Week 3: Mann & Tilly

We have some catching up to do...

• Last week – apologies
• In exchange – day before Fall Break has been cancelled
• New landing page for site
• Pass out Instructions for semester project with due dates
• Introduction (pp 1-14) in Kivisto, Peter, and Thomas Faist. 2007. Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects. (PDF) http://tinyurl.com/hxg5cdm (14 pages)

What’s happened so far?

• Aristotle 
• Anderson’s Imagined Communities 
• rise of nation-state—what is nation-state
• right and ability to police its own borders
• a kind of sense of political unity (us-them)
• raises question if rise of nation-state goes hand-in-hand with rise of capitalism, how is class warfare prevented? 
• TH Marshall
• Critiques of TH Marshall – Mann – Ruling Class Strategies and Citizenship
• Rights through struggles and alternative ways of thinking about citizenship (see ppt: http://tinyurl.com/jh3s4vf )
• Tilly
• Shklar – I know this was long but it’s a seminal piece
• see Citizenship Timeline: http://migration.professorpok.com/2016/09/changes-in-citizenship-over-time.html 
• see John Oliver on voting rights
• Kymlicka – multicultural citizenship (redefining “us”?)
• Can we have a sense of strong ties within if we emphasize diversity? Or 'deep diversity' too 'thin' for us to tied to one place or another? 
• Can we create a sense of belonging that is 'thick' enoghy to generate belonging, but 'thin' enough to inclusive?
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Now we’re going to focus more heavily on the American experience.

• What is American citizenship?
• What orgs are involved in American Citizenship? (http://tinyurl.com/z67sbs9) 
• Can you pass a citizenship test? (https://my.uscis.gov/prep/test/civics) 
• How many Amendments does the US Constitution have?
• What is the Bill of Rights?
• What does the judicial branch do?
• What is the rule of law?
• What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
• Why do we have a bicameral Congress?