Instrumental Citizenship: A Normative-cum-Empirical Inquiry. Public Lecture at the University of Neuchatel by Christian Joppke, University of Bern.
University of Neuchatel
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Prof. Christian Joppke
Director of the Institute of Sociology and Chair in General Sociology, University of Bern
14:15 – 15:45 h
University of Neuchatel, Faculty of Humanities, 2000 Neuchatel, Faubourg de l‘Hôpital 61–63, Institut de langue et civilisation françaises, Room B5
Instrumentalism is the heart of an inevitable lightening of citizenship in liberal societies. In his lecture, Christian Joppke discusses and compares three cases of instrumentalism: the selling of citizenship, expanding provisions of external citizenship, and the evolving European Union citizenship as a citizenship without duties.