European Citizenship

National Legacies and Transnational Projects
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924120-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Is there a common ground on which a European citizenship can be constructed? This volume looks at four foundations of citizenship in Europe: the legacy of national identities, current designs and projects for social and political citizenship in Europe, a transitional public space as the basis of an active European Citizenship in Europe, and a transitional collective identity as a symbolic boundary marker for European citizenship. Such options raise the theoretical question of how to conceive citizenship in a transnationalizing world. Since the idea of European citizenship cannot escape the problem of defining who is a European citizen and who is not, the theoretical problem is tackled by defining the collective bonds of European citizens beyond primordial or traditional bonds that have dominated European history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eder, Klaus

Giesen, Berhard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: European Citizenship - an avenue for the social integration of Europe

- Part I National legacies of belonging: the tradition of citizenship in Europe

- 2: Dieter Gosewinkel: Citizenship, subjecthood, nationality. Concepts of belonging in the age of modern nation-states

- 3: Bernhard Giesen: National identity and citizenship. The cases of Germany and France

- Part II Projects for full citizenship in the Europolity

- 4: Klaus von Beyme: Citizenship and the European Union

- 5: Philippe C. Schmitter: The scope of citizenship in a democratized European Union: from economic to political to social and cultural?

- 6: Wolfgang Streeck: Citizenship under regime competition: the case of the European Works Councils

- Part III Citizenship participation in a European public space

- 7: Yasemin Soysal: Changing boundaries of participation in European Public Spheres

- 8: Carlos Closa: Requirements of a European public sphere: civil society, self and citizenship institutionalization

- Part IV Postnational projects of belonging: the question of a European identity

- 9: M. Rainer Lepsius: Is there a cultural identity emerging in the European Union?

- 10: Klaus Eder: Integration through culture? The paradox of the search for a European identity

- 11: Klaus Eder and Bernhard Giesen: Conclusion: Citizenship and the making of a European society. From the political to the social integration of Europe