The dialectics of citizenship : exploring privilege, exclusion, and racialization / Bernd Reiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reiter, Bernd, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autonomy.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-62895-162-1

1-60917-351-1

OCLC:

842500451