Crafting Citizenship Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of acti

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Crafting Citizenship Negotiating Tensions in Modern Society By

Menno Hurenkamp University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Evelien Tonkens University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

and

Jan Willem Duyvendak University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

© Menno Hurenkamp, Evelien Tonkens and Jan Willem Duyvendak 2012 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-24154-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

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Contents

List of Tables and Figures

vi

Preface and Acknowledgments

vii

1 Society as a Productive Space

1

2 The Construction of Citizenship in Public Debate

19

3 The Delegitimation of Political Authority

42

4 Individualization and the Public Interest

64

5 Globalization and the Culturalization of Citizenship

89

6 The Three Freedoms of the Dutch: The Culturalization of Citizenship in the Netherlands Put into an International Perspective

122

7 Crafting Citiz