Crafting citizenship: negotiating tensions in modern society

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization are driving citizens apart.b.ut in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or the inventiveness of local institutions.Drawing on quantitative and qualitative research among hundreds of active and less active citizens, and an analysis of a vast array of newspaper articles, this book explores the crafting of citizenship, examining.new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion. INDICE: List of Tables and Figures .Acknowledgements .Feeling Good, Quarrelling Bad.The Construction of Citizenship in Public Debate.The Delegitimation of Political Authority .Individualization and the Public Interest.Globalization and the Culturalization of Citizenship .The Three Freedoms of the Dutch: TheCulturalization of Citizenship in the Netherlands Put in an International Perspective.Crafting Citizenship.Appendix.Notes .Bibliography .Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24154-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 10/08/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido