Böcker av Antje Wiener

Antje Wiener develops the concept of citizenship practice; the process of policymaking and/or political participation which contributes to creating the terms of citizenship. It advances a discursive analysis of citizenship practice based on the comparative social, historical literatures.

The resulting theory of contestation entails four main features, namely types of norms, modes of contestation, segments of norms and the cycle of contestation.

"Although great efforts have been made to understand citizenship, it has remained a contested concept, largely because of the problem of the changing relationship between citizens and their community o"