This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores p…
Contributors from a range of disciplines discuss the evolving meaning of citizenship, and the possible future of a global "citizenship by voluntary association."The ongoing expansion in the field of citizenship studies is one of the most important and remarkable recent trends in social sciences and humanities research. Some scholars raise questions about citizenship within a larger critique of …
"Explores the collection of children's biometric, educational, and social media data and its immediate and downstream effects for individuals and families"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and economic opportunity finds that technology use matters in wages and income and civic participation and voting.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders rather than by "the people" within a fixed jurisdiction.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"In the contemporary Middle East, genetics research on ethnic populations is changing the way groups understand and imagine their ethnic identities and places of belonging"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Includes index.How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This book explores how culture and citizenship are theorised, promoted and learned throughout schools in Wales. Following a brief history of Welsh education and a discussion of how contemporary cultural identity is theorised through citizenship education curricula, it illustrates how archaicapproaches to understanding cultural identity continue to undermine the development of culturally relevan…