UCSD
Sociology 269 Professor Gershon Shafir
Class: M 9:00-12:00 Fall 2007
Soc 269:
THE CITIZENSHIP DEBATES
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.
Required readings:
Gershon Shafir, editor, The Citizenship Debates: A Reader, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Ruud Koopmans et. al, eds. Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity In Europe, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Michael Ignatieff et.al, Human Rights as Politics and as Idolatry, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001.
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.
Recommended:
Collins, Susan D., Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Gorman, Daniel, Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006.
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.
Recommended:
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.
Recommended:
Michael Mann, "Ruling Class Strategies and Citizenship," Sociology, Vol.21, No.3, August 1987, pp.339-354.
Margaret R. Sommers, "Citizenship and the Place of the Public Sphere: Law, Community, and Political Culture in the Transition to Democracy," ASR, Vol.58, October 1993, pp.587-620.
Heater, Derek Benjamin, Citizenship in Britain: A History, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Alexander Hicks, Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1999.
Evelyne Huber & John D. Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Schierup, Carl-Ulrik et. al., Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State: A European Dilemma, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Week Five: Political Participation in the U.S.
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.
Recommended:
Judith N. Shklar, American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1991.
Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals, Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997.
Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen, N.Y., Free Press, 1998.
Handler, Joel F, Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe: The Paradox of Inclusion, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Week Six: 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.
Recommended:
Jürgen Habermas, "Citizenship and National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe," Praxis International, Vol.12, No.1, April 1992, pp.1-19.
Melissa Nobles, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000.
Richard Bellamy et. al. eds., Lineages of European Citizenship: Rights, Belonging and Participation in Eleven Nation-States, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Week Seven: Culture and Citizenship
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.
Ruud Koopmans et. al, eds. Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity In Europe, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Recommended:
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.
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.
Volkmar Götz, "Multiculturalism and Constitutional Values in Germany," in Dunne & Bonazzi, pp.115-125.
Guy Scoffoni, "Constitutional Equality and the Anti-Discrimination Principle in France: The French System in Comparative Perspective, in Dunne & Bonazzi pp.127-140.
Robert Schmuhl, "America and Multiculturalism," in Dunne & Bonazzi, pp.141-151.
Stephen Castles, "Multicultural Citizenship: The Australian Experience," in Veit Bader editor, Citizenship and Exclusion, London, Macmillan, 1997, pp.113-138.
Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logic of Transnationality, Durham, Duke University Press, 1999.
Tariq Modood et. al. Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach, New York, NY : Routledge, 2006.
Week Eight: 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.
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.
Recommended:
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 Nine: Universal Citizenship and Immigration
Yasmin Soysal, "Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe," Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 189-217 in Shafir.
Michael Ignatieff et.al, Human Rights as Politics and as Idolatry, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2001.
Recommended:
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.
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.
Aristide R. Zolberg, "Modes of Incorporation: Toward a Comparative Framework," in Bader, pp.139-154.
Sor-hoon Tan ed., Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age, Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2005.
Week Ten: Multiple Citizenships
Michael Walzer, "The Idea of Civil Society," in Dissent, Spring 1991, in Shafir, pp.291-308.
Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir editors, People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights and the Citizenship Gap, pp.1-25, 209-215.