Human Rights and Citizenship: an Unjustifiable Conflation?

Autor/in	Kiwan, Dina
Titel	Human Rights and Citizenship: an Unjustifiable Conflation?
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 39 (2005) 1, S.37-50 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/j.0309-8249.2005.00418.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Civil Rights; Moral Values; Social Values; Citizenship Education; Justice + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Sozialer Wert; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Gerechtigkeit
Abstract	Human rights discourses are increasingly being coupled to discourses on citizenship and citizenship education. In this paper, I consider the premise that human rights might provide a theoretical underpinning for citizenship. I categorise citizenship into five main categories -- moral, legal, identity-based, participatory and cosmopolitan. Bringing together theoretical and documentary evidence, I argue that human rights cannot logically be a theoretical underpinning for citizenship, regardless of how citizenship may be conceptualised. This is because human rights discourses are located within a universalist frame of reference, in contrast to that of citizenship, which is located within a more particularist frame. Human rights are conceptually distinct from citizenship, and the conflating of human rights with citizenship not only is conceptually incoherent, but may actually obstruct the empowerment and active participation of individual citizens in the context of a political community. (Author).
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