Sociology 269 Winter 2018 Professor Gershon Shafir Office: 494 SSB Class: SSB 101 M 12:00-2:50pm Office Hours: M 10:15am-12:00pm Soc 269: THE CITIZENSHIP DEBATES We will examine the liberal outlook on the construction of the modern citizen and the good society and its alternatives in the communitarian, social-democratic, nationalist, feminist, multiculturalist, and post-nationalist perspectives. We will pay special attention to US, British, and EU citizenship. Required readings: Gershon Shafir, editor, The Citizenship Debates: A Reader, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998. Judith N. Shklar, American Citizenship, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1991. Christian Joppke, Is Multiculturalism Dead? Crisis and Persistence in the Constitutional State, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2017. Ruud Koopmans et. al, eds. Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity In Europe, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir eds., People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap, N.Y., Routledge, 2004: Gershon Shafir," Citizenship and Human Rights in an Era of Globalization," pp.11-25 & Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir, "Conclusion: Globalizing Citizenship?" pp. 209-215 Week One: Introduction Week Two: Classical Citizenship Aristotle, The Politics, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1962, translated by T.A. Sinclair, pp,101-112, 269-274. J.G.A. Pocock, "The Ideal of Citizenship Since Classical Times," Queen's Quarterly, Vol.99, No.1, Spring 1992, pp.35-55, in Shafir, pp. 31-41. Max Weber, "Citizenship in Ancient and Medieval Cities," in his General Economic History, Rutgers UP, 1981, in Shafir, pp.43-49.
Ryan K. Balot, Revisiting the Classical Ideal of Citizenship, in Ayelet Shachar et.al eds., The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp.15-35. 2 Heater, Derek, A Brief History of Citizenship, N.Y., NYU Press, 2004. Collins, Susan D., Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 2006. Gorman, Daniel, Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006. Manville, Philip Brook, Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens, Princeton, Princeton UP, 2014. Week Three: Neo-Liberal Citizenship vs Community John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical," Philosophy and Public Affairs Vol.14, 1985, in Shafir, pp. 53-72. Adrian Oldfield, Citizenship and Community: Civic Republicanism and the Modern World, London, Routledge, 1990, in Shafir, pp.75-89. Iseult Honohan, Liberal and Republican Conceptions of Citizenship, in Ayelet Shachar et.al eds., The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp.83-105. Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993, especially pages 83-115. Week Four: Social Citizenship T.H. Marshall, "Citizenship and Social Class," in his Class, Citizenship, and Social Development, 1949, in Shafir, pp. 93-111. Nancy Fraser & Linda Gordon, "Contract Versus Charity: Why Is There No Social Citizenship in the United States?," Socialist Review, 92/2 Vol.22, No.3, pp.45-67, in Shafir, pp. 113-127. Michael Mann, "Ruling Class Strategies and Citizenship," Sociology, Vol.21, No.3, August 1987, pp.339-354.
Judith N. Shklar, American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1991. 3 Somers, Margaret R., Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, States, and the Right to Have Rights, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Gerhards, Jürgens & Holger Lengfeld, European Citizenship and Social Integration, NY., Routledge, 2015. Schierup, Carl-Ulrik et. al., Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State: A European Dilemma, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. Handler, Joel F, Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe: The Paradox of Inclusion, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. Week Five: Civic and Ethnic Citizenship Rogers Brubaker, "Immigration, Citizenship, and the Nation-State in France and Germany: A Comparative Historical Analysis," International Sociology, Vol.5, No.4, December 1990, pp. 131-164 in Shafir. Will Kymlicka, "Multicultural Citizenship and Minority Rights" in his Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp.167-188 in Shafir. Rogers Brubaker, The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany, and the United States, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 24, No.4, July 2001, pp. 531-548. Daniel Weinstock, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity, in Ayelet Shachar et.al eds., The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp.268-289. Christian Joppke, Is Multiculturalism Dead? Crisis and Persistence in the Constitutional State, Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, 2017. Habermas, Jürgen, "Citizenship and National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe," Praxis International, Vol.12, No.1, April 1992, pp.1-19. Nobles, Melissa, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000.
4 Bellamy, Richard et. al. eds. Lineages of European Citizenship: Rights, Belonging and Participation in Eleven Nation-States, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. John Rex, "The Political Sociology of a Multicultural Society, in Michael Dunne & Tiziano Bonazzi editors, Citizenship and Rights in Multicultural Societies, Keele, Keele University Press, 1995, pp.79-94. Week Six: Women's Citizenship: Equal or Separate Kathleen B, Jones, "Citizenship in a Woman-Friendly Polity," Signs, Vol.15, No.4, 1990 in Shafir, pp.221-247. Leti, Volpp, Feminist, Sexual, and Queer Citizenship, in Ayelet Shachar et.al eds., The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp.153-177. Iris M. Young, "Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship," Ethics, Vol.99, No.2, 1989, in Shafir, pp.263-290. Nitza Berkovitch, From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. Susan Moller Okin, "Women, Equality and Citizenship," Queens Quarterly, Vol.99, No.1, Spring 1992, pp.56-71. Ann Shola Orloff, "Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States," ASR, Vol.58, June 1993, pp.303-328. Julia S. O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff & Sheila Shaver, States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the U.S., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Nira Yuval-Davies, "The Citizenship Debate: Women, the State, and Ethnic Processes," Feminist Review, Vol.39, 1991, pp.58-68. Marilyn Friedman ed., Women and Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Week Seven: Universal Citizenship and Immigration 5 Yasmin Soysal, "Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe," Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 189-217 in Shafir. Yanni Kotsonis, "A European Experience: Human Rights and Citizenship in Revolutionary Russia," in Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Lynn Hunt & Marilyn B. Young editors, Human Rights and Revolutions, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. pp. 99-110. Ruud Koopmans et. al, eds. Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity In Europe, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Florence Bernault, "What Absence Is Made Of: Human Rights in Africa," in Wasserstrom et. al., pp.127-141. Timothy McDaniel, "The Strange Career of Radical Islam," in Wasserstrom et. al., pp.211-229. Gans, Chaim, Daniel, Citizenship and Nationhood, in Ayelet Shachar et.al eds., The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp.107-128. Aristide R. Zolberg, "Modes of Incorporation: Toward a Comparative Framework," in Bader, pp.139-154. Week Eight: Multiple Citizenships and Human Rights Michael Walzer, "The Idea of Civil Society," Dissent, Spring 1991, in Shafir, pp.291-308. Gershon Shafir," Citizenship and Human Rights in an Era of Globalization," pp.11-25 & Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir, "Conclusion: Globalizing Citizenship?" pp.209-215 in Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir editors, People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights and the Citizenship Gap, pp.1-25, 209-215. Michael Ignatieff et.al, Human Rights as Politics and as Idolatry, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001. Additional Meetings (dates TBD): presentation of paper outlines