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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788499003321

Autore

Reiter Bernd <1968->

Titolo

The dialectics of citizenship [[electronic resource] ] : exploring privilege, exclusion, and racialization / / Bernd Reiter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-62895-162-1

1-60917-351-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

323.601

Soggetti

Autonomy

Citizenship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The epistemology and methodology of exploratory social science research: crossing Popper with Marcuse -- Conceptualizing citizenship: disjunctive, dual, divided, entangled, or what? -- Classical citizenship: the political and the social -- Medieval European citizenship: Christian rights and Jewish duties -- France: liberalism unveiled -- The postcolonial within: Portugal, white, and European -- Brazil: experts in exclusion -- Colombia: when law and reality clash -- Conclusion: learning from exploratory research.

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial backers. What will it take to bring democracy back to its original promise of rule by the people? Bernd Reiter's timely analysis reaches back to ancient Greece and the Roman Republic in searc