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Sixteenth-century Europe saw the emergence of a modern project that soon spread to other parts of the globe through conquest, colonization and imperialism, and finally globalization. In its historical development, modernity has radically... more
Sixteenth-century Europe saw the emergence of a modern project that soon spread to other parts of the globe through conquest, colonization and imperialism, and finally globalization. In its historical development, modernity has radically remade the institutional and organizational structures of many traditional societies worldwide. It followed two distinct trajectories: the transformation of traditional societies within Western cultures, on the one hand, and the implementation of modernity in non-Western cultures, on the other. The emergence and development of modernity can be explained using three interrelated domains: ideology, politics, and economy. Enlightenment thinking constituted the ideological background of modernity, while the rise of individualism and the secularization of political power reflected its political dimension. The economic dimension of modernity involved the massive mobility of people into cities and the emergence of a market economy through the commercializa...
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Published in the journal, Global Social Policy 2016
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This article addresses the question of how to understand the relation among precarity, differential inclusion, and citizenship status with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey. Turkey has become host to over 2.7 million Syrian refugees who... more
This article addresses the question of how to understand the relation among precarity, differential inclusion, and citizenship status with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey. Turkey has become host to over 2.7 million Syrian refugees who live in government-run refugee camps and urban centres. Drawing on critical citizenship and migration studies literature, the paper emphasises the Turkish government’s central legal and policy frameworks that provide Syrians with some citizenship rights while simultaneously regulating their status and situating them in a position of limbo. Syrians are not only making claims to citizenship rights but they are also negotiating their access to social services, humanitarian assistance, and employment in different ways. The analysis stresses that Syrian refugees in Turkey continue to be part of the multiple pathways to precarity, differential inclusion, and negotiated citizenship rights.
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Right-wing parties and governments in Europe have recently expressed greater hostility towards cultural pluralism, at times officially denunciating multiculturalism, and calling for the closure of borders and denial of rights to... more
Right-wing parties and governments in Europe have recently expressed greater hostility towards cultural pluralism, at times officially denunciating multiculturalism, and calling for the closure of borders and denial of rights to non-European nationals. Within this context, this article argues for rethinking Europe through radically transgressive and transnational understandings of cosmopolitanism as articulated by growing transnational populations within Europe such as immigrants, refugees, and irregular migrants. Transgressive forms of cosmopolitanism disrupt European notions of borders and identities in ways that challenge both liberal multiculturalism and assimilationist positions. This article explores the limits of traditional cosmopolitan thinking while offering a vision of cosmopolitanism based on everyday negotiations with cultural differences, explained using two illustrative examples or snapshots.
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A growing refugee and migration crisis has imploded on European shores, immobilizing E.U. countries and fuelling a rise in far-right parties. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates the question of how to foster pluralism and a... more
A growing refugee and migration crisis has imploded on European
shores, immobilizing E.U. countries and fuelling a rise in far-right
parties. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates the question
of how to foster pluralism and a cosmopolitan desire for living
with others who are newcomers. It does so by investigating community-
based, citizen-led initiatives that open communities to
newcomers, such as refugees and migrants, and foster cultural
pluralism in ways that transform understandings of who is a
citizen and belongs to the community. This study focuses on
initiatives which seek to build solidarity and social relations with
newcomers, but in ways that challenge citizen/non-citizen binaries
based on one of our field research sites: Berlin, Germany. The
paper brings insights from critical citizenship studies, exploring
how citizenship is constituted through everyday practices, into
dialogue with radical cosmopolitanism, particularly through
Derrida’s works on ‘unconditional hospitality’. This radical cosmopolitan
literature theorizes possibilities for building relational
ontologies between guest and host, citizen and newcomer, in
ways that are not based on exclusion, but engagement with
difference and which challenge antagonistic forms of self-other
and citizen-non-citizen dichotomies. Illustrative examples based
on community-led initiatives in Berlin demonstrate how this spirit
of radical communitarianism is put into practice through everyday
lived experience and demonstrate that it is possible to develop a
cosmopolitan spirit through exchange and transformation of both
the self and other by engaging with rather than seeking to eliminate
difference in the aims of constituting a universal around
which cosmopolitanism can be built.
shores, immobilizing E.U. countries and fuelling a rise in far-right
parties. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates the question
of how to foster pluralism and a cosmopolitan desire for living
with others who are newcomers. It does so by investigating community-
based, citizen-led initiatives that open communities to
newcomers, such as refugees and migrants, and foster cultural
pluralism in ways that transform understandings of who is a
citizen and belongs to the community. This study focuses on
initiatives which seek to build solidarity and social relations with
newcomers, but in ways that challenge citizen/non-citizen binaries
based on one of our field research sites: Berlin, Germany. The
paper brings insights from critical citizenship studies, exploring
how citizenship is constituted through everyday practices, into
dialogue with radical cosmopolitanism, particularly through
Derrida’s works on ‘unconditional hospitality’. This radical cosmopolitan
literature theorizes possibilities for building relational
ontologies between guest and host, citizen and newcomer, in
ways that are not based on exclusion, but engagement with
difference and which challenge antagonistic forms of self-other
and citizen-non-citizen dichotomies. Illustrative examples based
on community-led initiatives in Berlin demonstrate how this spirit
of radical communitarianism is put into practice through everyday
lived experience and demonstrate that it is possible to develop a
cosmopolitan spirit through exchange and transformation of both
the self and other by engaging with rather than seeking to eliminate
difference in the aims of constituting a universal around
which cosmopolitanism can be built.
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The recent condition of complexity within nation-states, triggered by the visibility of transnational communities and by the political demands of cultural identities, indicates that the traditional tools of national narratives with... more
The recent condition of complexity within nation-states, triggered by the visibility of transnational communities and by the political demands of cultural identities, indicates that the traditional tools of national narratives with respect to articulations of identity and membership are exhausted. The debate on postnationalism suggests that unbounding citizenship from its national narrative would create the conditions in which the contentious