Crafting Citizenship - Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society

Informationen zum Autor MENNO HURENKAMP is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  EVELIEN TONKENS is a professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. JAN WILLEM DUYVENDAK is a professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has previously published The Politics of Home. Klappentext According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion. Zusammenfassung According to politics and the media! immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving! depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Feeling Good, Quarrelling Bad The Construction of Citizenship in Public Debate The Delegitimation of Political Authority Individualization and the Public Interest Globalization and the Culturalization of Citizenship The Three Freedoms of the Dutch: The Culturalization of Citizenship in the Netherlands Put in an International Perspective Crafting Citizenship Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Feeling Good, Quarrelling Bad The Construction of Citizenship in Public Debate The Delegitimation of Political Authority Individualization and the Public Interest Globalization and the Culturalization of Citizenship The Three Freedoms of the Dutch: The Culturalization of Citizenship in the Netherlands Put in an International Perspective Crafting Citizenship Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: J Duyvendak, J. Duyvendak, Jan W. Duyvendak, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Hurenkamp, M Hurenkamp, M. Hurenkamp, Menno Hurenkamp, Menno Tonkens Hurenkamp, HURENKAMP MENNO TONKENS EVELIEN, Tonkens, E Tonkens, E. Tonkens, Evelien Tonkens
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2012
• EAN: 9780230241541
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24154-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Sociology, Cultural Studies, European Politics, Human Rights, Social Policy, Political Sociology, European Union, Politics & government, Sociology, general, EU (European Union), Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government policies, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, European Union Politics, Ethnology—Europe, European Culture, Regional, state and other local government