Cultural Citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18936319 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nick Stevenson (0000-0002-0602-4156, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc200 |
| OpenAlex | W4250392237 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The idea of cultural citizenship in the social sciences has emerged through two main phases of debate. Firstly there was an attempt to extend the categories of citizenship to include questions of culture. Here there was a retracing of the debates on citizenship that was largely concerned with questions of rights and duties in the context of national societies to include issues related to culture. This work owed a great deal to attempts to link sociology and cultural studies found in the work of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and others. Here the study of “culture” became a central sociological concern and could no longer be left to literary studies given its importance in shaping people's dominant understandings of the world. According to Bryan Turner (2001), this debate was unambiguously concerned with the participation of citizens within an explicitly national culture. During this phase many authors argued that inclusion and exclusion were not just phenomena related to the operation of labor markets, the family, and immigration but also included cultural institutions and events such as libraries, sports, museum exhibitions, education, and the media. During phase one of the cultural citizenship debate, issues related to the commodification of culture, access to the relevant cultural capital, and the decline in cultural authority of the traditional arts dominated (Chaney 2002; Stevenson 1997). Here there was an overwhelming concern with the distribution of cultural competency (mainly along the lines of class), the provision of national public spheres through the media, and a concern about issues of cultural value given the rise of more political forms of popular culture during the 1960s. Cultural citizenship was crucially a normative category that aimed to develop the conditions for a popular participatory democracy and a culturally inclusive society. There was, of course, considerable disagreement about the extent to which capitalism could provide the material conditions for universal forms of participation. However, the possibility of mass forms of politics producing a more emancipated and culturally inclusive society seemed, no matter how distant, politically feasible. In particular cultural citizenship was linked to important debates within cultural, media, and urban policy and became concerned with questions of regeneration, participation, democracy, and voice
Citizenship · Commodification · Cultural capital · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Media studies · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Media and Politics
| Highly cited | No |
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