Course for international guest/part time students

Faculty

Faculty of Social Sciences

Organization

TÁTK Department of European Studies

Code

IRB122

Title

Citizenship, nationalism

Usual semester

Spring

Published semester

2025/26/2

ECTS

4

Language

en

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to introduce students into the major theories of nationalism and citizenship. Related political and legal dilemmas of self-determination, minorities, and gender inequalities will also be discussed. Students will acquire the ability to identify various theoretical approaches to nationalism and citizenship, opposing views in the debates on multiculturalism, they will familiarize with the corresponding concepts, methodological questions, legal frameworks on the national, supranational and international level, the most recent trends. Professors Turai Katalin Ráhel turai.rahel@tatk.elte.hu Ujlaki Anna ujlaki.anna@tatk.elte.hu

Course content

1. Introduction 2. The origins of citizenship. Citizenship, nationality, ethnicity, cultural affinity and the political community 3. Why obey the law? Political obligation, authority, and legitimacy 4. Boundaries and methodological nationalism 5. Migration, mobility and noncitizensip 6. Nationalism, liberalism, multiculturalism. State neutrality and fostering unity 7. Theories of Nationalism 8. Nation states and ethnic conflicts 9. Gender and Nationalism 10. Gendered Citizenship 11. Global hierarchies, ethnic and sexual minorities 12. East Central Europe, nationalism, and (anti)populism. Summary of the course

Assessment method

Requirements Oral exam based on the lectures and assigned readings (uploaded to Canvas).

Bibliography

Introduction Linda Bosniak: Citizenship. In The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies, Mark Tushnet and Peter Cane (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005. 183–201. The origins of citizenship. Citizenship, nationality, ethnicity, cultural affinity and the political community Michael Walzer: Citizenship. In Citizenship. Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol I. Richard Bellamy and Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy (eds.). Routledge, 2014. 86–92. Jo Shaw: EU Citizenship. Still a Fundamental Status? In Debating European Citizenship. Ed. Rainer Bauböck. Springer. 2019. pp. 1-17 (Read: 1-12.) Why obey the law? Political obligation, authority, and legitimacy John A. Simmons: Political Obligation and Authority. In The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy. Robert L. Simon (ed.) Blackwell Publishers, Massachusetts; London. 2002. 17–37. Boundaries and methodological nationalism Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller: Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences. Global Networks 2(4) 2002. 301–334. Daniel Chernilo: The Critique of Methodological Nationalism: Theory, and History. Thesis Eleven 106(1), 2011. 98-117. (Read: 98-105) Migration, mobility and noncitizensip Ayelet Shachar Gated Citizenship. Citizenship Studies 26(4-5) 2022. 625–637. Rainer Bauböck: Temporary migrants, partial citizenship and hypermigration, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14(5) 2011. 665–693, Rainer Bauböck and Christian Joppke, eds. How Liberal are Citizenship Tests? EUI Working Papers RSCAS 2010/41, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, 2010. https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/13956/RSCAS_2010_41corr.pdf Nationalism, liberalism, multiculturalism. State neutrality and fostering unity Sarah Song: Multiculturalism.The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N Zalta (ed.). 2017. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/ Will Kymlicka: The rise and fall of multiculturalism? New debates on inclusion and accommodation in diverse societies. In The Multiculturalism Backlash. European discourses, policies and practices. Steven Vertovec and Susanne Wessendorf (eds.) Routledge, 2010. 32–49. 7. Theories of Nationalism Philip Spencer and Howard Wollman, Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, Sage, 2002, 26–56 (Chapter on Contemporary Approaches to Nationalism). Rogers Brubaker, Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism, in The State of the Nation, edited by John A. Hall, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 272–306. 8. Nation states and ethnic conflicts John Mueller, The Banality of “Ethnic War”, International Security, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Summer 2000), 42–70, only Conclusions (62–70). Will Kymlicka, The Internationalization of Minority Rights, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2008, 1–32. 9.      Gender and Nationalism Yuval-Davis, Nira. 2003. „Nationalist Projects and Gender Relations.” Narodna umjetnost : hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Vol. 40 No. 1, pp. 9-36. Ronit Lentin. 2001. „Memory and forgetting: Gendered counter narratives of silence in the relations between Israeli zionism and the shoah”. EUI Working Papers. Florence: European University Institute, 2001 EUI RSC, 2001/08, https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/1717 10.  Gendered Citizenship a. Walby, Sylvia. 1994. „Is Citizenship Gendered?”. Sociology, May 1994, Vol. 28, No. 2 (May 1994), pp. 379-395., https://www.jstor.org/stable/42857698 b. Franzway, Suzanne. 2016. „The sexual politics of citizenship and violence”. Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 58, September–October 2016, Pages 18-24. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539515301400 11.  Global hierarchies, ethnic and sexual minorities Andersen, Margaret L. 1999. "Diversity without Oppression: Race, Ethnicity, Identity and Power." In Critical Ethnicity: Countering the Waves of Identity Politics, edited by M. Kenyatta and R. Tai. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 5-20. Woodcock, Shannon. 2018. "A short history of the queer time of “post-socialist” Romania, or, Are we there yet? Let’s ask Madonna!". AnALize: Revista de studii feministe 10 (24):14-37. 12.  East Central Europe, nationalism, and (anti)populism. Summary of the course Rogers Brubaker. 2006. The National Question In East Central Europe. In: Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox and Liana Grancea: Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town, Princeton University Press, 27-55. Ágnes Gagyi. 2016. “Coloniality of Power” in East Central Europe: External Penetration as Internal Force in Post-Socialist Hungarian Politics”. Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. 22 Issue 2, pp. 349-372, doi 10.5195/jwsr.2016.626

Programmes of the course