from IV - Civil Society: The Roots and Processes of Political Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
Citizenship theory in the social sciences has a rich history with Karl Marx (1978: 40, 179) and Max Weber (1981), but since the new millennium, it has greatly expanded in its conceptual breadth and use. The new century ushered in a deluge of fresh research that has deployed “citizenship” to conceptualize all kinds of social movements and political theoretical works that incorporate multiculturalism. The term now appears to be “omnirelevant” with “almost universal appeal,” thus becoming a “universal feature of the modern state” (Jensen 2001: 23; Isin 2015: 263; Cohen 2009: 13). Evelyn Nakano Glenn made it the president’s theme for the American Sociological Association convention in 2010 (2011). Nearly any movement seeking to promote equality for gender, racial, or ethnic groups now uses a citizenship framework to advance their work.
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