Citizenship as cultural: Towards a theory of cultural citizenship. Issue 10 (October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beaman, Jean
• Is Part Of: Sociology compass. Volume 10:Issue 10(2016)
• Page Start: 849
• Page End: 857
• Publication Date: 2016-10
• Subjects: culture -- subjects -- citizenship -- immigration; Socioology -- Periodicals; 301
• DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12415
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-9020

Abstract

Abstract: Traditional notions of citizenship have focused on formal membership, including access to rights, in a national community. More recent scholarship has expanded this definition beyond citizenship as a legal status to focus on struggles for societal inclusion of and justice for marginalized populations, citizenship as both a social and symbolic boundary of exclusion, and post‐colonial and post‐national citizenship. In this article, I review conceptions of citizenship that involve more than legal rights. After reviewing this scholarship, I discuss the theoretical framework of cultural citizenship – a move to center the cultural underpinnings of modern citizenship in analyses of citizenship as a boundary of inclusion and exclusion. I use the example of France as one site to locate the connections between citizenship and culture and the cultural underpinnings and implications of citizenship more broadly.