Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances

Cambridge University Press, 8/2/2007
EAN 9780521867191, ISBN10: 0521867193

Hardcover, 438 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm
Language: English

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.

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.