Citizenship, Europe and Change
Author | : P. Close |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781349237807 |
ISBN-13 | : 1349237809 |
Rating | : 4/5 (809 Downloads) |
Download or read book Citizenship, Europe and Change written by P. Close and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship, Europe and Change is about the implications of the evolution of the European Union and the emergence of European supra-citizenship for the people of Europe. It addresses the way in which these implications are crucially mediated by inequalities according to social class, age- generation, race-ethnicity and sex-gender. An analytical framework is presented in terms of which European society, processes and change are decisively shaped within a hierarchy of political communities and conflicts, and driven by fundamental societal contradictions. Attention is paid to conceptual and theoretical issues, and there is a critical examination of the impact of social policy, motivated by a commitment to European integration and supra-citizenship in so far as these things benefit the people of Europe, especially the disadvantaged and excluded.