Constituting Communities: Political Solutions to Cultural Differences

✍ Scribed by Per Mouritsen, Knud Erik Jorgensen

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The pluralism of contemporary states is often conceptualised as a problem of culture, which calls for more social cohesion. This in turn requires political, civic solutions. But what such appeals to words like citizenship, constitutionalism or civic patriotism imply is contested. From a cross-disciplinary and conceptual perspective the book discusses political solutions to cultural conflict such as constitutional patriotism, republicanism and liberal nationalism, but places these debates in the context of real national traditions, where all civic language inevitably also reflects "culture".

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
1 Political Responses to Cultural Conflict: Reflections on the Ambiguities of the Civic Turn......Page 16
2 Symbolic Power and Cultural Differences: A Power Model of Political Solutions to Cultural Differences......Page 46
3 Making Citizens: On the Genealogy of Citizenship Ceremonies......Page 68
4 The Politics of Discourse towards Islam and Muslim Communities in Europe......Page 88
5 Constitutional or Agonistic Patriotism? The Dilemmas of Liberal Nation-States......Page 109
6 Transnational Europe......Page 132
7 Constitutional Patriotism: Canada and the European Union......Page 153
8 Beyond Community and Rights: European Citizenship and the Virtues of Participation......Page 177
9 Constitutional Patriotism or Neo-republican Citizenship: A Way Forward for the EU?......Page 202
10 World Conflict over Religion: Secularism as a Flawed Solution......Page 223
11 Nomadism and the Ghetto......Page 251
C......Page 268
D......Page 270
F......Page 271
I......Page 272
M......Page 273
N......Page 274
R......Page 275
S......Page 276
U......Page 277
Z......Page 278