Citizenship - Political Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. Migration and Citizenship Attribution

   Politics and Policies in Western Europe

   Edited by Maarten Vink

   How do states in Western Europe deal with the challenges of migration for citizenship? The legal relationship between a person and a state is becoming increasingly blurred in our mobile, transnational world. This volume deals with the membership dimension of citizenship, specifically the formal...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Democratic Citizenship and its Futures

   Edited by Chris Armstrong, Andrew Mason

   Citizenship has provided a focus for many of the most significant arguments about justice and democracy. Major theorists of justice, for instance, have tried to understand its contours by thinking through the question of what rights and entitlements fellow citizens ought to enjoy. Theoretical...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Elites and Identities in Post-Soviet Space

   Edited by David Lane

   Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

   The dissolution of the communist system led to the creation of new states and the formation of new concepts of citizenship in the post-Soviet states of Central and Eastern Europe. The formation of national identity also occurred in the context of the process of increasing economic and political...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies

   Edited by Kirstie Ball, Kevin Haggerty, David Lyon

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes, such as...

   Published March 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Governing Through Pedagogy

   Re-educating Citizens

   Edited by Jessica Pykett

   This edited collection brings together researchers from education, human geography, sociology, social policy and political theory in order to consider the idea of the ‘pedagogical state’ as a means of understanding the strategies employed to re-educate citizens. The book aims to critically...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Nationalism and National Identities

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countries dealing both with theories and case studies of particular national contexts. Taken together, these papers shed light on the processes through which...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. Latino Identity in Contemporary America

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This edited collection brings together original research papers that explore an important aspect of race and ethnic studies, namely the processes that are shaping the making of Latina and Latino identities in contemporary America. This is a question that has received much attention in the USA over...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Contested Citizenship in East Asia

   Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization

   Edited by Kyung-Sup Chang, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Film, History and Cultural Citizenship

   Sites of Production

   Edited by Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of modernity; and, secondly, the role of film in shaping...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. Cultural Citizenship in Political Theory

    Edited by Judith Vega, Pieter Boele van Hensbroek

    Cultural citizenship is a recently developed concept in discussions on multicultural society, the media society, consumerism, and political theory. It addresses the various ways in which citizenship is becoming mixed up with culture, either through globalisation processes (involving new cultural...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge