Rethinking ‘Citizenship’ in the Postcolony
Rethinking ‘Citizenship’ in the Postcolony
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重新思考后殖民地的“公民身份”
DOI：
10.1080/01436590802201048
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Bettina von Lieres
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作者：
S. Robins;Andrea Cornwall;Bettina von Lieres
摘要本文主张从特定的社会、文化和历史背景下的日常经验出发，而不是从规范性信念出发来研究公民身份和民主。本文首先对“民主”和“公民身份”这两个术语在主流的公民身份和民主研究的话语和方法中的使用方式进行了考察，并提请注意一些概念上的盲点。我们呼吁更多地注意对日常生活政治的背景理解，并在这种政治中定位国家、非政府组织和捐助者的修辞和促进“积极公民身份”和“参与性治理”的方案。正是这种理解，我们认为，通过揭示这些话语中所蕴含的规范性的局限性，可以为从公民自身的角度重新思考公民身份提供更实质性的基础。
Abstract This paper argues for an approach to researching citizenship and democracy that begins not from normative convictions but from everyday experiences in particular social, cultural and historical contexts. The paper starts with a consideration of the ways in which the terms ‘democracy’ and ‘citizenship’ have been used in the discourses and approaches taken within mainstream studies of citizenship and democracy, drawing attention to some of the conceptual blind spots that arise. We call for more attention to be paid to contextual understandings of the politics of everyday life, and to locating state, ngo and donor rhetorics and programmes promoting ‘active citizenship’ and ‘participatory governance’ within that politics. It is this kind of understanding, we suggest, that, by revealing the limits of the normativities embedded in these discourses, can provide a more substantive basis for rethinking citizenship from the perspectives of citizens themselves.