Citizenship Between Past and Future

This book celebrates the tenth anniversary of the academic journal Citizenship Studies, which was founded in order to "focus on debates that move beyond conventional notions of citizenship, and treat citizenship as a strategic concept that is central in the analysis of identity, participation, empowerment, human rights and the public interest" and to analyze citizenship "in the context of contemporary processes involving globalisation, theories of international relations, changes to the state and political communities, multiculturalism, gender, indigenous peoples and national reconciliation, equity, social and public policy, welfare, and the reorganisation of public management." Presented by Isin (citizenship, The Open U., UK), Nyers (political science, McMaster U., Canada), and Turner (Asia Research Institute, National U. of Singapore, Singapore), the 13 papers contained here reflect that mission by discussing such topics as the kind of civic virtue and democratic values appropriate for a globalized world; the role of the spread of cosmopolitan norms in enhancing popular sovereignty; the reconciliation of rights-, status-, and identity-based concepts of citizenship; the tension between exclusionary and inclusionary dimensions of citizenship; the politics of the emerging European citizenship regime; citizenship struggles in South Africa and Botswana; megacities that host global migrations as "zones of mutating citizenship;" and the erosion of rights since the 9/11 attacks and its connection to the idea that we might be entering a post-citizenship society. Nine of the volume's 13 chapters were originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies, vol. 11, issue 1, 2007. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)