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

• Autore: Reiter Bernd <1968->
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.601
• Soggetto topico: Autonomy; Citizenship
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The dialectics of citizenship
• ISBN: 1-62895-162-1; 1-60917-351-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788499003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II