Bryan S. Turner

Hannah Wolf

Jürgen Mackert

Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume presents and discusses acute contestations, within and beyond national borders and boundaries. Democracy’s crucial relationships, between state and citizenry as well as amongst citizens, are rearranged and re-ordered in various spheres and arenas, impacting on core democratic principles such as accountability, legitimacy, participation and trust. This volume addresses these refigurations by bringing together empirical analyses and conceptual considerations regarding the access to and exclusion from citizenship rights in the face of migration regulation and institutional transformation, and the role of violence in maintaining or undermining social order. With its critical reflection on the consequences and repercussions of such processes for citizens’ everyday lives and for the meaning of citizenship altogether, this book transgresses disciplinary boundaries and puts into dialogue the perspectives of political theory and sociology.

Volume 2: Contesting Citizenship

The Condition of Democracy

This volume Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion examines the many different and newly emerging ways in which citizenship refers to spatial, symbolic and social boundaries. Today, in the context of citizenship we face processes of inclusion and exclusion on national and supranational level but no less on the level of groups and individuals. The book addresses these different levels and discusses processes of inclusion and exclusion with regard to spatial, social and symbolic boundaries referring to such different problems as political participation, migration, or identity with regard to religion or the EU. This book will appeal to academics working in the field of political theory, political sociology and European studies.

Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion

The Transformation of Citizenship, Volume 2

Jochen Steinbicker

Robert King Merton (1910 – 2003) gilt heute längst als Klassiker der Soziologie. Er kann als der bedeutendste Soziologe der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts und als Wegbereiter einer modernen Soziologie bezeichnet werden, die das konstitutive Verhältnis von soziologischer Theorie und empirischer Forschung ins Zentrum des Interesses gerückt hat. Aufgrund seiner Beiträge zur Sozialtheorie, zur Begriffsbildung in der Soziologie und seiner vielfältigen inhaltlichen und empirischen Arbeiten spielt Merton bis heute eine bedeutende Rolle in der Soziologie als wissenschaftlicher Disziplin.

Zur Aktualität von Robert K. Merton

Civil rights and political participation: access to politics -- Recognition via religious difference: cultural citizenship in France? -- Assimilation without social and political citizenship: the urban riots of 2005 -- Transnational citizenship and Islamist terrorism: a radical break with France -- Conclusion: between the 'French ghetto' and Islamist terrorism - which citizenship? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Strategies of households in precarious prosperity in Chile, Costa Rica, Spain and Switzerland -- Introduction -- Concepts -- Conceptual framework -- Data and methods -- Results -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12: Demography and social citizenship -- Citizenship in an ageing world -- Population change in the modern world -- Life expectancy -- The neo-Malthusian conundrum: the fate of social citizenship in an ageing society -- Citizenship, demography and diversity: post-Marshall -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

The Transformation of Citizenship

Gregor Fitzi

The contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together critical analyses of the dynamics and processes neo- liberalism has facilitated in urban contexts. Recent developments, such as intensified economic investment and exposure to aggressive strategies of banks, hedge- funds and investors, and long- term processes of market- and state- led urban restructuration, have produced uneven urban geographies and new forms of exclusion and marginality. These strategies have no less transformed the governance of cities by subordinating urban social life to rationalities and practices of competition within and between cities, and they also heavily impact on city inhabitants’ experience of everyday life. Against the backdrop of recent austerity politics and a marketisation of cities, this volume discusses processes of urban neo- liberalisation with regard to democracy and citizenship, inclusion and exclusion, opportunities, and life- chances. It addresses pressing issues of commodification of housing and home, activation of civil society, vulnerability, and the right to the city.

Jürgen Mackert

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