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Citizenship (Hardcover)
Elizabeth F. Cohen, Cyril Ghosh
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R1,337
Discovery Miles 13 370
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Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and
mass migration, many contemporary western liberal democracies are
asserting their sovereignty over who gets to become members of
their polities with renewed ferocity. Citizenship matters more than
ever. Â In this book, Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh
provide a concise and comprehensive introduction to the concept of
citizenship and evaluate the idea’s continuing relevance in the
21st century. They examine multiple facets of the concept,
including the classic and contemporary theories that inform the
practice of citizenship, the historical development of citizenship
as a practice, and citizenship as an instrument of administrative
rationality as well as lived experience. They show how access to a
range of rights and privileges that accrue from citizenship in
countries of the global north is creating a global
citizenship-based caste system.  This skillful
critical appraisal of citizenship in the context of phenomena such
as the global refugee crisis, South-North migration, and growing
demands for minority rights will be essential reading for students
and scholars of citizenship, migration studies and democratic
theory.
Waiting periods and deadlines are so ubiquitous that we often take
them for granted. Yet they form a critical part of any democratic
architecture. When a precise moment or amount of time is given
political importance, we ought to understand why this is so. The
Political Value of Time explores the idea of time within democratic
theory and practice. Elizabeth F. Cohen demonstrates how political
procedures use quantities of time to confer and deny citizenship
rights. Using specific dates and deadlines, states carve boundaries
around a citizenry. As time is assigned a form of political value
it comes to be used to transact over rights. Cohen concludes with a
normative analysis of the ways in which the devaluation of some
people's political time constitutes a widely overlooked form of
injustice. This book shows readers how and why they need to think
about time if they want to understand politics.
In every democratic polity there exist individuals and groups who
hold some but not all of the essential elements of citizenship.
Scholars who study citizenship routinely grasp for shared concepts
and language that identify forms of membership held by migrants,
children, the disabled, and other groups of individuals who, for
various reasons, are neither full citizens nor non-citizens. This
book introduces the concept of semi-citizenship as a means to
dramatically advance debates about individuals who hold some but
not all elements of full democratic citizenship. By analytically
classifying the rights of citizenship and their various
combinations, scholars can typologize semi-citizens and produce
comparisons of different kinds of semi-citizenships and of
semi-citizenships in different states. The book uses theoretical
analysis, historical examples, and contemporary cases of
semi-citizenship to illustrate how normative and governmental
doctrines of citizenship converge and conflict, making
semi-citizenship an enduring and inevitable part of democratic
politics.
In every democratic polity there exist individuals and groups who
hold some but not all of the essential elements of citizenship.
Scholars who study citizenship routinely grasp for shared concepts
and language that identify forms of membership held by migrants,
children, the disabled, and other groups of individuals who, for
various reasons, are neither full citizens nor non-citizens. This
book introduces the concept of semi-citizenship as a means to
dramatically advance debates about individuals who hold some but
not all elements of full democratic citizenship. By analytically
classifying the rights of citizenship and their various
combinations, scholars can typologize semi-citizens and produce
comparisons of different kinds of semi-citizenships and of
semi-citizenships in different states. The book uses theoretical
analysis, historical examples, and contemporary cases of
semi-citizenship to illustrate how normative and governmental
doctrines of citizenship converge and conflict, making
semi-citizenship an enduring and inevitable part of democratic
politics.
Waiting periods and deadlines are so ubiquitous that we often take
them for granted. Yet they form a critical part of any democratic
architecture. When a precise moment or amount of time is given
political importance, we ought to understand why this is so. The
Political Value of Time explores the idea of time within democratic
theory and practice. Elizabeth F. Cohen demonstrates how political
procedures use quantities of time to confer and deny citizenship
rights. Using specific dates and deadlines, states carve boundaries
around a citizenry. As time is assigned a form of political value
it comes to be used to transact over rights. Cohen concludes with a
normative analysis of the ways in which the devaluation of some
people's political time constitutes a widely overlooked form of
injustice. This book shows readers how and why they need to think
about time if they want to understand politics.
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