Industrial Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism and European Integration
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Industrial Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism and European Integration. / Zhang, Chenchen; Lillie, Nathan.
In: European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 18, No. 1, 6, 2015, p. 93-111.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Industrial Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism and European Integration
AU - Zhang, Chenchen
AU - Lillie, Nathan
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - There has been an explosion of interest in the idea of European Union citizenship in recent years, as a defining example of postnational cosmopolitan citizenship potentially replacing or layered on top of national citizenships. We argue that this form of EU citizenship undermines industrial citizenship, which is a crucial support for social solidarity on which other types of citizenship are based. Because industrial citizenship arises from collectivities based on class identities and national institutions, it depends on the national territorial order and the social closure inherent in it. EU citizenship in its current ‘postnational’ form is realized through practices of mobility, placing it at tension with bounded class-based collectivities. Though practices of working class cosmopolitanism may eventually give rise to a working class consciousness, the fragmented nature of this vision impedes the development of transnational class based collectivities. Industrial and cosmopolitan citizenship must be reimagined together if European integration is to be democratized.
AB - There has been an explosion of interest in the idea of European Union citizenship in recent years, as a defining example of postnational cosmopolitan citizenship potentially replacing or layered on top of national citizenships. We argue that this form of EU citizenship undermines industrial citizenship, which is a crucial support for social solidarity on which other types of citizenship are based. Because industrial citizenship arises from collectivities based on class identities and national institutions, it depends on the national territorial order and the social closure inherent in it. EU citizenship in its current ‘postnational’ form is realized through practices of mobility, placing it at tension with bounded class-based collectivities. Though practices of working class cosmopolitanism may eventually give rise to a working class consciousness, the fragmented nature of this vision impedes the development of transnational class based collectivities. Industrial and cosmopolitan citizenship must be reimagined together if European integration is to be democratized.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - industrial citizenship
KW - free movement
KW - European Integration
KW - class
KW - migration
KW - cosmopolitanism
KW - citizenship
KW - EUROPEAN UNION
KW - Social theory
KW - political theory
U2 - 10.1177/1368431014553756
DO - 10.1177/1368431014553756
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 93
EP - 111
JO - European Journal of Social Theory
JF - European Journal of Social Theory
SN - 1368-4310
IS - 1
M1 - 6
ER -
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