Società Mutamento Politica. Italian Sociology Review (ISSN 2038-3150)

Call for papers – SMP issue no. 13 (1/2016)

‘Citizenship. People, institutions and society of our times’

Edited by Lorenzo Grifone Baglioni – University of Florence

Citizenship is a very topical issue, not only as a concept, but also an institution which relates to a number of social issues: old and new rights, collective memberships, economic inequalities, cultural differences, welfare and identifications. Today, status differences seem to pose barriers once again. At the European level, citizenship reflects benefits and threats, the ‘other modernities’ do not seem attracted by citizenship, while the cuts to welfare reduce the effectiveness of citizens’ actions and undermine their quality of life. Not surprisingly, citizenship is today hypothesized to become ‘light’, although still hard to access by foreigners, in opposition to Thomas H. Marshall’s vision. Still, ‘citizenship’ is a widely used concept in the social sciences, because of its great evocative power, as a kind of a summary of Europe’s social and political quintessence. Citizenship is evoked when discussing civicness, participation, nationality, or community. As a consequence we risk an abuse of a suggestive and almost monumental concept. In effect, ‘citizenship’ and its inherent contradictions are now not only a source of conceptual wealth, but also of confusion.

The purpose of the 13th special issue of SMP is thus to focus on the concept of citizenship, on its meaning, its use, its theoretical and empirical scope, highlighting the added value of sociological analysis of citizenship. Theoretical papers and, in particular, research contributions from the field are welcome. The topics will include: rights, perceptions and images of citizenship, gender, socio-economic inequalities, welfare and social services, local accounts, relationships between cultures, migrants and asylum seekers, Europe and its citizenships, the historical-social and the current status of citizenship.
Please note that the publication of SMP is subject to a peer review procedure.

Abstracts, papers and queries should be addressed to: baglioni@fimes.eu
Abstract (including main bibliography) submission deadline: June 15th, 2015.
Papers in Italian, English and French will be accepted. Brief biographical note and an abstract (min 2500 / max 3000 characters) should be sent with papers. Deadline for paper submission is November 15th, 2015.

The volume will be published on April 15th, 2016.

The editorial guidelines are available at:
http://www.fupress.net/public/journals/33/smp_norme_eng.pdf

Previous volumes are available at:
http://www.fupress.net/index.php/smp