Citizenship and Difference

Towards a Differentiated Universalism

Bibliographic Data

ID2398534
AuthorsRuth Lister (Loughborough University, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume1
Issue1
Pages71-90
Publication date1998-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/136843198001001006
OpenAlexW2138914559
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited59

Citizenship can be represented as both a status and a practice, reflecting the liberal/social rights and civic republican traditions but also moving beyond them in a critical synthesis. A key challenge for contemporary feminist and radical citizenship theory is how to move beyond the bogus universalism that underpinned both of these traditions, as well as that implied by the category 'woman', so as to accommodate citizenship's universalist promise to the demands of diversity and difference. The article suggests how citizenship as both a status and a practice can be rethought so as to respond to this challenge. Drawing on a range of social and political theorists, it offers the concept of a 'differentiated universalism' as a means of encapsulating the creative tension between the universal and the particular that lies at the heart of this approach to citizenship

Citizenship · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Universalism · Anthropology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools

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