Global urbanism and the crisis of emancipation
- In the Middle Ages the European cities constituted the bourgeois laboratory for the formulation and the institutionalisation of the rights of citizenship. In 2014, the urban population accounted already for 54 per cent of global population. Yet, globalisation and neo-liberal policies have significantly challenged the social protection systems and social justice. From a sociological perspective, increased urbanisation implies a state of increased individual freedom, while at once it provokes growing social fragmentation. The chapter focuses on these dialectics and analyses to which degree social fragmentation affects the formal institutionalisation of citizenship rights and the substantial access to formally established rights, while at the same time excluding the most disadvantaged social groups, reducing them to mere ‘denizens’ of urban societies.
Author details: | Gregor FitziGND |
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ISBN: | 978-0-42926-226-5 |
ISBN: | 978-0-367-20562-1 |
Title of parent work (German): | Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Year of first publication: | 2020 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2021/06/24 |
Number of pages: | 16 |
First page: | 81 |
Last Page: | 96 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |