European Identity and Citizenship

Sanja Ivic is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Serbia. She completed her Postdoctoral research at the University of Paris 10, France. Her publications include books and articles on various subjects in the field of European studies.

• Introduction.- Chapter I MODERNIST AND POSTMODERNIST ACCOUNT ON IDENTITY.- Introduction.- 1. 1. Hermeneutic Approaches to Subjectivity.- 1.2. The Critique of Modernist Idea of Subjectivity: Hume and Feminist Thinkers on Identity.- 1.3. Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Suspicion as a Critique of Modernist Concept of Identity.- 1.4. Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Concept of Identity.- Conclusion.- Chapter II PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS OF CITIZENSHIP.- Introduction.- 2.1. Aristotle’s Conception of Citizenship: Citizenship as Active Participation.- 2.2. Modern Liberal Concept of Citizenship.- 2.3. Postmodern and Postnational Concepts of Citizenship.- 2.4. New Ethics of Citizenship: Ethics of Care.- Conclusion.- Chapter III THE CONCEPT OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP.- Introduction.- 3.1. EU Citizenship: Towards the Postmodern Concept of Citizenship?.- 3.2. EU Citizenship as a Mental Construct: Mental Maps of Keeping In and Keeping Out.- 3.3. Poststructuralist Feminist Critique of European Law.- 3.4. The Concept of EU Citizenship within the European Public Discourse.- 3.5. Demographic Change in the European Union: A Challenge to EU Citizenship and European Identity.- Conclusion.- Chapter IV The European Identity