Constituting Communities: Political Solutions to Cultural Conflict »

PER MOURITSEN is a lecturer in political theory at the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. KNUD ERIK JØRGENSEN is a Jean Monnet Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.

The pluralism of contemporary states is often conceptualised as a problem of culture, which calls for more social cohesion. This in turn requires political, civic solutions. But what such appeals to words like citizenship, constitutionalism or civic patriotism imply is contested. From a cross-disciplinary and conceptual perspective the book discusses political solutions to cultural conflict such as constitutional patriotism, republicanism and liberal nationalism, but places these debates in the context of real national traditions, where all civic language inevitably also reflects "culture".

Acknowledgements     vii
Preface     viii
Notes on the Contributors     xi
Political Responses to Cultural Conflict: Reflections on the Ambiguities of the Civic Turn   Per Mouritsen     1
Symbolic Power and Cultural Differences: A Power Model of Political Solutions to Cultural Differences   Klaus Eder     31
Making Citizens: On the Genealogy of Citizenship Ceremonies   Tine Damsholt     53
The Politics of Discourse towards Islam and Muslim Communities in Europe   Ricard Zapata-Barrero   Islam Qasem     73
Constitutional or Agonistic Patriotism? The Dilemmas of Liberal Nation-States   Ephraim Nimni     94
Transnational Europe   Jan Ifversen     117
Constitutional Patriotism: Canada and the European Union   John Erik Fossum     138
Beyond Community and Rights: European Citizenship and the Virtues of Participation   Richard Bellamy   Dario Castiglione     162
Constitutional Patriotism or Neo-republican Citizenship: A Way Forward for the EU?   John Maynor     187
World Conflict over Religion: Secularism as a Flawed Solution   Ole Woever     208
Nomadism and the Ghetto   Bulent Diken   Carsten Bagge Laustsen     236
Index     253