ABSTRACT
Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume presents and discusses acute contestations, within and beyond national borders and boundaries. Democracy’s crucial relationships, between state and citizenry as well as amongst citizens, are rearranged and re-ordered in various spheres and arenas, impacting on core democratic principles such as accountability, legitimacy, participation and trust. This volume addresses these refigurations by bringing together empirical analyses and conceptual considerations regarding the access to and exclusion from citizenship rights in the face of migration regulation and institutional transformation, and the role of violence in maintaining or undermining social order. With its critical reflection on the consequences and repercussions of such processes for citizens’ everyday lives and for the meaning of citizenship altogether, this book transgresses disciplinary boundaries and puts into dialogue the perspectives of political theory and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|52 pages
Contesting borders and boundaries
chapter 1|17 pages
Rescaling citizenship
chapter 3|15 pages
Migration and democracy
part 2|56 pages
The violence of democracies
chapter 5|16 pages
The crisis of social trust in non-violent routines
part 3|60 pages
The refiguration of institutions