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Book SynopsisThis volume explores some of the tensions and pressures of citizenship in Western liberal democracies. Citizenship has adopted many guises in the Western context, although historically citizenship is attached only to some variant of democracy. How democracy is configured is thus at the core of citizenship. Beginning in ancient Greece, citizenship is attached to the notion of a public sphere of deliberation, open only to a small number of males. Nonetheless, we take from these origins an understanding of citizenship that is attached to friendship, preservation of a distinct community, and adherence to law. These early conceptions of citizenship in the west have been dramatically altered in the modern context by the ascendancy of individual rights and equality, expanding the inclusiveness of definition of citizenship. The universality of rights claims has led to debate about the legitimacy of the nation state and questioning of borders. A further development in our understanding of citiz
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Aristotelian Citizenship for a Multicultural World Chapter 2 Challenges to a Deliberative Model of Citizenship Chapter 3 Secularism as a Common Good Chapter 4 Citizenship against the Nation Chapter 5 Multicultural Taxpayers and Canadian Citizenship: Between the End of History and the Class of Civilizations Chapter 6 Majoritarian Interculturalism and Multicultural Nationalism Chapter 7 Multiculturalism and National Identity in Canada and the United States after September 11th, 2001 Chapter 8 Civic Virtue and Cultural Pluralism from the Standpoint of The Other: Debating Multiculturalism in the Age of Security and Surveillance Chapter 9 The European Union as a Transnational Republic? Consociational, Multicultural, and Post-Territorial Dimensions Chapter 10 Striking a Balance? The Battle for Euskara in a Diversifying Basque Country
