Changing societies: legacies and challenges. Vol. 2. Citizenship in crisis

Abstract

This volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on citizenship in a time of crisis​. Crisis has been a word recurrently used to describe political and social processes in Portugal, Europe and elsewhere, but one that deserves further analysis.​ The main goal of this volume is to discuss the ways in which citizenship, its exercise and our understanding of what it means to be a citizen, has evolved in the context of these events​. Taken together, these chapters provide a snapshot of the ongoing research on citizenship in crisis at the ICS-UL in the last decade. We hope that this volume will contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge on the contemporary challenges to citizenship. It is an issue of great public interest, insofar as it deals with the open-ended debate about the quality and nature of democracy in the 21st century​.