Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States
Published on 14. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-8476-9128-9 (ISBN)
Description
Citizenship has come under intense discussion recently because of threats to welfare and shifting immigration policies. The European Union has opened transnational citizenship rights and fledgling democracies throughout the world are struggling to establish their own versions of citizenship.
Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States connects all these current discussions and places them in historical perspective. The book presents a thematically unified analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries-from the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China. Showing how rights emerge with the appearance of new social groups and the reconfiguration of states, the authors identify conditions under which rights and citizenship expand as new groups develop within consolidated states as well as how rights and citizenship emerge within fragmented states with cross-cutting legal jurisdictions.
Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States connects all these current discussions and places them in historical perspective. The book presents a thematically unified analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries-from the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China. Showing how rights emerge with the appearance of new social groups and the reconfiguration of states, the authors identify conditions under which rights and citizenship expand as new groups develop within consolidated states as well as how rights and citizenship emerge within fragmented states with cross-cutting legal jurisdictions.
Reviews / Votes
A collection of very good articles, well edited by two outstanding scholars. * Contemporary Sociology * An important attempt at reminding us that citizenship cannot be taken for granted as an inbuilt feature of nation-states. Comprehensive bibliography is provided at the end of this informative collection. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
484 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9128-9 (9780847691289)
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Michael Hanagan is adjunct professor at the New School for Social Research.
Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.
Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction: Changing Citizenship, Changing States
Chapter 2 Burghers into Citizens: Urban and National Citizenship in the Netherlands during the Revolutionary Era (c. 1800)
Chapter 3 Citizens in Search of a State: The Limits of Political Participation in the Late Ottoman Empire
Chapter 4 Scripted Debates: Twentieth Century Immigration and Citizenship Policy in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States
Chapter 5 Citizenship in Chinese History
Chapter 6 The Right to Work and the Struggle Against Unemployment: Britain, 1884-1914
Chapter 7 Women's Collective Agency, Power Resources, and Framing of Citizenship Rights
Chapter 8 The Prospects for Transnational Social Policy: A Reappraisal
Chapter 9 From Special to Specialized Rights: The Politics of Citizenship and Identity in the European Union
Chapter 10 From Center to Periphery and Back Again: Reflections on the Geography of Democratic Innovation
Chapter 11 Conclusion: Why Worry About Citizenship?
Chapter 12 A Bibliography of Citizenship
Chapter 13 Index
Chapter 14 About the Contributors
Chapter 2 Burghers into Citizens: Urban and National Citizenship in the Netherlands during the Revolutionary Era (c. 1800)
Chapter 3 Citizens in Search of a State: The Limits of Political Participation in the Late Ottoman Empire
Chapter 4 Scripted Debates: Twentieth Century Immigration and Citizenship Policy in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States
Chapter 5 Citizenship in Chinese History
Chapter 6 The Right to Work and the Struggle Against Unemployment: Britain, 1884-1914
Chapter 7 Women's Collective Agency, Power Resources, and Framing of Citizenship Rights
Chapter 8 The Prospects for Transnational Social Policy: A Reappraisal
Chapter 9 From Special to Specialized Rights: The Politics of Citizenship and Identity in the European Union
Chapter 10 From Center to Periphery and Back Again: Reflections on the Geography of Democratic Innovation
Chapter 11 Conclusion: Why Worry About Citizenship?
Chapter 12 A Bibliography of Citizenship
Chapter 13 Index
Chapter 14 About the Contributors