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Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact
that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of
the world's population is urbanized, a social fact that has turned
cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple
economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of
individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute
cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as
restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces
have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today,
classical sociological questions about the city acquire new
meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the
modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city
the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban
environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic
relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be
asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as
neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or
migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on
the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights
of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial
questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city
and new developments of urbanism.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the consequences of
fundamental global economic, political, social and cultural
transformations that have been underway for decades challenge
modern citizenship. There can be no doubt that modern citizenship
can no longer operate as it did in the second half of the twentieth
century. Neither the politico-economic foundation nor the idea of
political participation nor formerly clear-cut boundaries or the
Western idea of peaceful deliberation about citizens' rights can be
taken for granted any longer. All over the world the rights of
citizens have come under enormous pressure. This is true in the
face of an extreme asymmetry of power between organised economic
interests and citizens that try to defend once achieved standards
of living; it is also true given new political centres of
decision-making that are beyond the control of citizens; it is true
for newly emerging boundaries that are mobilised in order to
re-define arrangements of inclusion and exclusion; finally, it is
true for growing resistance among the citizenries and violent
upheavals against both autocratic and declining democratic regimes
such as France and Great Britain. Against this background The
Transformation of Citizenship addresses the basic question of how
we can make sense of citizenship in the twenty-first century. These
volumes make a strong plea for a reorientation of the sociology of
citizenship and address serious threats of an ongoing erosion of
citizenship rights. Arguing from different scientific perspectives,
rather than offering new conceptions of citizenship as supposedly
more adequate models of rights, membership and belonging, they deal
with both the ways citizenship is transformed and the ways it
operates in the face of fundamentally transformed conditions.
The contributions to this volume Migration, Gender and Religion
bring together empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated
case studies of populist responses to what are perceived to be the
threats to national survival and sovereignty from
‘uncontrolled’ immigration. The demographic context –
declining fertility rates and ageing populations – promotes the
belief that high Muslim fertility rates are material evidence of an
Islamic threat to the West, to national cohesion and particularly
to the safety and dignity of the women of the host community.
Consequently, gender plays an important part in populist ideology,
but populist attitudes to gender are often contradictory. Populist
movements are often marked by misogyny and by policies that are
typically anti-feminist in rejecting gender equality. The
traditional family with a dominant father and submissive mother is
promoted as the basis of national values and the remedy against
social decline. The obsession with women in the public domain
points to a crisis of masculinity associated with unemployment, the
impact of austerity packages on social status, and the growth of
pink collar employment. Inevitably, religion is drawn into these
political debates about the future of Western societies, because
religion in general has seen the family and mothers as essential
for the reproduction of religion. Christendom has been identified
by populists as providing the ultimate defence of the borders of
European civilisation against Islam, despite the fact that church
leaders have often defended and welcomed outsiders in terms of
Christian charity. Once more Christian Europe is the Abendland
standing in defiance of a threatening and subversive Morgenland.
This volume will be an invaluable reference for students and
scholars in the field of political theory, political sociology and
European Studies.
There is no threat to Western democracies today comparable to the
rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role
at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the
global financial crises in 2008 have given it its break that led to
UK's 'Brexit' and the election of Donald Trump as US President in
2016, as well as promoting what has been called left populism in
countries that were hit the hardest by both the banking crisis and
consequential neo-liberal austerity politics in the EU, such as
Greece and Portugal. In 2017, the French Front National (FN)
attracted many voters in the French Presidential elections; we have
seen the radicalization of the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in
Germany and the formation of centre-right government in Austria.
Further, we have witnessed the consolidation of autocratic regimes,
as in the EU member states Poland and Greece. All these
manifestations of right-wing populism share a common feature: they
attack or even compromise the core elements of democratic societies
such as the separation of powers, protection of minorities, or the
rule of law. Despite a broad debate on the re-emergence of
'populism' in the transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first
century that has brought forth many interesting findings, a lack of
sociological reasoning cannot be denied, as sociology itself
withdrew from theorising populism decades ago and largely left the
field to political sciences and history. In a sense, Populism and
the Crisis of Democracy considers itself a contribution to begin
filling this lacuna. Written in a direct and clear style, this set
of volumes will be an invaluable reference for students and
scholars in the field of political theory, political sociology and
European Studies. This volume Concepts and Theory offers new and
fresh perspectives on the debate on populism. Starting from
complaints about the problems of conceptualising populism that in
recent years have begun to revolve around themselves, the chapters
offer a fundamental critique of the term and concept of populism,
theoretically inspired typologies and descriptions of currently
dominant concepts, and ways to elaborate on them. With regard to
theory, the volume offers approaches that exceed the disciplinary
horizon of political science that so far has dominated the debate.
As sociological theory so far has been more or less absent in the
debate on populism, only few efforts have been made to discuss
populism more intensely within different theoretical contexts in
order to explain its dynamics and processes. Thus, this volume
offers critical views on the debate on populism from the
perspectives of political economy and the analysis of critical
historical events, the links of analyses of populism with social
movement mobilisation, the significance of 'superfluous
populations' in the rise of populism and an analysis of the
exclusionary character of populism from the perspective of the
theory of social closure.
The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and
Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the
crisis of representation that is affecting parliamentary democracy.
Right-wing populism skyrocketed to electoral success and is now
part of the government in several European countries, but it also
shaped the Brexit campaign and the US presidential election. In
Southern Europe, left-wing populism transformed the classical two
parties systems into ungovernable three fractions parliaments,
whereas in Latin America it still presents an instable alternative
to liberal democracy. The varying consequences of populist
mobilisation so far consist in the maceration of the established
borders of political culture, the distortion of legislation
concerning migrants and migration, and the emergence of hybrid
regimes bordering on and sometimes leaning towards dictatorship.
Yet, in order to understand populism, innovative research
approaches are required that need to be capable of overcoming
stereotypes and conceptual dichotomies which are deeply rooted in
the political debate. The chapters of this volume offer such new
theoretical strategies for inquiring into the multi-faceted
populist phenomenon. The chapters analyse its language, concepts
and its relationship to social media in an innovative way, draw the
con - tours of left- and right-wing populism and reconstruct its
shifting delimitation to political extremism. Furthermore, they
value the most significant aftermath of populist mobilisation on
the institutional frame of parliamentary democracy from the
limitation of the freedom of press, to the dismantling of the
separation of powers, to the erosion of citizenship rights. This
volume will be an invaluable reference for students and scholars in
the field of political theory, political sociology and European
Studies.
This volume Struggle, Resistance and Violence examines the fact
that all over the world the rights of citizens have come under
enormous pressure and addresses the many ways in which people are
'making claims' against both autocratic and democratic authority.
Without any doubt rule-breaking, riots and violent upheavals have
become an aspect of political struggles for citizenship. The book
takes up a conflict perspective that directs attention to these
recent phenomena. It stresses the necessity of a careful analysis
of resistance and violence as critical factors for coming to terms
with social conflicts for citizenship from Europe to South America,
as well as the Near East, the Far East and the Arab World.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the consequences of
fundamental global economic, political, social and cultural
transformations that have been underway for decades challenge
modern citizenship. There can be no doubt that modern citizenship
can no longer operate as it did in the second half of the twentieth
century. Neither the politico-economic foundation nor the idea of
political participation nor formerly clear-cut boundaries or the
Western idea of peaceful deliberation about citizens' rights can be
taken for granted any longer. All over the world the rights of
citizens have come under enormous pressure. This is true in the
face of an extreme asymmetry of power between organised economic
interests and citizens that try to defend once achieved standards
of living; it is also true given new political centres of
decision-making that are beyond the control of citizens; it is true
for newly emerging boundaries that are mobilised in order to
re-define arrangements of inclusion and exclusion; finally, it is
true for growing resistance among the citizenries and violent
upheavals against both autocratic and declining democratic regimes
such as France and Great Britain. Against this background The
Transformation of Citizenship addresses the basic question of how
we can make sense of citizenship in the twenty-first century. These
volumes make a strong plea for a reorientation of the sociology of
citizenship and address serious threats of an ongoing erosion of
citizenship rights. Arguing from different scientific perspectives,
rather than offering new conceptions of citizenship as supposedly
more adequate models of rights, membership and belonging, they deal
with both the ways citizenship is transformed and the ways it
operates in the face of fundamentally transformed conditions.
The Transformation of Citizenship addresses the basic question of
how we can make sense of citizenship in the twenty-first century.
These volumes make a strong plea for a reorientation of the
sociology of citizenship and address serious threats of an ongoing
erosion of citizenship rights. Arguing from different scientific
perspectives, rather than offering new conceptions of citizenship
as supposedly more adequate models of rights, membership and
belonging, they deal with both the ways citizenship is transformed
and the ways it operates in the face of fundamentally transformed
conditions. This volume Political Economy discusses manifold
consequences of a decades-long enforcement of neo-liberalism for
the rights of citizens. As neo-liberalism not only means a new form
of economic system, it has to be conceived of as an entirely new
form of global, regional and national governance that radically
transforms economic, political and social relations in society. Its
consequences for citizenship as a social institution are no less
than dramatic. Against the background of both manifest and
ideological processes the book looks at if citizenship has lost the
basis it has rested upon for decades, or if the institution itself
is in a process of being fundamentally transformed and
restructured, thereby changing its meaning and the significance of
citizens' rights. This book will appeal to academics working in the
field of political theory, political sociology and European
studies.
This volume Struggle, Resistance and Violence examines the fact
that all over the world the rights of citizens have come under
enormous pressure and addresses the many ways in which people are
'making claims' against both autocratic and democratic authority.
Without any doubt rule-breaking, riots and violent upheavals have
become an aspect of political struggles for citizenship. The book
takes up a conflict perspective that directs attention to these
recent phenomena. It stresses the necessity of a careful analysis
of resistance and violence as critical factors for coming to terms
with social conflicts for citizenship from Europe to South America,
as well as the Near East, the Far East and the Arab World.
There is no threat to Western democracies today comparable to the
rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role
at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the
global financial crises in 2008 have given it its break that led to
UK's 'Brexit' and the election of Donald Trump as US President in
2016, as well as promoting what has been called left populism in
countries that were hit the hardest by both the banking crisis and
consequential neo-liberal austerity politics in the EU, such as
Greece and Portugal. In 2017, the French Front National (FN)
attracted many voters in the French Presidential elections; we have
seen the radicalization of the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in
Germany and the formation of centre-right government in Austria.
Further, we have witnessed the consolidation of autocratic regimes,
as in the EU member states Poland and Greece. All these
manifestations of right-wing populism share a common feature: they
attack or even compromise the core elements of democratic societies
such as the separation of powers, protection of minorities, or the
rule of law. Despite a broad debate on the re-emergence of
'populism' in the transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first
century that has brought forth many interesting findings, a lack of
sociological reasoning cannot be denied, as sociology itself
withdrew from theorising populism decades ago and largely left the
field to political sciences and history. In a sense, Populism and
the Crisis of Democracy considers itself a contribution to begin
filling this lacuna. Written in a direct and clear style, this set
of volumes will be an invaluable reference for students and
scholars in the field of political theory, political sociology and
European Studies. This volume Concepts and Theory offers new and
fresh perspectives on the debate on populism. Starting from
complaints about the problems of conceptualising populism that in
recent years have begun to revolve around themselves, the chapters
offer a fundamental critique of the term and concept of populism,
theoretically inspired typologies and descriptions of currently
dominant concepts, and ways to elaborate on them. With regard to
theory, the volume offers approaches that exceed the disciplinary
horizon of political science that so far has dominated the debate.
As sociological theory so far has been more or less absent in the
debate on populism, only few efforts have been made to discuss
populism more intensely within different theoretical contexts in
order to explain its dynamics and processes. Thus, this volume
offers critical views on the debate on populism from the
perspectives of political economy and the analysis of critical
historical events, the links of analyses of populism with social
movement mobilisation, the significance of 'superfluous
populations' in the rise of populism and an analysis of the
exclusionary character of populism from the perspective of the
theory of social closure.
The contributions to this volume Migration, Gender and Religion
bring together empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated
case studies of populist responses to what are perceived to be the
threats to national survival and sovereignty from 'uncontrolled'
immigration. The demographic context - declining fertility rates
and ageing populations - promotes the belief that high Muslim
fertility rates are material evidence of an Islamic threat to the
West, to national cohesion and particularly to the safety and
dignity of the women of the host community. Consequently, gender
plays an important part in populist ideology, but populist
attitudes to gender are often contradictory. Populist movements are
often marked by misogyny and by policies that are typically
anti-feminist in rejecting gender equality. The traditional family
with a dominant father and submissive mother is promoted as the
basis of national values and the remedy against social decline. The
obsession with women in the public domain points to a crisis of
masculinity associated with unemployment, the impact of austerity
packages on social status, and the growth of pink collar
employment. Inevitably, religion is drawn into these political
debates about the future of Western societies, because religion in
general has seen the family and mothers as essential for the
reproduction of religion. Christendom has been identified by
populists as providing the ultimate defence of the borders of
European civilisation against Islam, despite the fact that church
leaders have often defended and welcomed outsiders in terms of
Christian charity. Once more Christian Europe is the Abendland
standing in defiance of a threatening and subversive Morgenland.
This volume will be an invaluable reference for students and
scholars in the field of political theory, political sociology and
European Studies.
The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and
Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the
crisis of representation that is affecting parliamentary democracy.
Right-wing populism skyrocketed to electoral success and is now
part of the government in several European countries, but it also
shaped the Brexit campaign and the US presidential election. In
Southern Europe, left-wing populism transformed the classical two
parties systems into ungovernable three fractions parliaments,
whereas in Latin America it still presents an instable alternative
to liberal democracy. The varying consequences of populist
mobilisation so far consist in the maceration of the established
borders of political culture, the distortion of legislation
concerning migrants and migration, and the emergence of hybrid
regimes bordering on and sometimes leaning towards dictatorship.
Yet, in order to understand populism, innovative research
approaches are required that need to be capable of overcoming
stereotypes and conceptual dichotomies which are deeply rooted in
the political debate. The chapters of this volume offer such new
theoretical strategies for inquiring into the multi-faceted
populist phenomenon. The chapters analyse its language, concepts
and its relationship to social media in an innovative way, draw the
con - tours of left- and right-wing populism and reconstruct its
shifting delimitation to political extremism. Furthermore, they
value the most significant aftermath of populist mobilisation on
the institutional frame of parliamentary democracy from the
limitation of the freedom of press, to the dismantling of the
separation of powers, to the erosion of citizenship rights. This
volume will be an invaluable reference for students and scholars in
the field of political theory, political sociology and European
Studies.
The Transformation of Citizenship addresses the basic question of
how we can make sense of citizenship in the twenty-first century.
These volumes make a strong plea for a reorientation of the
sociology of citizenship and address serious threats of an ongoing
erosion of citizenship rights. Arguing from different scientific
perspectives, rather than offering new conceptions of citizenship
as supposedly more adequate models of rights, membership and
belonging, they deal with both the ways citizenship is transformed
and the ways it operates in the face of fundamentally transformed
conditions. This volume Political Economy discusses manifold
consequences of a decades-long enforcement of neo-liberalism for
the rights of citizens. As neo-liberalism not only means a new form
of economic system, it has to be conceived of as an entirely new
form of global, regional and national governance that radically
transforms economic, political and social relations in society. Its
consequences for citizenship as a social institution are no less
than dramatic. Against the background of both manifest and
ideological processes the book looks at if citizenship has lost the
basis it has rested upon for decades, or if the institution itself
is in a process of being fundamentally transformed and
restructured, thereby changing its meaning and the significance of
citizens' rights. This book will appeal to academics working in the
field of political theory, political sociology and European
studies.
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact
that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of
the world's population is urbanized, a social fact that has turned
cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple
economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of
individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute
cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as
restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces
have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today,
classical sociological questions about the city acquire new
meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the
modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city
the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban
environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic
relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be
asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as
neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or
migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on
the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights
of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial
questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city
and new developments of urbanism.
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