Crafting Citizenship: Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society

by M. Hurenkamp, E. Tonkens, J. Duyvendak

Overview

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of active citizenship and the actual conditions that hinder social cohesion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349317271
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MENNO HURENKAMP is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
EVELIEN TONKENS is a professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

JAN WILLEM DUYVENDAK is a professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has previously published The Politics of Home.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Feeling Good, Quarrelling Bad The Construction of Citizenship in Public Debate The Delegitimation of Political Authority Individualization and the Public Interest Globalization and the Culturalization of Citizenship The Three Freedoms of the Dutch: The Culturalization of Citizenship in the Netherlands Put in an International Perspective Crafting Citizenship Appendix Notes Bibliography Index