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The Dynamics of Citizenship in the Post-Political World

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CITIZENSHIP AS NEW NOTIONS OF BELONGING AND IDENTITY addresses questions about citizenship and belonging and how different social groups and individuals practice and experience both. Governmental policies designed to secure social inclusion address different groups of citizens. The workshop therefore asks what gender, ethnic, and indigenous identities are being constructed in these policies. For example, in some contexts minority women may be addressed as a group that carries a special responsibility in bringing about the desired change. The workshop also foregrounds the issue of “intersectionality” and inquires what challenges relate to a framework of citizenship sensitive to multiple inequalities and the intersection between them. It also penetrates the question of how states create citizen identities through their policies and institutions and how this affects how different groups of citizens understand their position, rights, and responsibilities in society. It addresses these questions of the new notions of citizenship belonging and identity in the context of the local, regional, and global levels of citizenship as well as in multi-level governance and transnationalism. In the context of the European Union, one can ask questions about inclusiveness of European attempts to redefine a European identity and citizenship. Do these attempts construct identities and categories that majority and minority groups alike can identify with? And what role does gender play?

Workshop organizers:

Adjunct Professor Johanna Kantola, University of Helsinki, and Associate Professor Ulf Mörkenstam, Stockholm University (for information and questions on the workshop).

 

Workshops

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• Citizenship as New Notions of Belonging and Identity