BSA Sponsored Postgraduate Conference: ‘Citizenship in the 21st Century: Sociological, Political and Cultural Perspectives’
Wednesday the 18th of June, the University of Huddersfield (UK)
Venue:
Room BSG /23
The Business School Building (BS)
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham)
Dr Darren Langdridge (The Open University)
Dr Chris Gifford (University of Huddersfield)
Citizenship Studies has developed exponentially since the emergence of the two traditional models of citizenship, which emphasised either civil or legal rights, political rights and social rights (following Marshall) or the participation of citizens in civil society (the ‘town hall’ model). Citizenship studies has spawned a range of additional approaches, such as multicultural and intimate citizenships, and it has fuelled theoretical debates, for example the tensions between universalist, and particularist approaches to democracy, activism, and welfare policy. ‘Citizenship’ is a contested concept, used as it has been (and continues to be) for a range of (sometimes conflicting) political ends.
More recently, terms such as “global citizenship” (Falk 1994), “media citizenship” (Castells 1997), “cultural citizenship” (Stevenson 2003), “intimate citizenship” (Plummer 2003), “cosmopolitan citizenship” (Held 2004), “ecological citizenship” (Dobson 2004) or “transnational citizenship” (Vertovec 2009) have provided contemporary examples of new forms and dimensions of individual and collective citizenship experiences.
In this context, a new set of rights, duties and responsibilities have emerged within social, political and cultural communities. Phenomena like migration, new technologies of communication and information and transnational experiences have an enormous impact in the creation of these new social categories.
This conference seeks to explore some of the key aspects of these new developments in both applied and theoretical citizenship. In practice this will take the form of two speeches from keynote speakers followed by a series of panels, each dedicated to exploring some of the particular features of 21st Century citizenship.
Each panel will draw together a range of expertise from post-graduate students and early career researchers carrying out cutting edge research with citizenship concepts in a variety of ways and in several fields. It aims to be interdisciplinary and it addresses the following key themes:
- Race and ethnicity
- Gender and sexuality
- Communication, Democracy and Recognition
- Disability and Health Rights
BSA Sponsored Postgraduate Conference: 'Citizenship in the 21st Century: Sociological, Political and Cultural Perspectives' 