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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Embattled Autochthony: The Radical Dutch Case
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Who Belongs? Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global South
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About this book
The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling at home, has become a requirement. This groundbreaking book analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants, who are increasingly expected to express feelings of attachment, belonging, connectedness and loyalty to their new country. More than this, however, it demonstrates how this culturalization of citizenship is a global trend with local variations, which develop in relation to each other. The authors pay particular attention to the intersection between sexuality, race and ethnicity, spurred on by their awareness of the dialectical construction of homosexuality, held up as representative of liberal Western values by both those in the West and by African leaders, who use such claims as proof that homosexuality is un-African.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His current research interests span the welfare state, social movements, nativism, belonging and ‘feeling at home’. His most recent books include The Politics of Home: Nostalgia and Belonging in Western Europe and the United States (Palgrave, 2011); European States and their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries (2014, co-edited with John Bowen, Christophe Bertossi and Mona Lena Krook); and Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest (2015, co-edited with James M. Jasper). He is co-editor of Ethnography.
Peter
Geschiere is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at Leiden University and the
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and co-editor of Ethnography.
He has been pursuing historical-anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon and
elsewhere in West Africa since 1971. His publications include The Modernity
of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Post-Colonial Africa (1997), Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and
Exclusion in Africa and Europe (2009), and Witchcraft,
Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison (2013).
Evelien Tonkens is a sociologist and Professor of
Citizenship and Humanisation of the Public Sector at the University for
Humanistic Studies, the Netherlands. She was previously
Professor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam, a member of the
Dutch parliament for the Green Left, and weekly columnist for the Dutch daily
newspaper Volkskrant. Her research
centres on ideals of citizenship and social change. Her recent books include Summoning the Active Citizen:
Responsibility, Participation and Choice (2011,
with Janet Newman) and Crafting
Citizenship: Negotiating Tensions in
Modern Society (Palgrave, 2012, with Menno Hurenkamp and Jan Willem
Duyvendak).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Culturalization of Citizenship
Book Subtitle: Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World
Editors: Jan Willem Duyvendak, Peter Geschiere, Evelien Tonkens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53410-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53409-5Published: 13 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53410-1Published: 30 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 231
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Ethnicity Studies, Cultural Studies, Area Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality