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The dialectics of citizenship : exploring privilege, exclusion and racialization /

What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants an...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Reiter, Bernd, 1968-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2013.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The epistemology and methodology of exploratory social science research: crossing Popper with Marcuse
  • Conceptualizing citizenship: disjunctive, dual, divided, entangled, or what?
  • Classical citizenship: the political and the social
  • Medieval European citizenship: Christian rights and Jewish duties
  • France: liberalism unveiled
  • The postcolonial within: Portugal, white, and European
  • Brazil: experts in exclusion
  • Colombia: when law and reality clash
  • Conclusion: learning from exploratory research.