Constituting Communities Political Solutions to Cultural Differences

The pluralism of contemporary states is often conceptualised as a problem of culture, which calls for more social cohesion. This in turn requires political, civic solutions. But what such appeals to words like citizenship, constitutionalism or civic patriotism imply is contested. From a cross-disciplinary and conceptual perspective the book discusses political solutions to cultural conflict such as constitutional patriotism, republicanism and liberal nationalism, but places these debates in the context of real national traditions, where all civic language inevitably also reflects "culture".

PER MOURITSEN is a lecturer in political theory at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. KNUD ERIK JØRGENSEN is a Jean Monnet Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.

Introduction--P.Mouritsen & K.E.Jørgensen * Political responses to cultural difference: Five ambiguous vocabularies--P.Mouritsen * Symbolic Power and Cultural Difference: A power model of political solutions to cultural differences--K.Eder * Making Citizens: On the genealogy of Citizenship Ceremonies--T.Damsholt * Accommodating Diversity in the Republic of Ireland: From ethno-religious community to pragmatic pluralism and beyond--I.Honohan * Multiculturalism and the plural discourses of 'the republic'. Old and new world perspectives--P.Mouritsen * On the impossibility of constitutional patriotism--E.Nimni * Unitary or Differentiated Citizenship in the European Union: Balancing equal rights and national cultures--T.V.Olsen * Constitutional patriotism: Canada and the European Union--J.Fossum * A European Republic: Constitutional patriotism or republican non-domination?--J.Maynard * Beyond community and rights: European citizenship and the virtues of participation--R.Bellamy * European identity as a transnational identity--J.Ifversen * The camp and the city. Refugees, gated communities and a post-political concept of the polis--B.Diken & C.B.Laustsen * Concluding Reflection/Cosmopolitanism and 'politically' bounded communities--R.Bauböck Introduction--P.Mouritsen & K.E.Jørgensen * Political responses to cultural difference: Five ambiguous vocabularies--P.Mouritsen * Symbolic Power and Cultural Difference: A power model of political solutions to cultural differences--K.Eder * Making Citizens: On the genealogy of Citizenship Ceremonies--T.Damsholt * Accommodating Diversity in the Republic of Ireland: From ethno-religious community to pragmatic pluralism and beyond--I.Honohan * Multiculturalism and the plural discourses of 'the republic'. Old and new world perspectives--P.Mouritsen * On the impossibility of constitutional patriotism--E.Nimni * Unitary or Differentiated Citizenship in the European Union: Balancing equal rights and national cultures--T.V.Olsen * Constitutional patriotism: Canada and the European Union--J.Fossum * A European Republic: Constitutional patriotism or republican non-domination?--J.Maynard * Beyond community and rights: European citizenship and the virtues of participation--R.Bellamy * European identity as a transnational identity--J.Ifversen * The camp and the city. Refugees, gated communities and a post-political concept of the polis--B.Diken & C.B.Laustsen * Concluding Reflection/Cosmopolitanism and 'politically' bounded communities--R.Bauböck