The Citizen's Charter and Radical Democracy: Empowerment and Exclusion Within Citizenship Discourse

Cooper, Davina

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“…19. An ambiguity poignantly captured by Cooper (1993) who traces the Major government's Citizen's Charter foray into the traditionally 'socialist' terrain of rights to welfare provision and public services. Cooper's article helps to illustrate the indeterminacy of rights discourse and its ambiguous articulation with the politics of citizenship.…”

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Identity versus Citizenship: Transformations in the Discourses and Practices of Citizenship

Purvis

Hunt

1999

Social & Legal Studies

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The recent surge of theoretical interest in citizenship has been shaped in important ways by a growing sensitivity to the politics of identity. Citizenship, conceived as a matrix of rights and obligations governing the members of a political community, exists in tension with the heterogeneity of social life and the multiple identities that arise therefrom. This tension expresses itself in the clash between the 'universal' citizen and numerous dispersed identities of which citizenship is but one. Citizens share the rights and obligations arising from that status, and the concept of 'equality' arising from this shared status has very real implications for the politics of identity, since citizenship has traditionally claimed priority over other identities. In practice this has often resulted in the relegation of alternative identities to an extra-political or even pre-political status. Today these alternative identities have become overtly politicized and as a result the stability of the identity of 'citizen' has itself been destabilized and contested. The 'rise' of identity politics has thus ushered in a number of challenges to, and transformations in, the discourses of citizenship. In this article we bring the resource of governmentality theory to bear upon the changing conditions of a modern complex citizenship that is not confined to the political arena, and a conception of politics not confined to the state. To this is added a neo-Gramscian consideration of counter-hegemony. This yields an agonistic vision of citizenship in which universal elements are not imposed from above, but are the outcome of projects in which social forces change themselves in constituting alliances with other political identities.

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Identity versus Citizenship: Transformations in the Discourses and Practices of Citizenship

Purvis

Hunt

1999

Social & Legal Studies

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“…The same can be said for literature, emerging in the 1990s, linking citizenship discourse and 'sexualities' discourse that reflected the then popular citizenship rhetoric in UK and European Union (EU) politics (see Lister 1990, Taylor 1991, Cooper 1993, Meehan 1993, Kofman 1995, Isin and Wood 1999, Waites 2005) and a growth in academic research…”

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The ‘neat concept’ of sexual citizenship: a cautionary tale for human rights discourse

Wilson

2009

Contemporary Politics

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“…Inclusion into the state’s welfare does not ensure social justice per se but may rather entail the generation of new forms of inequality (Cossman, 2007: 3). Hence, as Cooper puts it, citizenship is ‘the process of inclusion and exclusion, either in terms of membership of the public realm or as rights and responsibilities vis-à-vis the state’ (Cooper, 1993: 155).…”

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The Silenced Citizens of Russia

Kondakov

2013

Social & Legal Studies

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This article draws attention to how citizenship, informed by heteronormativity, is represented in politics, judiciary and public social practices in Russia. I argue that the observed discursive reality affects construction of heteronormative citizenship that restricts full inclusion of lesbians and gay men via silencing. The ideas of the article are taken from literature on citizenship and two empirical research studies that I conducted in 2010 and 2011–2012. The first is dedicated to the uncovering of discursive effects of political argumentation in Russia. The second study centres on the accounts of lesbians and gay men themselves regarding their citizenship rights. Both studies give rise to concerns about Soviet legacy in contemporary Russian debates on homosexuality. This idea is supported by an analysis of that historical context that may be grasped from empirical studies of the Soviet.

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The Citizen's Charter and Radical Democracy: Empowerment and Exclusion Within Citizenship Discourse

Cited by 27 publications

References 13 publications

Identity versus Citizenship: Transformations in the Discourses and Practices of Citizenship

Identity versus Citizenship: Transformations in the Discourses and Practices of Citizenship

The ‘neat concept’ of sexual citizenship: a cautionary tale for human rights discourse

The Silenced Citizens of Russia

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