Cultural Identity and Civic Responsibility

Waldron, J T

doi:10.1093/019829770x.003.0006

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“…It will become evident that the two competing poles of the cultural and the civic jockey for position contingently and temporally in the ways that young people construct and use their identities (Waldron, 2000;Stevick and Levinson, 2007;Ichilov, 2005). This cultural-civic distinction also helps in understanding the ways in which otherness is constructed in the feeling of an identity.…”

Section: Guiding Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Balkan and European? Place Identifications of Young People in Croatia

Ross

Puzić

Doolan

2017

revsoc

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The article analyses how young people in Croatia conceptualise their identities in terms of "place identifications", a type of social identification that captures membership of a group of people who are defined by their location. It is based on focus group discussions conducted with 68 elementary and secondary school students aged between 11 and 17 in three urban localities in Croatia: Rijeka, Zagreb and Zadar. The concepts guiding the analysis included place identifications, the civic and cultural components of national identity and intersectionality. The study found that students displayed a strong identification with the region they are from through a discourse of stereotypes along the coastal-inland, rural-urban and north-south distinctions. National cultural identities and liminal European-Balkan identities were equally strong providing interesting examples of inclusion and othering. The young people showed a sense of aspiring to be European, of feeling almost European, of being not-quite-yet European, of being "Balkan". There was a common sense of the Balkan-European divide being a line that stood very slightly to the north-west of wherever the students happened to be: there was Europe, generally beckoning -but they were on a threshold and still leaning towards the Balkan side, described as impolite, quarrelsome, underdeveloped and littered. The study suggests complex and kaleidoscopic identity constructions of young people in Croatia in which different and even opposed elements do not exclude each other but rather coexist in various ways.

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Section: Guiding Conceptsmentioning

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Balkan and European? Place Identifications of Young People in Croatia

Ross

Puzić

Doolan

2017

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“…That is why the public area makes room for justice, good education, infrastructure for public health and mobility. Moreover, any citizen is supposed to participate to the public area according to citizens responsibility (Waldron, 2000).…”

Section: Modern Management Of Public Space In Western Communitiesmentioning

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From Citizen to Cytizen. How to Escape from Cyberstates?

Verstraeten

2017

IJSSS

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The Modern Western state is characterized by unmediated individual access to wellness, health, safety and liberal human rights. The Newtonian conception of space and time makes formal room for a discursive public area with the citizen and the public institutes in the margin, while participation and ethical responsibility is a prejudice of good citizenship. It is a necessary condition of consistency and coherence of the nation. To date, global migration and multiculturalism threaten those necessary basic conditions of Western states´ political equilibrium. To challenge the actual global phenomena national states transform into virtual places of fear dominated by cybernetics, digital bureaucracy while citizen's identity is mirrored by the efficiency and unisexual beauty ideal of cyborgs. The substantive conception of technology is government's tool box to realize the cyberstate while citizen reduce to "cytizen".In order to escape from this global grey, we propose a different conception of space and time namely the Leibnizian conception of pluralistic independent participating worlds. Moreover, we modify Leopold's Land-Ethics by introducing the transpersonal identification claim of Warwick Fox inside the common Land so-called eco-homeland while the care for the foreigner serves as paradigmatic core attitude to all participants of the eco-homeland. So we constitute a common eco-refuge, similar to the ideas of Bookchinś eco-anarchistic ideas but avoiding his dialectic ideal conception of the Land and its participants.

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“…Instead of depending on pre-existing shared fundamental understandings and beliefs, the political and legal community will arise, on this account, out of the necessity to live together and to deal with difference and disagreement. 54 In the European context, several writers have emphasised the heterogeneous and pluralist nature of the European identity and community. 55 This is also what flows from Jürgen Habermas' 'constitutional patriotism'.…”

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confidence: 99%

From European Integration to European Integrity: Should European Law Speak with Just One Voice?

Besson

2004

European Law Journal

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This article examines whether and how the moral principle of legal coherence or integrity, which has recently been developed further as a response to disagreement in the national legal context, applies to European law. According to the European integrity principle, all national and European authorities should make sure their decisions cohere with the past decisions of other European and national authorities that create and implement the law of a complex but single European legal order. Only by doing so, it is argued, can the European political and legal community gain true authority and legitimacy in the eyes of the European citizens to whom all these decisions apply. Although European integrity is primarily a product of European integration, it has gradually become one of the requirements of further integration. The article suggests that the principle of European integrity would help dealing with the growing pressure for common European solutions under conditions of increasing diversity. It places disagreement at the centre of European politics, as both an incentive and a means of integration by way of comparison and self-reflectivity. It constitutes therefore the ideal instrument for a pluralist and flexible further constitutionalisation of the European Union.'Leges sunt inventae quae cum omnibus semper una atque eadem voce loquerentur'.

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Cultural Identity and Civic Responsibility

Cited by 65 publications

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Balkan and European? Place Identifications of Young People in Croatia

Balkan and European? Place Identifications of Young People in Croatia

From Citizen to Cytizen. How to Escape from Cyberstates?

From European Integration to European Integrity: Should European Law Speak with Just One Voice?

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