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`Culture' and `citizenship' are two of the most hotly contested concepts in the social sciences. What are the relationships between them? This book explores the issues of inclusion and exclusion, the market and policy, rights and responsibilities, and the definitions of citizens and non-citizens. Substantive topics investigated in the various chapters include: cultural democracy; intersubjectivity and the unconscious; globalization and the nation state; European citizenship; and the discourses on cultural policy.
List of contents
Culture and Citizenship - Nick Stevenson
An Introduction
Outline of a General Theory of Cultural Citizenship - Bryan S Turner
Citizenship, Intersubjectivity and the Lifeworld - Nick Crossley
The Reinvention of Citizenship - Anthony Elliott
Psychoanalysis, Identity and Citizenship - Stephen Frosh
Citizenship, Popular Culture and Europe - Maurice Roche
Cultural Citizenship and Urban Governance in Western Europe - Jude Bloomfield and Franco Bianchini
Three Discourses of Cultural Policy - Jim McGuigan
Feminism and Citizenship - Anna Yeatman
Extending Citizenship - Diane Richardson
Cultural Citizenship and Sexuality
Disability and Cultural Citizenship - Deborah Marks
Exclusion, `Integration¿ and Resistance
Youth Marginality under `Postmodernism¿ - Shane Blackman and Alan France
Race, Multiculturalism and Difference - John Solomos
About the author
Nick Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.
Summary
`Stevenson's exciting collection takes the issue of cultural citizenship far beyond the liberal concerns with tolerance, diversity, social rights and obligations. The attainment of such citizenship, the author's argue, is conditional on positive cultural democratization, that is, the availability of cultural resources (semiotic and material) essential for meaningful and critical life, as well as the public institutions protecting us "from the excesses of the free market". Both are considered within the context of the IT revolution ("electronic democracy"), new social movements (especially feminist), and identity formation. The volume, especially the contributions by Turner, Crossley, Elliott, Yeatman and Frosh, demonstrates the vitality of theoretical reflection linking citizenship, culture and democracy' - Jan Pakulski, University of Tasmania`Culture' and `citizenship' are two of the most hotly contested concepts in the social sciences.What do they really mean? What are the relationships between them? This lively and penetrating book outlines the new linkages between culture and citizenship. In particular, it sheds light on issues of inclusion and exclusion, market and policy, rights and responsibilities, and the definition of citizens and non-citizens. Substantive topics investigated include: cultural democracy; intersubjectivity and the unconscious; globalization and the nation state; European citizenship; and discourses on cultural policy. For anyone working or studying at the interface between citizenship and culture, this is an indispensable and timely volume.
