Citizenship and Collective Identity in Europe

by Karolewski; Ireneusz Pawel

• ISBN13: 9780415496582
• ISBN10: 0415496586
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is the first monograph to systematically explore the relationship between citizenship and collective identity in the European Union, integrating two fields of research - citizenship and collective identity.

Author Biography

Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Potsdam, Germany. His most recent publications include, as co-editor, nationalism and European Integration; Nationalism in Contemporary Europe and Nation and Nationalism: Political and Historical Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The conceptual dimension of citizenship	p. 7
The semantic core of citizenship	p. 8
The relationship between the components of citizenship	p. 14
Citizenship-collective identity nexus	p. 20
Collective identity and its functions	p. 23
Cognitive function of collective identity	p. 24
Self esteem booster function	p. 27
Political junctions of collective identity	p. 33
Recapitulation	p. 43
The debate on European identity in the functional perspective	p. 45
Cognitive function and European identity	p. 46
Self-esteem booster function and European identity	p. 54
Political functions of European identity	p. 62
Recapitulation	p. 70
Reconceptualizing the citizenship-collective identity nexus	p. 72
Deficits of the functional approaches to collective identity	p. 72
Framing the argument	p. 82
Recapitulation	p. 105
European citizenship and European collective identity	p. 107
The development of European citizenship	p. 107
Republican citizenship and the pathologies of deliberation	p. 110
Liberal citizenship and European identity through rights	p. 127
Caesarean citizenship and the European politics of insecurity	p. 143
Recapitulation	p. 164
Conclusions: citizenship and collective identity in Europe	p. 167
Notes	p. 180
Index	p. 248
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