Citizenship / Etienne Balibar, translated by Thomas Scott-Railton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balibar, Étienne, 1942-

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Citizenship--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

vii, 145 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2015.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian language.

Summary:

The question of what it means to be a citizen has, from the dawn of Western politics, been anything but clear and straightforward, and in modern societies it has become even more enigmatic and contested. Inseparable from democracy, and the demands for equality and liberty from which democracy draws its origins, citizenship is constantly being redefined within the unresolved contradiction between universal principles and the discriminatory mechanisms that regulate membership of a political community. Not everyone is a citizen, even within one nation-state. The dynamics of inclusion and exclusion continue to generate dramatic asymmetries and create openings and closures, especially today in a time of particular fragility and when national sovereignty is in flux. Balibar does not shy away from the antinomies of citizenship, but he knows that to renounce citizenship would be to abandon the chance to create new modes of collective autonomy, in short, to democratize democracy. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Democracy and Citizenship: An Antimomic Relationship 1

2 Politeia 7

3 Aequa Libertas 29

4 From Social Citizenship to the Social-National State 45

5 Citizenship and Exclusion 62

6 The Aporia of Conflictual Democracy 83

7 Neo-Liberalism and De-Democratization 102

8 Democratizing Democracy 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-139) and index.

ISBN:

9780745682402

0745682405

9780745682419

0745682413

OCLC:

897775904