Lab. Contentious Citizenship and Global Seams
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
This lab aims to shed light on long-term and articulated processes of global citizenship. Accordingly, it is ideally addressed at students who have included the exam of "Global Citizenship" in their study plan. Drawing on latest book by Jacobson and Cinalli (OUP, 2023), the course integrates the two dimensions of 'political' and 'civic' citizenship, linking systematically the analysis of the public sphere with that of policy-making. This allows for discussing in class a large set of case studies, based on the various geographical and cultural origins of students attending the lab.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will acquire practical skills for articulating diachronic and cross-national variations of citizenship in holistic legal, political and sociological sense, in the context of a large set of specific case studies. Students will learn to apply critical thinking and independent judgement (being developed in occasion of previous courses, and in particular, "Global Citizenship"), focusing on the intervention of active citizens and civil society within an ever-wide opening of global institutions and governance.
Lesson period: Third trimester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Third trimester
Course syllabus
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Who Rules? Who Belongs? Two Questions, Three Revolutions
Week 3: The First Revolution: The Ancient and Classical Periods
Week 4: The Second Revolution: The Medieval Roots of Modern
Week 5: Practices of Citizenship: From the Enlightenment to the Nation- State
Week 6: The Turn to Human Rights and Its Vulnerabilities
Week 7: Interests and Identities: Citizenship and the Problem
Week 8: From Borders to Seams
Week 9: A Twenty- First Century Guild
Week 10: Completing the Third Revolution? A Conclusion
Week 2: Who Rules? Who Belongs? Two Questions, Three Revolutions
Week 3: The First Revolution: The Ancient and Classical Periods
Week 4: The Second Revolution: The Medieval Roots of Modern
Week 5: Practices of Citizenship: From the Enlightenment to the Nation- State
Week 6: The Turn to Human Rights and Its Vulnerabilities
Week 7: Interests and Identities: Citizenship and the Problem
Week 8: From Borders to Seams
Week 9: A Twenty- First Century Guild
Week 10: Completing the Third Revolution? A Conclusion
Prerequisites for admission
No preliminary knowledge in the field is required, although it is strongly adviced for students who have already taken the exam in Global Citizenship. Students must respect any prerequisite according to their own degree course.
Teaching methods
The lab will be held through regular classroom work, so attendance is necessary to accomplish the various deliveries. Students will exercise to identify and discuss main threads of course across all weekly meetings.
Teaching Resources
Marshall, "Citizenship and Social Class"
Anderson, "Imagined Communities"
Imig and Tarrow, "Contentious Europeans"
Cinalli, "Citizenship and the Political Integration of Muslims"
Jacobson and Cinalli, "Citizenship's Third Revolution"
Cinalli and Trenz, "Solidarity contestation in the public sphere"
Anderson, "Imagined Communities"
Imig and Tarrow, "Contentious Europeans"
Cinalli, "Citizenship and the Political Integration of Muslims"
Jacobson and Cinalli, "Citizenship's Third Revolution"
Cinalli and Trenz, "Solidarity contestation in the public sphere"
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students will be assessed via continous assessment through work in class (final grade expressed in pass/fail). This exam focuses on concepts, theoretical perspectives and empirical cases that are tackled throughout work in class.
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