300068 Citizenship and Development (S) (SoSe 2006)

Citizenship was long a neglected subject in the social sciences, but in a dramatic reversal it has more recently become a focal point for wide ranging and varied discussions concerning the democratic prospect in an increasingly global or world society. Indeed, it is fair to say that we are currently witnessing an efflorescence of interest in the future of citizenship. Moreover, this trend is a reflection of a growing belief in many quarters that we are living in what sociologist and former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso has referred to as ?an age of citizenship.? It quickly becomes quite clear that there is no singularly agreed upon answer to the question Derek Heater (1999) posed in the title of a book: What is Citizenship? In an effort to capture that which is deemed to be novel about the present situation, a proliferation of adjectives are evident in that literature aimed as describing peculiar features of citizenship today. Thus, we find treatments of world citizenship, global citizenship, universal citizenship, cosmopolitan citizenship, multiple citizenship, postnational citizenship, transnational citizenship, dual citizenship, nested citizenship, multi-layered citizenship, cultural citizenship, multicultural citizenship, cybercitizenship, environmental citizenship, feminist citizenship, gendered citizenship, flexible citizenship, traditional citizenship, intimate citizenship, and protective citizenship. And the list could go on.

The main question addressed in this seminar is whether citizenship is expanding or eroding. The seminar deals with citizenship in various ?worlds? ? the OECD world, transformation countries, and developing countries. The first part of the seminar deals with definitions and various concepts of citizenship. In the second part we deal with different issues associated with citizenship in the three worlds, and various forms of inclusion into and exclusion from citizenship ? such as the expansion and contraction of political and social rights, multiculturalism, and gendered citizenship. In the third part we ask whether ?Western? concepts of citizenship are adequate instruments to capture the development of citizen-state relations in transformation and developing countries. The fourth and last part of the seminar concerns aspects of citizenship beyond the container of sovereign states, such as multiple citizenship and global citizenship.

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Text for preparation: Peter Kivisto and Thomas Faist (2006): The Future of Citizenship. Oxford: Blackwell (in print). The manuscript is available in the Semesterapparat at the Universitätsbibliothek.