Traditional understandings of citizenship are facing a number of
challenges. Ideas of cosmopolitan and environmental citizenship have
emerged in the light of concerns about global inequality and climate
change, whilst new models of multicultural citizenship have been
developed in response to the dilemmas posed by immigration and the
presence of national minorities. At the same time, more particular
debates take place about the demands citizenship places upon us in our
everyday lives. Do we have a duty as citizens to take steps to reduce
the risk of needing to rely upon state benefits, including health
care? Does good citizenship require that we send our children to the
local school even when it performs poorly? Does a parent fail in his
duty as a citizen - not just as a father, say - when he is less
involved in the raising of his children than their mother? Should
citizens refrain from appealing to religious reasons in public debate?
Do immigrants have a duty to integrate? Do we have duties of
citizenship to minimise the size of our ecological footprints? This
book develops a normative theory of citizenship that brings together
issues such as these under a common framework rather than treating
them in isolation in the way that often happens. It distinguishes two
different ways of thinking about citizenship both of which shed some
light on the demands that is makes upon us: according to the first
approach, the demands of citizenship are grounded exclusively in
considerations of justice, whereas according to the second, they are
grounded in the good that is realised by a political community the
members of which treat each other as equals not only in the political
process but in civil society and beyond.
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The Demands of Citizenship
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780191611544
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
OUP Oxford
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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