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Cultural citizenship
Eurozine Editorial

Cultural citizenship

introduction

Editorial The concept of cultural citizenship responds to the multicultural context of contemporary societies, in which the concern with equality is increasingly being complemented with a concern with difference. Eurozine groups together texts articulating issues central to the concept. [ more ]

30.06.2007
Gerard Delanty

Citizenship as a learning process

Disciplinary citizenship versus cultural citizenship

cultural citizenship In the dominant liberal discourse on citizenship, learning processes have tended to be reduced to citizenship classes. Gerard Delanty outlines a concept of citizenship that, rather than merely demanding cognitive competence, has a developmental and transformative impact on the subject. [ more ]

30.06.2007
 
Rainer Bauböck

Who are the citizens of Europe?

defining citizenship Current citizenship laws in the European Union vary dramatically. The tension between freedom of movement and national legislation on citizenship has the potential to create serious conflicts, writes Rainer Bauböck. [ more ]

23.12.2006
Ivaylo Ditchev

Mobile citizenship?

migration The "new mobility" implies new freedoms as well as new privations. The biographies of Bulgarian migrants reveal how the horizon of departure has become a basic dimension of the world. Mobility, writes Ivaylo Ditchev, will need to be taken more seriously in the anthropology of citizenship. [ more ]

27.06.2008
Ivaylo Ditchev

Utopia of freedom or reality of submission?

fluid citizenship Large sections of the populations of countries at the peripheries of the EU are in permanent migratory motion. The trend towards overcoming arbitrary socio-political territories has its apotheosis in the Internet's utopian horizon of absolute mobility. [French and German versions added] [ more ]

15.02.2006
 
António Sousa Ribeiro

The reason of borders or a border reason?

Translation as a metaphor for our times

translation How does translation affect and change our notions of multiculturalism and cultural identity? [ more ]

08.01.2004
Rada Ivekovic

Transborder translating

trans-border translation Translation is a form of resistance, but also "the original mother tongue of humankind". With a broad interpretaion of the concept of translation, Rada Ivekovic looks at the principles, concepts, and symbolic values of borders and boundaries. [ more ]

14.01.2005
Edouard Glissant

The necessary relation between here and there

borders "The border is an invitation to enjoy difference: it makes a pleasure of variety. When necessity and misery force people to violate borders, then that's just as scandalous as the reasons for their misery." [ more ]

20.10.2006
 
Charles Taylor

Democratic exclusion - and its consequences

exclusion Democracy as a political model demands, more than anything else, inclusion. However it also contains a dynamic of exclusion. Charles Taylor asks how this tendency can be counteracted. [ more ]

21.02.2002
Leonardo Avritzer, Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Towards widening the democratic canon

participation Social movements are emancipatory in so far as they seek alternatives to conditions imposed by states and economic conditions. Moreover, they redefine more inclusive social identities and act as truly transnational democratic units. [ more ]

03.11.2003
Axel Honneth

Justice and communicative freedom. Thoughts in connection to Hegel

recognition Rather than the redistribution of resources, social justice depends on recognition, for which Axel Honneth identifies three forms: emotional concern, moral respect, and social esteem. [ more ]

17.01.2007
Axel Honneth, Krassimir Stojanov

Racism as a defect of socialization

Axel Honneth in interview

recognition The recognition paradigm is indispensable to an understanding of the origins of racism and to the education of young offenders. [ more ]

17.01.2007
 
Per Wirtén

Free the nation - cosmopolitanism now!

cosmopolitanism "Cosmopolite" was once a pejorative code word used to denounce Jews, anarchists, pacifists and others who refused to accept the call for fixed borders coming from the nation-states. Now, in another historic turning-point, cosmopolitanism is coming back. [ more ]

22.11.2002
José Manuel Pureza

Towards a post-Westphalian Internationalism

internationalism 150 years after the publication of Marx & Engels' Manifesto of the Communist Party, Pureza takes a look at the shortcomings and disunities that have emerged in the internationalist legacy it stands for. [ more ]

26.04.2002
 

More focal points

Olympic indifference
The Beijing Olympics 2008 are unusual insofar as not one country has boycotted them. This, despite the fact that the political dimension of the Games has seldom been more controversial. Are we seeing a new kind of "Olympic indifference"? With this in mind, Eurozine compiles articles on sport, politics, and protest. [ more ]

Shared space, divided society
Migration is part of modern society, meaning more and more people of different ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds live together in Europe. The multitude of perspectives and experiences represents an enormous resource, but as cultural conflicts inherent in today's urban societies become visible, doubts are also raised about the value of diversity. [ more ]

1968: Beyond soixante-huite
Forty years on, the differences between the 1968 uprisings in western and eastern Europe move into ever sharper focus. "In retrospect, the great event of '68 in Europe was not Paris, but Prague. But we were unable to see this at the time." Including articles on '68 in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, France and West Germany. [ more ]

Illiberal Europe?
Parliament or the soapbox? Populist politics are enjoying renewed success in Europe, above all in the former socialist countries. Ivan Krastev, G.M.Tamás, Ralf Dahrendorf, Jacques Rupnik and others investigate the rise of "democratic illiberalism". [ more ]

Decentring Europe
Any reinvention of the concept of Europe that takes into account the complexities inherent in Europe's place in a globalized world must contain a critique of Eurocentrism. Learning from the South, i.e. absorbing the full critical impact of alternative approaches may be a key element in the rethinking – and unthinking – of "Europe". [ more ]

The future of war
Are wars that are fought between nations a thing of the past, and are the future challenges more a case of ethnic strife, break-up of failed states, secession and civil wars? In a special focal point, Eurozine analyzes the changing face of warfare in the twenty-first century, in which terrorism and new security threats have profoundly transformed the way wars are conducted. [ more ]

The city as stage for social upheaval
From the western European city to the Third World megacity, one is able to observe how a single principle asserts itself in the social structure of the urban space. That principle – privatization – is geared towards the concentration of wealth and assets on an increasingly global scale, a manoeuvre its beneficiaries seek to naturalize. [ more ]

Big Brother goes global
Post 9/11, governments are increasingly tailoring "international standards" to ratify domestic policies that intrude on civil liberties. Welcome to the phenomenon of "policy laundering". [ more ]

Changing Europe
As political Europe turns 50, the questions about its future are as open as ever. A special focus featuring some of Eurozine's most outstanding contributions on the European project: From analyses of the current crisis to a hilarious parody of Brussels' literary ambitions. [ more ]

Post-secular Europe?
Is religion a public or a private matter? Can there be such a thing as a European Islam? If so, what characterizes it? What role can religion – or religions – play when it comes to the emergence of a European solidarity? [ more ]

European histories: Towards a grand narrative?
In order for there to be solidarity within the enlarged EU, it will be necessary to develop a broader historical consciousness that includes both western and eastern experiences. [ more ]

Europe talks to Europe: Towards a European public sphere?
The European integration project has made the discussion about transnational spaces for cultural and political debate acute. Can there at all be a common Europe without a pan-European public sphere? [ more ]

Politics of border making and (cross-)border identities
Have borders become irrelevant with the project of a united Europe? No, just the opposite. On the dilemmas of border building and cross-border cooperation in the EU and its neighbourhood. [ more ]

Documenta 12 magazines
Eurozine is participating in the Documenta 12 magazines project, which links over 90 print and on-line periodicals worldwide. Read Eurozine's contributions to the documenta leitmotifs "Modernity" and "Bare Life" here.[ more ]

Freedom of speech and the Danish cartoon controversy
Free speech is a fundamental human right and a central tenet of democracy. Or is it? Reactions to the Danish cartoon controversy show that liberals are re-evaluating what the right to free speech entails. [ more ]

Politics of translation
Translation today is as much about the translation of cultural, political, and historical contexts and concepts as it is about language. [ more ]

 

Conferences

Changing places (What's normal anyway?)
The 20th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Sibiu, 21-24 October 2007

Under the heading "Changing places (What's normal anyway?)", the Eurozine network conference 2007 in Sibiu, Romania, addressed the challenges facing societies, literature, and the media as the need for change meets the urge for normality. Read the conference texts here. [ more ]

Friend and foe. Shared space, divided society
The 19th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
London, 27-30 October 2006

Speakers at the 19th European Meeting of Cultural Journals opened up the discussion on cultural diversity in two directions: first, as it is experienced in the physical urban space, and second, as it is reflected in the mirror of the media. [ more ]

Neighbourhoods
The 18th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Istanbul, 4-7 November 2005

Contributions on the notion of neighbourhood and the Turkey-Europe question from a range of intellectual and geographic perspectives. [ more ]

 

Focal points

Climate of change?

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/ecopolitics.html
Green turnaround or business as usual in the global hothouse? Debating the politics of climate change. [more]

Dilemma 89

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/dilemma89.html
1989: not only historic moment of liberation, but also political and social dilemma for the present day. [more]

European histories

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/eurohistories.html
European solidarity requires a common history that accommodates the experiences of East and West. [more]

Editor's choice

Anders Ramsay
Marx? Which Marx?

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-12-21-ramsay-en.html
Marx's naturalistic understanding of value has led interpreters to overlook the role played by credit, writes Anders Ramsay. [more]

Ewa Hess, Hennric Jokeit
Neurocapitalism

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-11-24-jokeit-en.html
In a society that confronts the self with its own shortcomings, neuroscience serves an expanding market. [more]

Zoltan Tabori
Guns, fire and ditches

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-12-15-tabori-en.html
On the spiral of anti-Roma violence in small communities facing increasing competition for employment and education. [more]

Literature

Katharina Raabe
As the fog lifted

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-10-08-raabe-en.html
In the twenty years since the fall of communism, literature has been lifting the fog settled over eastern central Europe. [more]

Literary perspectives
The re-transnationalization of literary criticism

Eurozine's series of essays aims to provide an overview of diverse literary landscapes in Europe. Covered as yet: Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. [more]

Behind the headlines

Memorial
National images of the past

http://www.eurozine.com/2008-12-05-memorial-en.html
An appeal by the winners of the Sakharov Prize 2009 for a platform for historical reconciliation. [more]

Mykola Riabchuk
Metaphors of betrayal

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-10-14-riabchuk-en.html
Any policy towards the Ukraine-Russia conflict that downplays values is fundamentally flawed, writes Mykola Riabchuk. [more]

Conferences

Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since that time, a variety of European cultural magazines have met once a year in European cities to exchange ideas and experiences. In the meantime, approximately 100 periodicals from almost every European country have become involved in these meetings.
European histories
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Vilnius, 8-11 May 2009

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/vilnius_european_histories.html
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, 8 to 11 May 2009. Under the heading "European Histories", the Eurozine conference explored the role of history and memory in forming new identities in a Europe in change. [more]

Multimedia

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/multimedia.html
Multimedia section including videos of past Eurozine conferences in Vilnius (2009) and Sibiu (2007). [more]


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