie 4. Claiming Spaces for Acts of Citizenship: Recent Experiences of Activists in Morocco Sylvia I. Bergh and Salima Ahmadou 5. Enduring “Contested” Citizenship in the Gulf Cooperation Council Zahra Babar 6. Bahrain’s Citizenship Policy of Inclusion and Exclusion Zeineb Alsabeehg 7. Citizenship in the 2014 Egyptian Constitution Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron Part II Islam and the issue of citizenship 8. The Political, Politics, and Political Citizenship in Modern Islam Roel Meijer 9. Can the Umma Replace the Nation? Salafism and Deterritorialized Citizenship in Lebanon and Kuwait Zoltan Pall 10. Iran’s Hizbollah and Citizenship Politics: The Surprises of Religious Legislation in a Hybrid Regime Shirin Saeidi PART III International dimensions of citizenship rights 11. The EU and Its Southern Neighbors: A Fuzzy Model of Citizenship Promotion? Ruth Hanau Santini 12. Citizenship and Migration Diplomacy: Turkey and the EU Peter Seeberg 13. Syrian Refugees and Citizenship Lillian C. Frost and Musa M. Shteiw 14. After the Arab Spring: Towards Women’s Economic Citizenship Valentine M. Moghadam Index

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Book SynopsisEuropean Union citizenship is increasingly relevant in the context of both the refugee crisis and Brexit, yet the issue of citizenship is neither new nor unique to the EU. Using historical, political and sociological perspectives, the authors explore varied experiences of combining multiple identities into a single sense of citizenship.Cases are taken from Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey to assess the various experiences of communities being incorporated into one entity. The studies show that the EU has a comparatively large degree of diversity and complexity, with levels of integration achieved in a relatively short timeframe. Advisory models based on Canada and Switzerland allow for the EU integration processes to continue while protecting diversity and upholding common institutions. Citizenship in Segmented Societies will appeal to academics and students in the field of European and federalist studies with a focus on multiculturalism and linguistic pluralism, minority rights, and citizenship issues. It will also be of interest to those with a particular interest in historical and comparative analysis of the EU.Contributors include: A.C. Bianculli, F. Cheneval, Ç. Erdogan, M. Ferrín, V. Hlousek, J. Jordana, S. Lopez, M. Sanjaume-Calvet, G. Tavits, H. Yilmaz, C.I. Velasco RicoTrade Review'How to build supranational citizenship while accommodating diversity and protecting existing communities is a key challenge to European integration. Case by case, this highly informative collection shows that that the EU is not alone - and that there is a huge variety of models to draw from (or to avoid).' --Frank Schimmelfennig, ETH Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Francis Cheneval and Mónica Ferrín 1. Switzerland as a Model for the EU Francis Cheneval and Mónica Ferrín 2. The EU and the Canadian mirror: citizenship, multinationalism, and multiculturalism Clara Isabel Velasco Rico and Marc Sanjaume-Calvet 3. Linguistic Policies and Citizens’ Claims in a Multinational State: The Case of Spain Andrea C. Bianculli, Jacint Jordana and Siresa Lopez 4. The Czech Republic: Minority Rights since the Days of the Habsburg Empire Vít Hloušek 5. Minority Policy and Social Rights: The Case of Estonia Gaabriel Tavits 6. Turkey: Minorities and Citizenship Claims Hakan Yılmaz, section 6.1 with the assistance of Çağdan Erdoğan 7. Accommodating Rivalling Claims to Citizenship in Federations: Lessons for the EU Marc Sanjaume-Calvet 8. Nation-Building Process versus Community Claims: Taking Stock of Analysed Examples of Unitary States Vít Hloušek 9. Conclusion Francis Cheneval and Mónica Ferrín Index

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Book SynopsisThe Maastricht Treaty of 1992 introduced the right to free movement for EU citizens. Despite this, in practice there are still substantial barriers to securing these freedoms. EU Citizenship and Social Rights discusses and analyses those legal and practical barriers preventing inter-European migrants from integrating into new host countries. Providing analysis of the development of EU social policy, this book highlights the disparate roles of the EU as a whole and of Member States in determining social rights and outcomes. In particular the issues of social assistance, housing benefits, study grants and health care are examined. In addition, the authors discuss the discrepancy between the social rights granted to workers and social rights granted to non-worker migrants, as well as the barriers facing minority groups like the Roma, which highlight issues in the development of EU social policy for migrants. This book will be a vital resource for students of European law as well as public and social policy. EU policy makers will also benefit from reading this, with its practical and theoretical suggestions for ways in which social policies may be amended to the benefit of EU citizens.Contributors include:; N. Absenger, F. Blank, P. Brown, C. Bruzelius, H. Dean, K. Hyltén-Cavallius, C. Jacqueson, P. Martin, F. Pennings, P. Phoa, L. Scullion, M. Seeleib-Kaiser, S. Stendahl, O. Swedrup, A.M. Swiatkowski, M. WujczykTable of ContentsContents: Series Preface Preface 1. Intra-EU Migration and Social Rights: An Introduction Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Frans Pennings PART I Applicable supranational legal standards 2. The European Social Charter as a Basis for Defining Social Rights for EU Citizens Andrzej Marian Świątkowski and Marcin Wujczyk 3. EU social citizenship: Between individual rights and national concerns Catherine Jacqueson PART II Freedom of Movement, EU Citizenship and Social Rights: Comparative Perspectives 4. (Dis)united in diversity? Social policy and social rights in the EU Cecilia Bruzelius, Catherine Jacqueson and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 5 Legal Barriers to Access of EU Citizens to Social Rights Frans Pennings 6. Social Human Rights as a Legal Strategy to Enhance EU Citizenship Sara Stendahl and Otto Swedrup PART III EU Citizenship and Social Rights: Various Dimensions 7. The Need of Residence Registration for Enjoyment of EU Citizenship in Sweden Katarina Hyltén-Cavallius 8. Social rights, labour market policies and the freedom of movement: contradictions within the European project? Nadine Absenger and Florian Blank 9. Roma Persons and EU Citizenship Philip Martin, Lisa Scullion and Philip Brown 10. EU Citizens’ Access to Social Benefits: Reality or Fiction? Outlining a Law and Literature Approach to EU citizenship Pauline Phoa 11. The Construction of Social Rights Hartley Dean PART IV Conclusion 12. Conclusion Martin Seeleib-Kaiser and Frans Pennings Index

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Book SynopsisHighly topical and with an interdisciplinary focus, this book explores the recent political and social developments in EU citizenship. Bringing political scientists, sociologists and law scholars together, this book analyses the implications of identity categorisation regarding gender and generations in the EU and what this means for the realisation of citizens?' rights, particularly of women, young adults and migrant care workers throughout the EU. Established researchers explore the stories of social and civil rights in the EU, covering family mobility and migration issues, the precarious positions of female migrant workers across member states and the EU?s promotion of diverse family rights. Moreover, the book focuses on the prominent issues facing the new generation of young adults: particularly social mobility, civil rights and political parties?' differing views on gender and family issues. With insight into national and regional perspectives on these significant topics, the authors argue that the European Parliament is currently striving for a new consensus to unite member states and dissipate current divisions. An important read for academics and students from across the social sciences, specifically public and social policy, gender studies and European studies, interested in the future direction of the EU surrounding gender and generational division.Contributors include: G.M. Dotti Sani, J. Gal, T. Knijn, A. Krizsan, D. Lepianka, J. Long, M. Luppi, M. Naldini, R. Oomkens, L. Rolandsen Agustin, A. Santero, B. Siim, J. Sipic, D. Sirinic, C. Solera, L.J. van den Braken, M.A. YerkesTrade Review‘Knijn and Naldini’s edited collection is a welcome addition to the vast area of citizenship studies that highlight many challenges to active EU citizenship participation and individual EU citizenship rights. It aims to highlight discrepancy within EU citizenship along the lines of gender, age and mobility. As such, the book situates itself within the work on gendered citizenship in welfare States that interrogates care policies as an aspect of gendered social rights.’ -- Jule Mulder, Common Market Law Review (CML)Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. Introduction: EU citizenship, a matter of gender, generations and family dependency Trudie Knijn and Manuela Naldini PART I TENSION BETWEEN GENDER AND FAMILY VALUES AND EU POLITICAL DISCOURSES 2. Rights for women, migrants and minorities: consensus and silences in the European Parliament Anita Nissen and Lise Rolandsen Agustín 3. Gender equality and family in European populist radical-right agendas: European parliamentary debates 2014 Andrea Krizsán and Birte Siim 4. National attitudes as a barrier to European citizenship rights? The case of parenthood and partnership rights for individuals in diverse family forms Giulia M. Dotti Sani, Trudie Knijn, Manuela Naldini, Cristina Solera and Mara A. Yerkes PART II CROSS-NATIONAL BALANCING OF GENDER AND GENERATIONAL RIGHTS 5. The role of reproductive rights and family policies in defining parenthood Joëlle Long, Manuela Naldini and Arianna Santero 6. Differently unequal: On migrants’ stratified access to family reunification and family entitlements in the Netherlands, Israel and Italy Dana Halevy, Dorota Lepianka and Arianna Santero 7. Precarious migrant care workers in Italy, Israel and the UK Matteo Luppi, Rosanne Oomkens and John Gal PART III MOBILE AND ACTIVE YOUTH 8. Young adults on the move: tensions between EU and national-level policies Trudie Knijn and Mara A. Yerkes 9. Why do young Europeans stay at home? Including ‘stay-stay away’ factors in migration research Leydi Johana van den Braken, Dorota Lepianka and Trudie Knijn 10. Are there any ties left? Party characteristics and age-based differences in party-voter linkages Daniela Širinić and Josip Šipić Index

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Book SynopsisThe process of European integration has had a marked influence on the nature and meaning of citizenship in national and post-national contexts as well as on the definition and exercise of civil rights across Member States. This original edited collection brings together insights from EU law, human rights and comparative constitutional law to address this underexplored nexus.Split into two distinct thematic parts, it first evaluates relevant frameworks of civil rights protection, with special attention on enforcement mechanisms and the role of civil society organisations. Next, it engages extensively with a series of individual rights connected to EU citizenship. Comprising detailed studies on access to nationality, the right to free movement, non-discrimination, family life, data protection and the freedom of expression, this book maps the expanding role of European law in the national sphere. It identifies a number of challenges to core civil rights that the current supranational framework is at pains to address. The contributors suggest and develop several new ideas on how to take the EU integration project forward. Civil Rights and EU Citizenship provides an innovative perspective on both the conceptual dimensions and the actual realities of rights-based citizenship which will be of interest to legal scholars, practitioners and policy-makers alike.Contributors include: S. Adamo, P.J. Blanco, S. de Vries, H. de Waele, T. Dudek, M.-P. Granger, K. Irion, Á.E. Menéndez, J. Morijn, P. Phoa, O. Salat, H. van Eijken, J.G. VegaTrade Review'Through its conceptually innovative focus on EU citizenship and civil rights, this important contribution reframes and refreshes some enduring questions around the protection of rights equal treatment as well as bringing significant new themes, notably the role of civil society, more to the centre of current debates. The collection's overarching exploration of a ''European civil rights mo(ve)ment'' has never seemed more necessary.' --Niamh Nic Shuibhne, The University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 EU citizenship and civil rights: an underexplored nexus Henri de Waele and Marie-Pierre Granger PART I FRAMEWORKS 2. Post-Lisbon civil rights protection by the EU’s political institutions John Morijn 3. Securing private actors’ respect for civil rights within the EU: actual and potential horizontal effects of instruments Sybe de Vries 4. The role of civil society organisations Javier A. González Vega PART II RIGHTS 5. Nationality and EU citizenship: strong tether or slipping anchor? Hanneke van Eijken and Pauline Phoa 6. EU citizenship and EU anti-discrimination law: barriers to the enjoyment of the right to non-discrimination resulting from the legal anti-discrimination framework Tomasz Dudek 7. The civil right to free movement: the beating heart of European Union citizenship? Marie-Pierre Granger 8. The right to family life and obstacles arising from intra-European mobility Pilar Jiménez Blanco and Ángel Espiniella Menéndez 9. Pursuing Union citizenship rights: access to justice Silvia Adamo 10. Citizen journalism: potentials and pitfalls for European Union citizenship Orsolya Salát 11. The right to protection of personal data: the new posterchild of European Union citizenship? Marie-Pierre Granger and Kristina Irion 12. Epilogue: towards a European civil rights mo(ve)ment? Marie-Pierre Granger and Henri de Waele Index

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Book SynopsisEver since its inception, one of the essential tasks of the EU has been to establish the internal market. Despite the impressive body of case law and legislation regarding the internal market, legal and factual barriers still exist for citizens seeking to exercise their full rights under EU law. This book analyses these barriers and proposes ways in which they may be overcome.Next to analysing the key barriers to exercising economic rights more generally, this book focuses on three areas which represent the applications of the four basic freedoms: consumer rights, the rights of professionals in gaining access to the market, and intellectual property rights in the Digital Single Market. With chapters from leading researchers, the main pathways towards the reduction and removal of these barriers are considered. Taking into account important factors including the global financial crisis, as well as practical barriers, such as multilingualism, the solutions provided in this book present a pathway to enhance cross-border realization of European citizens? access to their economic rights, as well as increasing in the cultural richness of the EU.EU Citizens? Economic Rights in Action is an important book, which will be an essential resource for students of EU citizenship and economics, as well as for EU policymakers and practitioners interested in the field.Table of ContentsContent: Foreword by Catherine Barnard Series Preface PART I EU CITIZENS’ ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND BARRIERS TO THEIR EXERCISE: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW 1. General reflections on current threats and challenges to, and opportunities for, the exercise of economic rights by EU citizens Sybe de Vries 2. European ‘equalization’ rules and the de facto differentiation in Member States’ revenues as a barrier to EU citizens’ freedoms Flavio Guella PART II THE LEGAL-FACTUAL DICHOTOMY OF BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC FREEDOMS BASED ON THREE CROSS-NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 3. Union citizens and the recognition of professional qualifications: where do we go from here? Silvia Adamo and Tom Binder 4. Enhancing the protection of digital consumer rights in the European Union: the EU Commission’s response to geoblocking and geofiltering Anne-Marie Van den Bossche and María Teresa Solís Santos 5. Intellectual property rights and barriers to EU citizens: copyright in the light of the Digital Single Market Paolo Guarda PART III HINDRANCES RESULTING FROM THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN THE EURO ZONE 6. From economic crisis to identity crisis: the spoliation of EU and national citizenships Vassilis Hatzopoulos 7. The charter in times of crisis: the empowerment of economic rights Maribel González Pascual 8. Financial crisis and consumers: breaking down barriers to build up new ones? Raúl Ignacio Rodríguez Magdaleno, Irma Martínez García and Silvia Gómez Ansón PART IV HINDRANCES RESULTING FROM PLURILINGUALISM 9. EU legal language and economic rights interpretation in the Member States Elena Ioriatti 10. Economic Implications of Linguistic Pluralism within the European Union Margarita Argüelles Vélez and Carmen Benavides González 11. What comes first, language or work? Linguistic barriers for accessing the labour market Silvia Adamo 12. The French language system: between protection and obstacles Céline Lageot 13. EU multilingualism and rivalries of rights: from barriers to plurilingualism Elisabetta Pulice Index

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Book SynopsisTwenty-five years after the introduction of European citizenship, it seems as though the EU has overreached itself. In its current state the EU provokes much negative political reaction among its citizens. Conversely, interest in European issues has increased during the crisis, pro-European social movements have emerged and new debates on reforms of the Union’s architecture are flaring up. Through updated and integrated multidisciplinary research this book reconsiders the contradictions and constraints, as well as the promises and prospects, for the future of EU citizenship.With chapters from leading researchers in the field, Reconsidering EU Citizenship is an innovative contribution to the lively debate on European and transnational citizenship. Bringing together policy research and reflections from political theory, this book offers an up-to-date critique of the current state of EU citizenship as well as new insights for its future.As citizenship rights issues become more prominent on the EU policy-making agenda, Reconsidering EU Citizenship will be an invaluable resource to students of EU policy as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the field.Contributors include: F. Cheneval, H. Dean, O. Eberl, M. Ferrin, V. Hlousek, M. Hoogenboom, J. Komárek, V. Koska, M. Prak, S. Seubert, C. Strünck, P. van Parijs, F. Van WaardenTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Reconsidering European Citizenship Sandra Seubert and Oliver Eberl PART I: Models and Constructions of EU citizenship 1. EU citizenship and the puzzle of a European Political Union Sandra Seubert 2. The historical origins of local-national citizenship combinations in Western Europe and the implications for EU citizenship Marcel Hoogenboom and Maarten Prak 3. EU citizens’ duties: Preventing barriers to the exercise of citizens’ rights Jan Komárek PART II: Contradictions and Constraints of EU citizenship 4. Market or polis? Sources of different rights and conflicting social logics in the dynamics of European integration Frans van Waarden 5. EU citizenship and ‘work’: Tensions between formal and substantive equality Hartley Dean 6. A ‘Rights Revolution’ in Europe? The ambiguous relation between rights and citizenship Christoph Strünck 7. Shifting borders and contested identities: The quest for republican EU citizenship and polity Vít Hloušek and Viktor Koska PART III: Prospects for EU Citizenship 8. EU citizenship: Integrating multi-layered identities? Francis Cheneval and Mónica Ferrín 9. EU citizenship and prospects for cosmopolitanism Sandra Seubert 10. Transnational European civic solidarity Oliver Eberl 11. Justifying Europe Phillippe van Parijs Conclusion: From Protection to Empowerment Sandra Seubert Index

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Book SynopsisCitizenship is an ever-evolving and expanding concept. European citizenship is all the more so. This book considers the role that the institutional design of the European Union plays in extending the rights of EU citizens.With chapters from leading researchers in the field, Democratic Empowerment in the European Union outlines the core themes relating to democratic empowerment in the EU. It examines the channels that are being made available by EU policymakers to help increase democratic participation, as well as the hindrances to, and the problems associated with, democratic empowerment. With its groundbreaking account of the ways in which EU citizens are hampered in exercising their democratic citizenship, and proposals for how they might be further empowered to do so, this book is an important addition to the literature on the subject, and offers an excellent introduction to this crucial issue.Democratic Empowerment in the European Union will be essential reading for students of politics and both social and public policy with interests in democracy and citizenship, as well as European policymakers seeking to understand and encourage democratic engagement.Contributors include: W. Bakker, T. Binder, R.I. Csehi, F. Cheneval, K. Dinur, O. Eberl, M. Ferrín, R. Fransen, D. Gaus, A. Gerbrandy, H. Haber, P. Kaniok, V. Koska, N. Kosti, D. Levi-Faur, S. Seubert, C. Struenck, U. Puetter, F. van Waarden, R. ZwiekyTrade Review‘This book will appeal to all those that have an interest in questions about how EU citizenship is developing to enable citizens to influence policymaking.’ -- James Organ, Common Market Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgement 1. Democratic Empowerment in the EU: An Introduction David Levi-Faur, Nir Kosti and Frans Van Waarden 2. Involvement of national parliaments in the political system of the European Union: a way for democratic empowerment? Petr Kaniok 3. Political inequality and democratic empowerment in the European Union: The Role of the European Parliament Sandra Seubert, Oliver Eberl and Daniel Gaus 4. The European Citizens Initiative from Comparative Perspective Fernando Mendez, Roman Zwicky and Daniel Kübler 5. The European Ombudsman Marco Inglese and Tom Binder 6. Direct democracy in the European Union: An Option for Democratic Empowerment? Francis Cheneval and Mónica Ferrín 7. Education for a Civic Culture Wieger Bakker, Marlot van der Kolk and Viktor Koska 8. Competition Law and the EU Democratic Deficit Anna Gerbrandy and Rutger Fransen 9. Regulation by litigation as a form of Empowerment Christoph Struenck 10. How Financial Market Constraints and Technocratic Decision-making Impact on European Political Citizenship and Democracy? Robert Csehi and Uwe Puetter 11. The Financialization of EU Citizenship: An Alternative to Democratic Empowerment Hanan Haber and David Levi-Faur 12. Democratic Empowerment and the Future of the EU: Some lessons from Brexit Keren Dinur, Nir Kosti, David Levi-Faur and Guy Mor Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept of supranational European citizenship has become one of the core concepts of the EU?s unique polity. It has, however, been one of the most difficult to actualise. This book examines the challenges of, and barriers to, exercising full citizenship rights for European citizens and considers how they might best be overcome.Drawing on cutting-edge research from interdisciplinary areas of study, this book examines the key issues surrounding EU citizenship. Reflecting on the diversity of European societies, it identifies, analyses and compares the many barriers that citizens face to fully exercising their rights. With chapters examining key issues from migration to democratic governance and social rights, Moving Beyond Barriers critically analyzes concepts of citizenship and the way that EU citizenship is politically, legally, economically and socially institutionalised, and elaborates alternatives to the current paths of realising EU citizenship.Citizenship issues feature prominently in the European policy-making agenda and the insights offered by this book will be of benefit to those with an interest in EU law, social and public policy and administration. Policy-makers and practitioners will also benefit from the reflections on citizenship and the practical guidance on how to move beyond current issues regarding EU citizenship.Contributors include: B. Anderson, W. Bakker, V. Baricevic, F. Cheneval, S. de Vries, D. di Micco, O. Eberl, M. Ferrin, M.-P. Granger, M. Hoogenboom, E. Ioriatti, T. Knijn, N. Kosti, D. Levi-Faur, M. Naldini, M. Prak, E. Pulice, M. Seeleib-Kaiser, S. Seubert, I. Shutes, M. van der Kolk, F. van Waarden, S. Walker, P. WallisTrade Review'The bEUcitizen project has made an important contribution to the field of EU citizenship studies. This wide ranging book provides a taste of the different insights that the project has offered us about the different types of barriers to exercising European citizenship. Put together by an interdisciplinary and international team, the book is full is insights and should be widely consulted by scholars in the field.' --Jo Shaw, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES ON BARRIERS 1. Introduction: Being a citizen in Europe Frans van Waarden and Sandra Seubert 2. Boundaries and promises: conflicts of democratic citizenship and its prospects in the European Union Sandra Seubert and Oliver Eberl 3. Rivalling and clashing citizenship rights within the EU: Problems with the multi-dimensionality of rights Sybe de Vries and Frans van Waarden 4. Troublesome transitions and historical continuities: Citizenship in Europe, 1600-2000 Maarten Prak, Marcel Hoogenboom and Patrick Wallis 5. Accommodating Rivalling Claims of Citizenship Mónica Ferrín and Francis Cheneval 6. The social embeddedness of citizenship: Rights, communities and polities Marcel Hoogenboom and Trudie Knijn PART II RIVALLING AND COMPLEMENTING RIGHTS: THE MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP 7. Economic rights of EU citizens within a multi-level context Sybe de Vries and Elisabetta Pulice 8. Citizenship, Europe and Social Rights Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 9. The protection of civil rights and liberties and the transformation of Union citizenship Marie-Pierre Granger 10. The Right to Participate: Empowerment via Participation in the EU Nir Kosti and David Levi-Faur PART III SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL BARRIERS TOWARDS EU CITIZENSHIP 11. Gender and Generational Interdependences and Divisions among EU citizens Trudie Knijn and Manuela Naldini 12. Insider/outsider: categorical rivalries? Bridget Anderson, Vedrana Baričević, Isabel Shutes and Sarah Walker 13. Linguistic diversity and barriers to EU citizens’ rights Elena Ioriatti and Domenico di Micco PART IV TOWARDS EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP 14. The Futures of EU Citizenship: Consequences of Different Scenarios Wieger Bakker and Marlot van der Kolk 15. Conclusions Trudie Knijn, Marcel Hoogenboom, Sandra Seubert and Sybe de Vries Index

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Book Synopsis''When the exception becomes the norm, the power of the sovereign is arbitrary, just as in pre-democratic times. But such arbitrariness is not random: it is applied primarily to certain categories of what used to be called ''the lower orders'' of society - the undocumented immigrants and the racially ''other,'' regardless of prior citizenship status. The very notion of citizen becomes vague and the status can be lost through a Kafkaesque process in which the state is unfathomable and often acts behind the scenes. This book edited by Devyani Prabhat brings together academics and lawyers working in the field of nationality and immigration laws, and shows how what has long been a feature of the labor market, namely, the precarious nature of jobs, has now become a feature of basic rights of ''belonging.'' Citizenship is precarious too. The chapters in this volume lead us straight to the question: What is the rule of law in such state of indistinction? Societies in decadence, like the current Western powers, entwine retrenchment with resentment, the exceptional with the normal, the in-group with the out-group. Devyani Prabhat and her colleagues analyze with great precision the alarming advance of legal imprecision, the interests that are vested in categorical confusion, and the erosion of basic rights in societies like the UK and the US - notably the right of persons to reside in peace and without fear.' - Juan Corradi, New York University, US This innovative book considers the evolution of the contemporary issues surrounding British citizenship, integrating the social aspects and ideas of identity and belonging alongside its legal elements. With contributions from renowned lawyers and academics, it challenges the view that there are immutable values and enduring rights associated with citizenship status. The book is organised into three thematic parts. Expert contributors trace the life cycle of the citizenship process, focusing on becoming a British citizen, retaining this citizenship with its associated rights, and the potential loss of citizenship owing to immigration controls. Through a critical examination of the concepts and content of British citizenship, the premise that citizenship retracts from full membership in society in times of turmoil is questioned. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, Citizenship in Times of Turmoil? will be a key resource for scholars and students working within the fields of migration, citizenship and immigration law. Including details of legal practice, it will also be of benefit to practitioners.Trade Review'Devyani Prabhat has assembled an excellent team of scholars across academic disciplines and legal specialisations. The chapters provide comprehensive and expert analysis on contemporary issues of British citizenship, ranging from the shifting categories of exclusion and inclusion in nationality law, naturalisation policy and integration tests to Brexit, ''the hostile environment'' and the Windrush scandal. The book is unique in combining the theory, practices and policies of British citizenship.' --Dora Kostakopoulou, Warwick University, UK'This work offers a state of the art treatment of the law and policy on citizenship in Britain, covering access to nationality and the scope of citizenship rights. With contributions by leading scholars and practitioners of citizenship and immigration law, it provides a comprehensive account of key questions, including discrimination in nationality law, deprivation of citizenship, and the implications of in-country checks of status.' --Bernard Ryan, University of Leicester, UK'This book addresses a most timely topic - British citizenship - from all possible perspectives: practice, theory and policy and from various academic disciplines. It provides for a very welcome contribution to discussions on every day politics and on knowledge on the legal position of many different categories of immigrants. In these times of turmoil citizenship can be a basis for security and rights and therefore it is essential to examine all its dimensions carefully. This book is an indispensable aid for knowing more about British citizenship.' --Frans Pennings, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Part I MAKING BRITISH CITIZENS 1. Discrimination in British Nationality law Alison Harvey 2. The Life in the UK Citizenship Test and the Urgent Need for Its Reform Thom Brooks 3. Naturalisation and becoming a citizen in the UK Bridget Byrne 4. Children’s Pathways to British Citizenship Solange Valdez-Symonds Part II HOLDING BRITISH CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CONTROLS 5. Citizenship, semi-citizenship and the hostile environment: the performativity of bordering practices Christopher Bertram 6. The Immigration Act 2014 and the Right to Rent David Smith Part III LOSING BRITISH CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION CONTROLS 7. The rise of modern banishment: deprivation and nullification of British citizenship Colin Yeo 8. A Constitutional Eyesore After Brexit: EU Citizenship and British Nationality Patricia Mindus 9. Remember when 'Windrush' was still just the name of a ship? Fiona Bawdon 10. The Blurred Lines of British Citizenship and Immigration Control: The Ordinary and the Exceptional Devyani Prabhat Index

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