Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances
Understanding Political Identity in a Globalizing World
Ian Shapiro editor Seyla Benhabib editor Danilo Petranovich editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:2nd Aug '07
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This book explores the origins and transformations of political identities, examining their impact on contemporary political life and membership dynamics.
In Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances, leading political and social theorists delve into the origins and transformations of political identities in our rapidly changing world. This exploration is particularly timely as the nation-state undergoes significant transformations, and the definitions of citizenship evolve in unprecedented ways. The book addresses critical questions: Where do political identities originate? How do they shift over time? What implications do these changes have for political life?
The essays within this volume highlight the diverse contexts in which political identities are formed and reformed, including the evolving dynamics of the European Union, the Balkans, and other emerging democracies post-1989. Scholars examine the complexities of citizenship and cultural identity in the modern West, emphasizing how local, regional, transnational, cosmopolitan, and even imperial configurations are reshaping individuals' interests and identities.
Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances is essential reading for anyone interested in the intellectual and political discussions surrounding membership and attachment in contemporary society. It offers insights relevant to students and scholars across social sciences, humanities, and law, providing a comprehensive understanding of the changing landscape of political affiliation and identity in today's globalized world.
'Political membership centered in nation-states is making room for other affiliations and allegiances. These are shaping novel assemblages of interests and identities with local, regional, transnational, and even imperial geographies. Can these become stable meanings and gain the power historically associated with national citizenship? The essays in this extraordinary collection map complexities rather than easy answers. They leave few established propositions untouched.' Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago and author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
'Identities, affiliations and allegiances ignite passions - especially when the borders they define - territorial or otherwise - are transgressed. Their analysis, when done well, ignites similar passions in the battle fields of academia where identities, affiliations and allegiances are as entrenched and uncomfortably account for normative and cognitive boundaries. This volume, rich and provocative, will ignite strong passions.' J. H. H Weiler, Global Law School, New York University
'An exemplary demonstration of the creative benefits of collaboration between normative theorists and social scientists on a vital subject of growing concern world-wide. Its special strength is to lift issues of citizenship, immigration and ethnicity out of their specialized niches and reconsider them in the context of what one of the contributors properly characterizes as a 'PostWestphalian World.' Deserving a wide readership in philosophy, political science, sociology, and international affairs, this book will undoubtedly stimulate a reconceptualization of the entire field.' Aristide R. Zolberg, New School for Social Research
ISBN: 9780521867191
Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 26mm
Weight: 810g
438 pages