Citizenship as cultural: Towards a theory of cultural citizenship |
| |
Authors: | Jean Beaman |
| |
Institution: | Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
| |
Abstract: | Traditional notions of citizenship have focused on formal membership, including access to rights, in a national community. More recent scholarship has expanded this definition beyond citizenship as a legal status to focus on struggles for societal inclusion of and justice for marginalized populations, citizenship as both a social and symbolic boundary of exclusion, and post‐colonial and post‐national citizenship. In this article, I review conceptions of citizenship that involve more than legal rights. After reviewing this scholarship, I discuss the theoretical framework of cultural citizenship – a move to center the cultural underpinnings of modern citizenship in analyses of citizenship as a boundary of inclusion and exclusion. I use the example of France as one site to locate the connections between citizenship and culture and the cultural underpinnings and implications of citizenship more broadly. |
| |
Keywords: | culture subjects citizenship immigration |
|
|