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A review essay on books by (1) David Cescarani & Mary Fulbrook (Eds), Citizenship, Nationality and Migration in Europe (London: Routledge, 1996); (2) Paul Close, Citizenship, Europe and Change (London: Macmillan, 1995); (3) Barbara Einhorn, Mary Kaldor, & Zenek Kavan (Eds), Citizenship and Democratic Control in Contemporary Europe (Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar, 1997); & (4) Percy Lehning & Albert Weale (Eds), Citizenship, Democracy and Justice in the New Europe (London: Routledge, 1997). These books address the issue of European citizenship, which derives its legitimacy from the functioning of a regulatory body, rather than from either participation or the rights & duties of individuals & the state. The authors emphasize that European integration is not legitimated by a citizenship of its own making; however, they fail to provide a comprehensive analysis of the problem. Although rights & participation are central to most of the arguments, especially in regard to immigrant rights & the enhancement of participation, they ignore the contradiction that increasing rights may not extend participation, & placing the concept of participation in a political framework makes participation structurally impossible. However, there is consensus that citizenship is in crisis due to the noncoherence of political & cultural communities in the form of national societies. While these books contribute to the debate about European integration, they avoid the disconnection between transnational citizenship & citizen participation. It is contended that European integration will have to create new structures to allow for some participation or remain simply an expression of certain formalistic rights. J. Lindroth

What does it mean to be a citizen in the 21st century? Globalization, the dominance of corporations, the influence of technology, massive immigration, and geopolitical shifts have changed our world considerably in just a few decades. How have these changes affected the responsibilities placed on us as citizens and also on governments and leaders around the world? Tackling a number of fascinating issues pertaining to our future, the viewpoints in this resource examine our place in the world today and predict the ways in which citizenship will continue to evolve.

The present article is the product of a research project entitled Citizenship and social representations of politics in young people participating in social, political, economic and cultural organizations in Villavicencio. It is developed in the context of a literature review that accounts for the central category of youth citizenship, in order to identify and contrast the positions that have different authors in an attempt to get the inclusion of several actors and practices with regard to citizenship and forms of youth participation in expressions, consistent with the significant contribution of these actors with society. It also allows us to characterize the peculiarities of youth public participation, how they take such a commitment with the society to which they belong, the difficulties they face in exercising their role, the issues that mobilize their efforts and their way of conceiving the system. ; Este artículo es producto del proyecto de investigación denominado Ciudadanía y representaciones sociales de la política en jóvenes que participan en organizaciones sociales, políticas, económicas y culturales de Villavicencio. Se desarrolla una revisión de los antecedentes de la literatura que dan cuenta de la categoría central de la investigación, la ciudadanía juvenil, con el propósito de identificar y contrastar las posturas que presentan diferentes autores, en un intento por lograr la inclusión de diversos actores y prácticas en lo concerniente a la ciudadanía y a las formas de participación en sus expresiones juveniles, en consonancia con el aporte significativo que representan estos actores para la sociedad. Asimismo, permite caracterizar las particularidades de la participación ciudadana juvenil, su forma de asumir tal compromiso con la sociedad a la que pertenece, las dificultades que enfrenta para ejercer su rol, los temas que movilizan sus esfuerzos y su forma de concebir el sistema.

Este artículo es producto del proyecto de investigación denominado Ciudadanía y representaciones sociales de la política en jóvenes que participan en organizaciones sociales, políticas, económicas y culturales de Villavicencio. Se desarrolla una revisión de los antecedentes de la literatura que dan cuenta de la categoría central de la investigación, la ciudadanía juvenil, con el propósito de identificar y contrastar las posturas que presentan diferentes autores, en un intento por lograr la inclusión de diversos actores y prácticas en lo concerniente a la ciudadanía y a las formas de participación en sus expresiones juveniles, en consonancia con el aporte significativo que representan estos actores para la sociedad. Asimismo, permite caracterizar las particularidades de la participación ciudadana juvenil, su forma de asumir tal compromiso con la sociedad a la que pertenece, las dificultades que enfrenta para ejercer su rol, los temas que movilizan sus esfuerzos y su forma de concebir el sistema. ; The present article is the product of a research project entitled Citizenship and social representations of politics in young people participating in social, political, economic and cultural organizations in Villavicencio. It is developed in the context of a literature review that accounts for the central category of youth citizenship, in order to identify and contrast the positions that have different authors in an attempt to get the inclusion of several actors and practices with regard to citizenship and forms of youth participation in expressions, consistent with the significant contribution of these actors with society. It also allows us to characterize the peculiarities of youth public participation, how they take such a commitment with the society to which they belong, the difficulties they face in exercising their role, the issues that mobilize their efforts and their way of conceiving the system.

"During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, "A good citizen is a good reader." As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to reading to understand their place in the changing world. Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did reading make you a good citizen? In Reading America, Kristin L. Matthews puts into conversation a range of political, educational, popular, and touchstone literary texts to demonstrate how Americans from across the political spectrum--including "great works" proponents, New Critics, civil rights leaders, postmodern theorists, neoconservatives, and multiculturalists--celebrated particular texts and advocated particular interpretive methods as they worked to make their vision of "America" a reality. She situates the fiction of J. D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, and Maxine Hong Kingston within these debates, illustrating how Cold War literature was not just an object of but also a vested participant in postwar efforts to define good reading and citizenship" --

When digital technologies become a part of everyday life in most parts of society, it changes the way we work, organize, communicate, and make relations. It also changes the relationship between the state and its citizens - a relationship usually conceptualized as citizenship. To capture this transformation, a new concept of digital citizenship has emerged. The overall purpose of this paper is to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge about how citizenship is transformed into digital citizenship through a systematic review of the academic literature on the concept of digital citizenship. The literature review identifies four streams of literature in the academic landscape of digital citizenship, and by a content analysis, it outlines the many dimensions and facets of digital citizenship. In this way, the literature review offers a comprehensive picture of both the impacts of the digital transformation on citizenship and the concept within the academic debate.

When digital technologies become a part of everyday life in most parts of society, it changes the way we work, organize, communicate, and make relations. It also changes the relationship between the state and its citizens – a relationship usually conceptualized as citizenship. To capture this transformation, a new concept of digital citizenship has emerged. The overall purpose of this paper is to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge about how citizenship is transformed into digital citizenship through a systematic review of the academic literature on the concept of digital citizenship. The literature review identifies four streams of literature in the academic landscape of digital citizenship, and by a content analysis, it outlines the many dimensions and facets of digital citizenship. In this way, the literature review offers a comprehensive picture of both the impacts of the digital transformation on citizenship and the concept within the academic debate.

Prominent literature on citizenship is both gender-neutral and gender-sensitive. Yet, as many feminist scholars have argued, the concept of citizenship itself has been historically framed as quintessentially male, thus excluding women from the equal status of citizenship. Therefore, in order for women to be fully recognized as citizens, feminist scholarship considers the re-articulation of the concept of citizenship as well as its related concepts of public and private. Along these lines, women's citizenship as a status and practice allows space for women's agency to be exerted in the civil society sphere as well as within the governmental domain of politics. The most important factor of women's political citizenship, women's self-identification as political actors, is crucial in order for them to exercise their political citizenship rights. This paper offers a theoretical insight into the concept of citizenship, citizenship theories and women's citizenship as political agency. Moreover, the paper presents three models of citizenship that have emerged from the feminists' attempts to re-gender the concept of citizenship aiming the deconstruction of power relations and attacking the concept of citizenship as being quintessentially male. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s5p109