The future governance of citizenship /
By: Kostakopoulou, Theodora
Material type: BookPublisher: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, c2008.Description: viii, 230 p ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780521701785Subject(s): World citizenship | Citizenship -- Philosophy | Domicile | Globalization | Domicile as point of contact (Conflict of laws)DDC classification: 323.6 KO FU Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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323.6 IS CI Citizenship and identity | 323.6 IS CI Citizenship and identity | 323.6 KA CI Citizenship : | 323.6 KO FU The future governance of citizenship / | 323.6 TE CH Technoscience and citizenship : | 323.609174927 PA CI Citizenship in the Arab world : | 323.6094 MI GR Migrating borders : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-219) and index.
The cartography of citizenship -- The nationality model of citizenship and its critics -- Shades of togetherness, patriotism and naturalisation -- The institutional design of anational citizenship -- Anational citizenship in the international public realm -- The variable geometry of citizenship -- Pathways to inclusion.
In much of the citizenship literature it is often considered, if not simply assumed, that citizenship is integral to the character of a self-determining community and that this process, by definition, involves the exclusion of resident 'foreigners'. Dora Kostakopoulou calls this assumption into question, arguing that 'aliens' are by definition outside the bounds of the community by virtue of a circular reasoning which takes for granted the existence of bounded national communities, and that this process of collective self-definition is deeply political and historically dated. Although national citizenship has enjoyed a privileged position in both theory and practice, its remarkable elasticity has reached its limit, thereby making it more important to find an alternative model. Kostakopoulou develops a new institutional framework for anational citizenship, which can be grafted onto the existing state system, defends it against objections and proposes institutional reform based on an innovative approach to citizenship.