Culturalization of Citizenship - Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World

Informationen zum Autor Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology atthe University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His current research interests span the welfarestate, social movements, nativism, belonging and ‘feeling at home’. His mostrecent books include  The Politics of Home: Nostalgia and Belonging inWestern Europe and the United States  (Palgrave, 2011);  EuropeanStates and their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions andBoundaries  (2014, co-edited with JohnBowen, Christophe Bertossi and Mona Lena Krook); and Players and Arenas: TheInteractive Dynamics of Protest (2015, co-editedwith James M. Jasper). He is co-editor of Ethnography. PeterGeschiere is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at Leiden University and theUniversity of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and co-editor of Ethnography .He has been pursuing historical-anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon andelsewhere in West Africa since 1971. His publications include The Modernityof Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Post-Colonial Africa (1997), Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship andExclusion in Africa and Europe (2009), and Witchcraft,Intimacy and Trust: Africa in Comparison (2013). Evelien Tonkens is a sociologist and Professor ofCitizenship and Humanisation of the Public Sector at the University forHumanistic Studies, the Netherlands.  She was previouslyProfessor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam, a member of theDutch parliament for the Green Left, and weekly columnist for the Dutch dailynewspaper Volkskrant . Her researchcentres on ideals of citizenship and social change. Her recent books include Summoning the Active Citizen:Responsibility, Participation and Choice (2011,with Janet Newman) and CraftingCitizenship: Negotiating Tensions inModern Society (Palgrave, 2012, with Menno Hurenkamp and Jan WillemDuyvendak).  Klappentext The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling at home, hasbecome a requirement. This groundbreaking book analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants, who are increasingly expected to express feelings of attachment, belonging, connectedness and loyalty to their new country. More than this, however, it demonstrates how this culturalization of citizenship is a global trend with local variations, which develop in relation to each other. The authors pay particular attention to the intersection between sexuality, race and ethnicity, spurred on by their awareness of the dialectical construction of homosexuality, held up as representative of liberal Western values by both those in the West and by African leaders, who use such claims as proof that homosexuality is un-African. Zusammenfassung The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling at home, hasbecome a requirement. This groundbreaking book analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants, who are increasingly expected to express feelings of attachment, belonging, connectedness and loyalty to their new country. More than this, however, it demonstrates how this culturalization of citizenship is a global trend with local variations, which develop in relation to each other. The authors pay particular attention to the intersection between sexuality, race and ethnicity, spurred on by their awareness of the dialectical construction of homosexuality, held up as representative of liberal Western values by both those in the West and by African leaders, who use such claims as proof that homosexuality is un-African.  Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction:the culturalization...

List of contents

1. Introduction:the culturalization of citizenship; Evelien Tonkens and Jan Willem Duyvendak
I. Embattled Autochthony: The RadicalDutch Case
2. Out of character: Dutchness as a public problem; Rogier vanReekum
3. Nationalism without nationalism?Dutch self-images among the progressive left; Josip Kesic and Jan Willem Duyvendak
4. The culturalization ofeveryday life: autochthony in Amsterdam New West; Paul Mepschen
5. The nativist triangle: sexuality, race and religion in the Netherlands; Markus Balkenhol, Paul Mepschen and Jan Willem Duyvendak
II. Who Belongs? Inclusion andExclusion in the Global South
6. Thenation and its undesirable subjects: homosexuality, citizenship and the gay'other' in Cameroon; Basile Ndjio
7. Yu di Kòrsou, a matterof negotiation: an anthropological exploration of the identity work ofAfro-Curaçaons; Rose May Allen & Francio Guadeloupe
8. Ghanaian migrants and the culturalization of citizenship inEurope: what does autochthony and belonging have to do with it?; Maame AdwoaGyekyeh-Jandoh
9. Expelled from fortress Europe:returned migrant associations in Bamako and the quest for cosmopolitancitizenship; Isaie Dougnon
10. Conclusion: postscript on sex, race andculture; Peter Geschiere and Francio Guadeloupe

Product details

• Authors: Jan Willem Geschiere Duyvendak
• Assisted by: Jan W. Duyvendak (Editor), Jan Willem Duyvendak (Editor), Pete Geschiere (Editor), Peter Geschiere (Editor), Evelien Tonkens (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2016
• EAN: 9781137534095
• ISBN: 978-1-137-53409-5
• No. of pages: 243
• Series: Perspektiven der Mathematikdidaktik; Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories