1st Edition

Cultural Citizenship in Political Theory

Edited By Judith Vega, Pieter Boele van Hensbroek Copyright 2012
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

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 identities, immigrations, culture industries) or by increasingly life-style oriented types of action.... Read more

1. The agendas of cultural citizenship: a political-theoretical exercise, Judith Vega  and Pieter Boele van Hensbroek,  I. Political philosophy goes cultural.  2. A neorepublican cultural citizenship: beyond Marxism and liberalism, Judith Vega, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.  3. Cultural citizenship, education and democracy: redefining the good society, Nick Stevenson.  4. Three cultural turns. how multiculturalism, interactivity and interpassivity affect citizenship, Gijs van Oenen.  II. Cultural practice goes political.  5. Cultural citizenship and real politics: the Dutch case, René Boomkens.  6. Cultural citizenship as a normative notion for activist practices, Pieter Boele van Hensbroek.  7. Cultural politics: disciplining citizenship, Davina Bhandar.

Biography

Judith Vega is Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Her research addresses crossroads of politics and culture, viz. social justice and recognition, republicanism and feminism, and representations of urban life. She was editor-in-chief of the Dutch academic journal Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies.

Pieter Boele van Hensbroek lectures in Development Studies and Political Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He studies political thought in non-Western societies, was editor of the African journal of philosophy Quest and works at Globalisation Studies Groningen (GSG).