Cultural Citizenship – some critical thoughts on the usefulness and potential risks of the concept

  • Janny de Jong University of Groningen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-48-2013pp33-50
Keywords: cultural citizenship, European identity, active citizenship

Abstract

Since the 1990s the idea of global, cosmopolitan, multicultural and cultural citizenship gained prominence. The notion of cultural citizenship originally suggested inclusiveness and diversity. It intended to recognise cultural rights of various groups in society, in other words multi-ethnicity and diversity. This inclusive notion has been challenged lately, and increasingly it also has been interpreted in the opposite way. The contradictory readings of this concept, for instance in various Member States of the European Union, question its usefulness. The focus on the cultural dimension of citizenship might even prove risky. Only a broad, “comprehensive” understanding of citizenship can reflect the interconnectedness and multiplicity of political, social and cultural ties between the citizen and the polity.

Received: 02 November 2012
Accepted: 20 December 2012
Publicación online: 15 April 2016

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Published
2013-04-30
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de Jong, Janny. 2013. “Cultural Citizenship – Some Critical Thoughts on the Usefulness and Potential Risks of the Concept”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 48 (April), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-48-2013pp33-50.
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No. 48 (2013)
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