In a globalized world, the need for orientation, self-localization and negotiation of individual group memberships as well as the requirements for the self-determined action of individuals are increasing. The analysis of these processes of socialization from the perspective of inclusion and citizenship reveals increasing options for action, opportunities for personal and institutional learning and possibilities for increased sustainability as well as inevitable tensions between inclusion and exclusion, grueling dilemmas between competing normative demands and paradoxes in the structure of socialization processes that block action. The various projects of the interdisciplinary Center for Inclusive Citizenship (CINC) at the Leibniz Universität Hannover are dedicated to the investigation of these processes from educational, historical, political science, special education, sociological and didactic perspectives.
Citizenship as (legal) status configuration
- Group-specific configurations of (non-) membership
- normalization
Citizenship as civic practice
- bottom-up-perspective
- "Acts of Citizenship"
Citizenship, understood at the CINC as a duality of civic status and civic practice, is itself always in a dichotomous state between desired or propagated inclusion and actual co-produced exclusion. Citizenship refers to both membership status and membership roles in a socialization process. In terms of status and practice, citizenship controls specific configurations of exclusion and inclusion across different socialization processes.
These two approaches are examined from different perspectives in the various research clusters.
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Call for Papers - International Conference: Inclusive Citizenship as Belongings, Practices and Acts
29 September – 1 October 2022, Leibniz University Hannover
The inaugural International Conference of the Leibniz Research Center for Inclusive Citizenship (CINC) and the Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Citizenship look forward to jointly examining various aspects of inclusion and citizenship as belongings, practices and acts, at this forthcoming event. With the aim to facilitate a theoretical discussion and presentation of empirical findings, this interdisciplinary conference will consider citizenship and inclusion as social practices from a range of perspectives, such as: Gender and migration, learning and education, digitalisation, medicine and cultural heritage.
The call for Paper and Poster proposals is open from now until 01 June 2022!
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Call for Papers - International Conference: Inclusive Citizenship as Belongings, Practices and Acts
29 September – 1 October 2022, Leibniz University Hannover
The inaugural International Conference of the Leibniz Research Center for Inclusive Citizenship (CINC) and the Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Citizenship look forward to jointly examining various aspects of inclusion and citizenship as belongings, practices and acts, at this forthcoming event. With the aim to facilitate a theoretical discussion and presentation of empirical findings, this interdisciplinary conference will consider citizenship and inclusion as social practices from a range of perspectives, such as: Gender and migration, learning and education, digitalisation, medicine and cultural heritage.
The call for Paper and Poster proposals is open from now until 01 June 2022!