Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances

435 Pages·2007·3.16 MB·English

by  Seyla Benhabib

Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances
Wheredopoliticalidentitiescomefrom,howdotheychangeovertime,
and what is their impact on political life? This book explores these
and related questions in a globalizing world where the nation-state is
being transformed, definitions of citizenship are evolving in unprece-
dented ways, and people’s interests and identities are taking on new
local, regional, transnational, cosmopolitan, and even imperial con-
figurations. Pre-eminent scholars examine the changing character of
identities,affiliations,andallegiancesinavarietyofcontexts:theevolv-
ing character of the European Union and its member countries, the
Balkansandothernewdemocraciesofthepost-1989world,anddebates
aboutcitizenshipandculturalidentityinthemodernWest.Theseessays
areessentialreadingforanyoneinterestedinthepoliticalandintellec-
tual ferment that surrounds debates about political membership and
attachment,andwillbeofinteresttostudentsandscholarsinthesocial
sciences,humanities,andlaw.
  isEugeneMeyerProfessorofPoliticalScienceand
Philosophy and Director of the Program in Ethics, Politics and Eco-
nomicsatYaleUniversity.HermostrecentpublicationsincludeTrans-
formationofCitizenship:DilemmasoftheNation-StateintheEraofGlobal-
ization(2000),TheClaimsofCulture:EqualityandDiversityintheGlobal
World (2002), and The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents and Citizens
(2004) which won the Ralph Bunche award of the American Political
Science Association and the North American Society’s best book in
SocialPhilosophyaward.Benhabib’slatestpublicationisAnotherCos-
mopolitanism,ed.byRobertPostandwithcommentariesbyJeremyWal-
dron,BonnieHonigandWillKymlicka(2006,BerkeleyTannerLecture
Series).
 isSterlingProfessorofPoliticalScienceatYaleUniversity
andHenryR.LuceDirectoroftheMacMillanCenterforInternational
andAreaStudies.HismostrecentpublicationsincludeTheFlightFrom
Reality in the Human Sciences (2005), Death by a Thousand Cuts: The
Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Michael J. Graetz, 2005) and
Containment:RebuildingaStrategyagainstGlobalTerror(2007).
  is a PhD candidate in political science at
YaleUniversity.Hisdissertationexaminesthedemocraticpotentialities
within the American patriotic tradition, and explores how democratic
idealscanbestberealizedinthecontemporaryworld.

Identities, Affiliations, and
Allegiances
Editedby
Seyla Benhabib, Ian Shapiro, and Danilo Petranovic´
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Contents
Listoffigures page vii
Listoftables viii
Listofcontributors ix
Editors’introduction 1
 ,  , 
 
PartI. Emergenceandlimitsofnational
politicalidentities
1. Fromaffiliationtoaffinity:citizenshipinthetransition
fromempiretothenation-state 17
 
2. Transnationalizingthepublicsphere:onthelegitimacy
andefficacyofpublicopinioninapostWestphalianworld 45
 
3. “Beingthere”:place,territory,andidentity 67
 . 
4. Politicalboundariesinamultileveldemocracy 85
 
PartII. Multipleidentitiesinpractice:the
Europeanexample
5. BuildingEuropeaninstitutions:beyondstrongtiesand
weakcommitments 113
 
6. Softbordersandtransnationalcitizens 136
 
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7. Transnationalnationalism:redefiningnationand
territory 159
 
PartIII. Decouplingcitizenshipfromidentity
8. Bindingproblems,boundaryproblems:thetroublewith
“democraticcitizenship” 181
  
9. Immigrantpoliticalintegrationandethniccivic
communitiesinAmsterdam 206
    
10. Nonterritorialboundariesofcitizenship 226
 . 
11. Againstbirthrightprivilege:redefiningcitizenship
asproperty 257
 
PartIV. Identityandhistoricalinjustice
12. Socialsolidarityasaproblemforcosmopolitan
democracy 285
 
13. Thecontinuingsignificanceofethnoculturalidentity 303
 . 
14. Amnestyorimpunity?Apreliminarycritiqueofthe
ReportoftheTruthandReconciliationCommissionof
SouthAfrica 325
 
15. Law’sraces 362
 . 
References 386
Index 417
Figures
9.1 Politicalintegration:aproposedconceptualclassification
intofourdimensions page207
9.2 ImmigrationtoandemigrationfromtheNetherlands,
1972–2000 209
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Tables
9.1 Absoluteandrelativesizeof“allochtone”populationin
theNetherlandsandfourlargestcities,2001 page212
9.2 Twenty-fiveprincipalimmigrantethnicgroupsinthe
NetherlandsandAmsterdam,2001 213
9.3 TurnoutinthreeAmsterdammunicipalelectionsforfour
ethnicgroups 215
9.4 Varioustypesofpoliticalparticipation 216
9.5 Politicalparticipationscore 217
9.6 Regressionanalysis,politicalparticipationscore
(β-coefficients) 219
9.7 Degreeofethniccommunityofethnicorganizationsin
Amsterdam 221
9.8 Degreeofsocialintegrationofethnicorganizationsin
Amsterdam 223
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Contributors
 ,UniversityofAmsterdam
 ,WienInstituteforAdvancedStudies
 ,YaleUniversity
 ,BosphorusUniversity
 ,New York University and Social Science Research
Council
 ,NewSchoolforSocialResearch,NewYork
  ,OhioStateUniversity
 ,NationalCenterforScientificResearchandInsti-
tuteforPoliticalStudies,Paris
 . ,HarvardUniversity
 ,ColumbiaUniversity
 ,DrexelUniversity,Philadelphia
 ,YaleUniversity
 ,UniversityofToronto
 ,YaleUniversity
 ,UniversityofAmsterdam
 . ,UniversityofPennsylvania
 ,UniversityofAmsterdam
 . ,OurLadyoftheLakeUniversity
 . ,UniversityofToronto
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