On Social Closure reinvigorates the idea of social closure as a basic sociological concept for understanding the strategies powerful groups use to improve their life chances at the expense of…

Against the background of both manifest and ideological processes the book looks at if citizenship has lost the basis it has rested upon for decades, or if the institution itself…

Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume presents and discusses acute contestations, within…

Against the background of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic exclusion, but also of radical and emancipatory democratic projects, this collection offers a variety of critical and challenging perspectives on…

This three-volume collection explores the most pressing questions relating to the current development of urban environments, providing an overarching consideration of the interconnection between neoliberal city restructuration processes and citizenship.

The contributions gathered in this volume shed light on the clash between the perspectives of restructuring and re-ordering urban environments in the interest of investors and the manifold and innovative…

Spatestens seit Beginn der 1980er Jahre ist Staatsburgerschaft (Citizenship) im angelsachsischen Sprachraum einer der zentralen Begriffe, die die sozialwissen- schaftliehe Analyse moderner Gesellschaften angesichts struktureller und kultu- reller Transformationsprozesse in…