[PDF] Governing Affective Citizenship eBook

Author : Marie Beauchamps
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178660678X

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This book investigates politics of denaturalisation as a system of thought that influences seminal cultural political values, such as community, nationality, citizenship, selfhood and otherness. The context of the analysis is the politics of citizenship and nationality in France. Combining research insights from history, legal studies, security studies, and border studies, the book demonstrates that the language of denaturalisation shapes national identity as a form of formal legal attachment but also, and more counter-intuitively, as a mode of emotional belonging. As such, denaturalisation operates as an instrumental frame to maintain and secure the national community. Going back to eighteenth-century France and to both World Wars, periods during which governments deployed denaturalisation as a technology against “threatening” subjects, the analysis exposes how the language of denaturalisation interweaves concerns about immigration and national security. It is this historical backdrop that helps understand the political impact of denaturalisation in contemporary counterterrorism politics, and what is at stake when borders and identities become affective technologies.

Author : Eleanor Jupp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317144589

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What is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the emergence of an emotional turn in human geography over the last decade, the notion that our emotions matter in understanding an array of social practices, spatial formations and aspects of everyday life is no longer seen as controversial. This book brings recent developments in emotional geography into dialogue with social policy concerns and contemporary issues of governance. It sets the intellectual scene for research into the geographical dimensions of the emotionalized states of the citizen, policy maker and public service worker, and highlights new research on the emotional forms of governance which now characterise public life. An international range of empirical field studies are used to examine issues of regulation, modification, governance and potential manipulation of emotional affects, professional and personal identities and political technologies. Contributors provide analysis of the role of emotional entanglements in policy strategy, policy implementation, service delivery, citizenship and participation as well as considering the emotional nature of the research process itself. It will be of interest to researchers and students within social policy, human geography, politics and related disciplines.

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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2015
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"This dissertation deals with the prominence and promise of the communitarian citizen in current neighbourhood governance in the Netherlands in general, and Slotermeer in particular. I start from the proposition that communitarian citizens matter a great deal in Dutch national and local neighbourhood policies aimed at neighbourhood regeneration. The communitarian citizenship ideal implies a transformation in the way citizens are perceived by governments: no longer as rational, individual and calculative subjects but more prominently as affective subjects in search of attachments to something common. I explore the background to this shift as well as its implications for the relationship between citizens and governments. More specifically, I show how this shift has a profound effect on the way citizenship is enacted by governance actors in deprived urban neighbourhoods, how it influences the type of policies designed by national and local governments, the professional practices of policy practitioners who implement these policies and the opportunities for residents to become engaged in their living environment. It influences who feels heard, acknowledged and included and who does not, and, as such, has an effect on the empowerment of some, the feelings of exclusion of others and the sense of belonging of all who are subject to this type of governance."--Samenvatting auteur.

Author : Richard Bellamy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192802534

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Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.

Author : Jan Slaby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351039245

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Affect and emotion have come to dominate discourse on social and political life in the mobile and networked societies of the early 21st century. This volume introduces a unique collection of essential concepts for theorizing and empirically investigating societies as Affective Societies. The concepts promote insights into the affective foundations of social coexistence and are indispensable to comprehend the many areas of conflict linked to emotion such as migration, political populism, or local and global inequalities. Adhering to an instructive narrative, Affective Societies provides historical orientation; detailed explication of the concept in question, clear-cut research examples, and an outlook at the end of each chapter. Presenting interdisciplinary research from scholars within the Collaborative Research Center "Affective Societies," this insightful monograph will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as affect and emotion, anthropology, cultural studies, and media studies.

Author : Tendayi Bloom
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1526156407

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When a person is not recognised as a citizen anywhere, they are typically referred to as ‘stateless’. This can give rise to challenges both for individuals and for the institutions that try to govern them. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship breaks from tradition by relocating the ‘problem’ to be addressed from one of statelessness to one of citizenship. It problematises the governance of citizenship – and the use of citizenship as a governance tool – and traces the ‘problem of citizenship’ from global and regional governance mechanisms to national and even individual levels. With contributions from activists, affected persons, artists, lawyers, academics, and national and international policy experts, this volume rejects the idea that statelessness and stateless persons are a problem. It argues that the reality of statelessness helps to uncover a more fundamental challenge: the problem of citizenship.

Author : Otto Penz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1351212419

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Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe towards affective forms of dominance exercised by customer-oriented neo-bureaucracies and public service providers. By investigating the rise of affective labour in contemporary European service societies and the conversion of state administrations into business-like public services, the authors trace the transformative power of neoliberal political thought as it is put into practice. The book examines new affective modes of subjectivation and activation of public employees, as well as their embodiment of affective requirements, to successfully guide and advise citizens. Neoliberalism induces a double agency in neo-bureaucrats: entrepreneurialism is coupled with affective skills for the purpose of governing clients in their own best interests. These competences are unevenly distributed between the genders, as their affective dispositions differ historically. Drawing on the theoretical concepts of Foucault and Bourdieu, the book offers innovative insights into recent processes of state transformation, affective subjectivation, and changes in labour relations. By combining theory building on governance with empirical research in key areas of state power, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in a broad range of disciplines, including political science, political sociology, and critical governance studies.

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674728297

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How can we achieve and sustain a "decent" liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a continuation of her explorations of emotions and the nature of social justice, Martha Nussbaum makes the case for love. Amid the fears, resentments, and competitive concerns that are endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love—in intense attachments to things outside our control—can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy. Great democratic leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., have understood the importance of cultivating emotions. But people attached to liberalism sometimes assume that a theory of public sentiments would run afoul of commitments to freedom and autonomy. Calling into question this perspective, Nussbaum investigates historical proposals for a public "civil religion" or "religion of humanity" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill, and Rabindranath Tagore. She offers an account of how a decent society can use resources inherent in human psychology, while limiting the damage done by the darker side of our personalities. And finally she explores the cultivation of emotions that support justice in examples drawn from literature, song, political rhetoric, festivals, memorials, and even the design of public parks. "Love is what gives respect for humanity its life," Nussbaum writes, "making it more than a shell." Political Emotionsis a challenging and ambitious contribution to political philosophy.

Author : Rebecca Kingston
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1442645520

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Emotions, Community, and Citizenship is a pioneering work that brings together scholars from an array of disciplines in order to challenge and unite the disciplinary divides in the study of emotions.

Author : Eva Cherniavsky
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1479893579

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