The constant fight against social inequalities is an integral part of what modern democracy stands for. However, in the case of gender, it is not always certain whether a gender equality claim serves, beyond specific women, also the deepening of democracy and the rendering of citizenship more substantial for all.
Τρίτη 12 Οκτωβρίου 2010
Dimitri Dimoulis, Soraya Lunardi: Citizenship as pluriform exclusion. National experiences
Recent research on citizenship in Greece and other countries are focused in the ethical-political-social dimensions of the conditions to become a citizen and ignore the decisive question of social-legal importance citizenship in each country.
Πέμπτη 30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010
Athena Athanasiou : Remains of citizenship: Biopolitical humanism and exceptions that matter
As a discourse and as a mode of sociability that determines what forms of life are recognizably human and thus politically qualified, citizenship is permeated by gendered, sexual, racial, national, and economic antinomies of belonging,
Τρίτη 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010
Sara Wallace Goodman: Integration requirements and tests in Europe - a comparative perspective
This paper examines changes in integration requirements—including civic knowledge and language tests, integration courses, contracts and oaths—across the EU member states in the past decade.
Dimitris Christopoulos: The citizen is the state within the individual»: portions of ethnicity and civility within (greek) citizenship
Rather indifferent to the current research on citizenship, the French philosopher, L. Althusser, has argued in his early writings that «the citizen is the state within the individual».
Konstantinos Tsitselikis: Aspects of legal communitarianism - Between millet and citizenship
Legal and political percepts pertaining to ethnic belonging in Greece are closely linked to the ideological understanding of Greekness, a legacy of the Ottoman Greek-Orthodox millet system.
Kyrkos Doxiadis: Citizenship and the mass media
The mass media are an integral part of citizens’ everyday life. At the same time, their crucial importance, among other things, consists in the fact that they constitute one of the central components of life-long education.
Patrícia Jerónimo: Citizenship in a post-colonial context - comparing the Dutch and the Portuguese case
The different forms of colonial rule had a major impact on the way in which access to citizenship was regulated before and after decolonisation.
Πέμπτη 23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010
Maarten Vink: Citizenship loss in a European comparative perspective: how emigration affects nationality status
Citizenship should indicate a genuine link between a state and a person.
Christian Joppke: Citizenship between de- and re-nationalization
I had argued earlier that contemporary citizenship is in the cross-fire of de- and re-ethnicizing forces,
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