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 Free Download Cherry James, "Citizenship, Nation-building and Identity in the EU: The Contribution of Erasmus Student Mobility" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138479748 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.5 mb With Brexit looming, a major issue facing UK Higher Education is whether the UK will be able to stay in the Erasmus Programme. This book sits at the intersection of three main interrelated themes - EU citizenship, the current state of the university in Europe, and student mobility - as they play out in the context of an EU funded programme established not least to promote European identity, European consciousness and European citizenship.  Free Download Zarina Patel, Zahid Rajan, "Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Kenya" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0995347476 | EPUB | pages: 158 | 0.5 mb At the turn of the twentieth century, the print media in India was highly developed and very active in the country's liberation struggle. Hence South Asian migrants who came to Kenya were well aware of the importance of the press in advancing the anti-colonial campaign. The first Indian-owned newspaper in Kenya was the African Standard which Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee established in 1901 in his fight for equal rights. That paper continues to serve Kenyans today as The Standard.  Free Download Andrew Dobson, "Citizenship, Environment, Economy (Environmental Politics)" English | 2005 | ISBN: 0415366720 | EPUB | pages: 170 | 0.2 mb As governments around the world grapple with the challenge of delivering environmental sustainability, attention has recently focused on the role that citizens should play in meeting the challenge. In advanced industrial countries such as ours, which operate in the political framework of liberal capitalism, what relevance can we place on 'environmental citizenship'?  Free Download Jo Shaw, Igor Štiks, "Citizenship after Yugoslavia" English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138945137 | EPUB | pages: 168 | 0.6 mb This book is the first comprehensive examination of the citizenship regimes of the new states that emerged out of the break up of Yugoslavia. It covers both the states that emerged out of the initial disintegration across 1991 and 1992 (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Macedonia), as well as those that have been formed recently through subsequent partitions (Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo). While citizenship has often been used as a tool of ethnic engineering to reinforce the position of the titular majority in many states, in other cases citizenship laws and practices have been liberalised as part of a wider political settlement intended to include minority communities more effectively in the political process. Meanwhile, frequent (re)definitions of these increasingly overlapping regimes still provoke conflicts among post-Yugoslav states.  Free Download Andre Carrel, "Citizens' Hall: Making Local Democracy Work" English | 2001 | ISBN: 1896357423 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.7 mb Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy-for turning what are now "colonies" of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic entities. For Carrel, the citizen is the sole legitimate source of political power, and the best tool for citizen empowerment is the controversial tool of the referendum. This is the story of how a small municipality broke the rules of local government. It also recounts the author's irreverence for the status quo and his ideas on the rebuilding of citizenship at the community level.
 Free Download Lorenzo Fioramonti, "Citizens vs. Markets: How Civil Society is Rethinking the Economy in a Time of Crises" English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415721652, 0415830168 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 0.7 mb After an apparent temporary relief, the financial crisis is back full steam. The 'double dip' has turned into a full-blown meltdown of financial markets, public budgets and, by and large, democratic accountability. This global crisis is a fundamental wake-up call: a signal that our conventional political economy and, perhaps, the very foundations of our societies need a serious rethink. Currently, the spotlight is on the role of political elites and economic agents (especially the investors included in the vague notion of 'markets') and their strategies to stabilize or destabilize countries, from North America to the Eurozone. Regrettably, the actual and potential role of civil society is hardly mentioned in public debate. Yet, it is exactly within civil society that important responses to the crisis may emerge. It is within civil society that an alternative paradigm and a fundamental rethinking of conventional wisdom may be fostered. Citizens vs. Markets is the first book to unpack the transformative role of civil society in a sector in which it has traditionally been less proactive, in order to reflect on possible forms of social transformation that are not merely remedial but also constructive in nature. This is the most important struggle of our times.  Free Download Zeyno Baran, "Citizen Islam: The Future of Muslim Integration in the West" English | 2011 | ISBN: 1441112480 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.7 mb Since September 11, Western governments have legitimized and empowered "nonviolent Islamists" as representatives of Islam for all Muslims in the West, an approach that has worried Muslim moderates. Citizen Islam addresses the implications of this approach.  Free Download Sumona Dasgupta, "Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement: Experiences from India" English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138664952 | EPUB | pages: 206 | 0.6 mb This book looks at a series of citizen-led campaigns to provide information about and energise the institutions of local self-governance in India following the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts. Staggering in their outreach and magnitude, the campaigns, popularly known as PEVACs (Pre-election Voters' Awareness Campaigns), reached out to huge swathes of the population, particularly in rural India, through a unique network that incorporated civil-society organisations across the country, the media and the State Election Commission itself. The book journeys through the heat and dust of these extraordinary campaigns, drawing from a repertoire of field reports and interviews to reflect on the significance of this 'experiment' on deepening democracy in India. In particular, it analyses the methodology of the campaigns and posits that this itself became an extraordinary exercise in democratic practice, indicating the shape that deliberation and dialogic practices could actually take on the field. As the campaigns moved from district to district, through their street plays, posters, pamphlets, jagrut yatras, candidate-voter dialogues, rehearsals of voting procedures, setting up of information booths, and participatory workshops for newly elected representatives, a new dialogical experiment was born and shaped. By examining these campaigns, this book emphasises the idea that governance is not just the business of central (federal) governments but also of citizens outside the formal institutions of governance, without whose active participation democracy cannot be deepened.  Free Download Cormac Behan, "Citizen Convicts: Prisoners, Politics and the Vote" English | 2014 | ISBN: 0719088380 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.7 mb Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in twenty-first-century democracies. It is at the intersection of punishment and representative government. Many jurisdictions remain divided on whether or not prisoners should be allowed access to the franchise. This book investigates the experience of prisoner enfranchisement in the Republic of Ireland. It examines the issue in a comparative context, beginning by locating prisoner enfranchisement in a theoretical framework, exploring the arguments for and against allowing prisoners to vote. Drawing on global developments in jurisprudence and penal policy, it examines the background to, and wider significance of, this change in the law.  Free Download John Gaventa, Rosemary McGee, Rabéa Naciri, "Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen" English | 2010 | ISBN: 1848133863 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.5 mb How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories? |
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