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22 - Citizenship and Nationhood: From Antiquity to Gaia Citizenship

from Part III - Intersections: National(ist) Synergies and Tensions with Other Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Categories, Identities, and Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
Daniele Conversi
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Ideas of citizenship have changed considerably since the concept was first envisioned in classical antiquity (Greece and Rome). For a long time, it remained an uncertain and undefined area – so that, for instance, Aristotle saw no general agreement on a definition of citizenship.1 The citizenship laws of Athens distinguished between citizens, slaves, and non-slave residents (metics), including prosperous and affluent merchants.2 Eventually, the Citizenship Law introduced by Pericles (451 bce) extended the status of citizen to offspring whose parents were both Athenians.

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NationalismCitizenshipEthnicityClimate changeModernityAnthropoceneSovereignty
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 485 - 502
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Aktürk, Şener, Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brubaker, Rogers, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Conversi, Daniele, “Modernism and Nationalism,” Journal of Political Ideologies, 17/1 (2012), 13–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dobson, Andrew, and Bell, David (eds.), Environmental Citizenship (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).Google Scholar
Kymlicka, Will, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).Google Scholar
Latour, Bruno, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018).Google Scholar
Mandelbaum, Moran M., The Nation/State Fantasy: A Psychoanalytical Genealogy of Nationalism (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sassen, Saskia, Expulsions (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Tully, James, On Global Citizenship: James Tully in Dialogue (London: Bloomsbury, 2014).Google Scholar

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