SÜLEYMAN ŞAH UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
SYLLABUS
INSTRUCTOR: ASSOC. PROF. MAYA ARAKON
Office: C1-419
Extension: 4651
Email: marakon@ssu.edu.tr
Office Hours: Monday 10:00-11:00 (Please Take an Appointment via Email)
Tuesday 10:00-11:00 (Please Take an Appointment via Email)
1) COURSE TITLE
IRE 284 – CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRACY
2) COURSE DESCRIPTION
In the past few decades, we have experienced a major trend in Western nationstates toward the formation of new claims for inclusion and belonging. More
recently, this trend has reflected around the world from Zapatistas to Basque and
Kurdish nationalists, setting their struggles in the claims of rights and
recognition. From ancient Greek and Roman peasants and to Italian artisans and
French workers, expressing claims of recognition has always invoked the ideal of
citizenship. But today, the newness lies in the economic, social and cultural
conditions that make possible the expression of new claims and the content and
forms of these claims as citizenship rights.
3) COURSE OBJECTIVES
The aim of this course is to analyze new framework of citizenship through the
chapters such as political, economic, social, cultural citizenships as well as
modern, liberal, republican, multicultural, post-national and cosmopolitan
concepts of citizenship and the relation of these with democracy.
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4) COURSE REQUIREMENTS
The lecture and exams will be in English. For this reason, fluency in English is
essential. Students should follow the world political events and make an analysis
of them within the democratic understanding context. Discussions about world
affairs which link citizenship studies to the democratic progresses necessitate the
students to keep themselves up to date. So the follow up of international
magazines is a must. There will be given reading handouts, so the student is
required to come to the course prepared.
5) EVALUATION
Mid-term exam: 40 points (2 quizzes of 10% each, 1 paper of 10% and a midterm
exam of 10%)
Final exam: 60 points (1 quiz of 20% and the final exam of 40%)
Attendance, discussions and course participation: Bonus points.
6) READING MATERIAL
Books:
Course Books:

Handbook of Citizenship Studies, eds. Engin ISIN and Bryan S. TURNER,
Sage Publications, 2002.

Küreselleşme, Avrupalılaşma ve Türkiye’de Vatandaşlık, Der. E. Fuat
Keyman ve Ahmet İçduygu, Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2009.
Additional Readings:
1. Globalization, Citizenship and the War on Terror, eds. Maurice Mullard
and Bankole A. Cole, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
2. People out of Place-Globalization, Human Rights and Citizenship Gap, eds.
Allison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, Routledge, 2004.
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3. War, Citizenship and Territory, eds. Deborah Cowen and Emily Gilbert,
Routledge, 2008.
4. Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict- Challenging the Nation-State, ed. Haldun
Gülalp, Routledge, 2006.
5. Citizenship in Contemporary Europe, Michael Lister and Emily Pia,
Edinburgh University Press, 2008
6. Nation-Building
and
Citizenship,
Reinhard
Bendix,
University
of
California Press, 1977.
7. Citizenship in Diverse Societies, eds. Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman,
Oxford University Press, 2003.
8. Öteki olmak, ötekiyle yaşamak-Siyaset Kuramı Yazıları, Jürgen Habermas,
YapıKredi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2002.
9. Avrupa Birliği, Demokrasi ve Laiklik, Haz. Cengiz Çağla ve Haldun
Gülalp, Metis, İstanbul 2010.
10. Çokkültürlü Yurttaşlık, Will Kymlicka, Ayrıntı, İstanbul 1998.
A selection of Articles:
1. Piotr Perczynsky and Maarten Vink (2002); “Citizenship and Democracy: A
Journey to Europe’s Past”, Citizenship Studies, 6:2, 183-199.
2. Sarah Song (2009); “Democracy and noncitizen voting rights”, Citizenship
Studies, 13:6, 607-620.
3. Francesca Mazzolari (2009), “Dual Citizenship Rights: Do They Make More
and Richer Citizens?” Demography, Vol. 46, No. 1, 169-191.
4. Marylin Friedman, (2000), “Educating for World Citizenship”, Ethics, Vol.
110, No. 3, 586-601.
5. Martha C. Nussbaum, (2006), “Education and Democratic Citizenship:
Capabilities and Quality Education”, Journal of Human Development, 7:3,
385-395.
6. Paulina Tambakaki, (2009), “From citizenship to human rights: the stakes
for democracy”, Citizenship Studies, 13:1, 3-15.
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7) COURSE PLAN
1st week: Introduction to Citizenship studies: What is citizenship?
2nd week: Political citizenship: Foundation of Rights
3rd week: Economic citizenship: Threats of globalization
4th week: Social citizenship: Grounds of social change
5th week: Quiz 1 / Ancient citizenship and modern citizenship
6th week: Liberal citizenship and Republican citizenship
7th week: Communitarianism and citizenship
8th week: Cultural and multicultural citizenship
9th week: Quiz 2 and paper / Ecological citizenship
10th week: Religion and politics: the elementary forms of citizenship
11th week: Towards post-national and Denationalized citizenship
12th week: Quiz 3 / City, Democracy and Citizenship: Historical images and
contemporary practices
13th week: Cosmopolitan citizenship
14th week: Final exam.
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