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Changing Societies: Citizenship, Participation and Power
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The key focus of the research group "Changing Societies: Citizenship, Participation and Power" is the social and political processes that are involved in defining citizenship rights, conditioning active participation, shaping identity formation and organizing interaction between individuals, ad-hoc-groups, civil society organizations, market and state. This involve analyses and theorizing of the new and changing conditions for provision of social benefits and services, critic and democratic participation, including the impact of these on justice, recognition, equality, trust, active citizenship, identity formation, solidarity and social cohesion.
The research is based on an understanding of citizenship, which in addition to rights to become a full member of society includes active citizenship, issues of access to citizenship and relations of belonging. Consequently, subjective feelings of belonging must be aligned with politics of belonging, and the competencies for and courage to active citizenship understood as shaped in everyday practices. Active citizenship comprises influence on decision-making as well as inclusion in the social practices of the community/society. Thus, beyond the significance of the realization of democratic rights more generally, the shaping of citizenship is strongly dependent on social participation in all spheres of everyday life as well as in innovation of policies and practices with regard to more complex issues, e.g. technology and clima. The arenas of such social participation include the labour market, the family arena, peer groups and community networks as well as civic, public and private institutions. Through this approach the research group moves beyond a conceptualisation of citizenship as being an issue which exclusively concerns "status", towards encompassing social and political processes of learning and identity formation, i.e. sense making, with the significance of formal rights as an accompanying perspective.
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