Seyla Benhabib / Ian Shapiro / Danilo Petranovich (eds.)

Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances

Herausgeber: Benhabib, Seyla; Shapiro, Ian; Petranovic, Danilo

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Produktbeschreibung

Where do political identities come from, how do they change over time, and what is their impact on political life? This book explores these and related questions in a globalizing world where the nation state is being transformed, definitions of citizenship are evolving in unprecedented ways, and people's interests and identities are taking on new local, regional, transnational, cosmopolitan, and even imperial configurations. Pre-eminent scholars examine the changing character of identities, affiliations, and allegiances in a variety of contexts: the evolving character of the European Union and its member countries, the Balkans and other new democracies of the post-1989 world, and debates about citizenship and cultural identity in the modern West. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the political and intellectual ferment that surrounds debates about political membership and attachment, and will be of interest to students and scholars in the social sciences, humanities, and law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 707g
• ISBN-13: 9780521686938
• ISBN-10: 0521686938
• Artikelnr.: 22591431

Autorenporträt

Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and Director of the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University. Her most recent publications include Transformation of Citizenship: Dilemmas of the Nation-State in the Era of Globalization (2000), The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global World (2002) and The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens (2004) which won the Ralph Bunche award of the American Political Science Association and the North American Society's best book in Social Philosophy award.
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Henry R. Luce Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. His most recent publications include The Moral Foundations of Politics (2003), The State of Democratic Theory (2003), The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences (2005) and Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Michael J. Graetz, 2005).
Danilo Petranovich is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Yale University. His research focuses on the shaping of American allegiances from the Founding period through the Civil War.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro and Danilo Petranovich; Part I.
Emergence and Limits of National Political Identities: 1. From affiliation
to affinity: citizenship in the transition from empire to the nation-state
Faruk Birtek; 2. Transnationalizing the public sphere: on the legitimacy
and efficacy of public opinion in a postwestphalian world Nancy Fraser; 3.
'Being there': place, territory, and identity Charles Maier; 4. Political
boundaries in a multilevel democracy Rainer Bauböck; Part II. Multiple
Identities in Practice: The European Example: 5. Building European
institutions: beyond strong ties and weak commitments Veit Bader; 6. Soft
borders and transnational citizens Julie Mostov; 7. Transnational
nationalism: redefining nation and territory Riva Kastoryano; Part III.
Decoupling Citizenship from Identity: 8. Binding problems, boundary
problems: the trouble with 'democratic citizenship' Clarissa Hayward; 9.
Immigrant political integration and ethnic civic communities in Amsterdam
Jean Tillie and Boris Slijper; 10. Nonterritorial boundaries of citizenship
Melissa Williams, 11. Against birthright privilege: re-defining citizenship
as property Ayelet Shachar; Part IV. Identity and Historical Injustice: 12.
Social solidarity as a problem for cosmopolitan democracy Craig Calhoun;
13. The continuing significance of ethnocultural identity Jorge Valadez;
14. Amnesty or impunity? A preliminary critique of the report of the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Mahmood Mamdani; 15. Law's
races Rogers Smith.

Rezensionen

'An exemplary demonstration of the creative benefits of collaboration between normative theorists and social scientists on a vital subject of growing concern world-wide. Its special strength is to lift issues of citizenship, immigration and ethnicity out of their specialized niches and reconsider them in the context of what one of the contributors properly characterizes as a ‘PostWestphalian World.’ Deserving a wide readership in philosophy, political science, sociology, and international affairs, this book will undoubtedly stimulate a reconceptualization of the entire field.' Aristide R. Zolberg, Walter P. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science, New School for Social Research