1st Edition

Contesting Citizenship

Edited By Birte Siim, Judith Squires Copyright 2008
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This new book shows how citizenship, and its meaning and form, has become a vital site of contestation. It clearly demonstrates how whilst minority groups struggle to redefine the rights of citizenship in more pluralized forms, the responsibilities of citizenship are being reaffirmed by democratic governments concerned to maintain the common political culture underpinning the nation. In... Read more

Birte Siim and Judith Squires, Introduction

Barbara Hobson, Stockolm University, Sweden, ‘Recognition Struggles in trans-national Arenas: Negotiating

Identities and Framing Citizenship’

Ulrike Liebert, University of Breman, Germany, ‘Dilemmas of Citizenship in the Enlarging Europe: Negotiating

Diversity Within Equality Across the East-West Divide’

Sawatri Saharso, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ‘Public philosophies on headscarves: a cross-

national European comparison’

Hege Skjeie, University of Oslo, Norway, ‘Gender Justice and Dynamic Politics of Rights’

Birte Siim: University of Aalborg, Denmark, ‘The challenge of Recognizing Diversity from the Perspective of Gender

Equality

Judith Squires, University of Bristol, UK, ‘Realising a Differentiated Citizenship: Deliberative Democracy and

Diversity Mainstreaming’

Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London, UK, ‘Intersectionality, Citizenship and Contemporary Politics of

Belonging’

Biography

Birte Siim, Judith Squires