Civic Relations Research Articles

“Say It in Broken English”: The Languages of Border Crossing and Hospitality

Drawing on Derrida’s and Ricoeur’s theories of language and hospitality, the author takes up the problem of the hostility embedded in the discourses of welcome when it comes to migrants’ experiences of border regimes and border practices. “Broken English,” in this context, represents a site of conflict: a vehicular language to be avoided or overcome, a “language of refuge,” even a means of forming a community. To explore language as alternative terrain to be policed or an opening to be exploited, the author considers how civil-society art projects involving immigrants and refugees might enable new civic relationships. Focusing on the Shoe Project, a storytelling and performance workshop for immigrant and refugee women, the author asks to what extent the project is about helping the stranger speak like “us” and to what extent it can open space for a different kind of immigration story from those imposed by the legal languages of immigration.

The Saints and the State: The Mormon Troubles in Illinois

The Saints and the State: The Mormon Troubles in Illinois

New Books across the Disciplines

New Books across the Disciplines

Literacy education for citizenship across the lifespan

The task of English language and literacy education to define citizenship, and shape citizens, has rarely been more compelling or more challenging than it is today. Globally and nationally, our civic response to COVID-19 has catapulted us into a world where our rights as and responsibilities as citizens are being fundamentally re-negotiated at the same time as we come to rely on technologically mediated literate practice to connect a world that is more spatially and temporally separated than many of us have ever known it to be. We are challenged to remake our identities and commit to new kinds of personal and civic relationships—nationally and globally—as we try to navigate uncharted waters. Our focus here is on the role that literacy education plays in understanding and defining active citizenship in a turbulent context in which foundational literacy practices are transforming just as accepted understandings of active citizenship are under challenge. We direct our attention specifically to the distinctive role that literacy practice plays in the production of identities and relationships and consider new ways for literacy education to build active citizenship across the lifespan from early education through primary and secondary education through to workforce education.

Citizenship as Civic Relationship: U.M. v Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade [2022] IESC 25

Citizenship as Civic Relationship: U.M. v Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade [2022] IESC 25

Michigan Local Government Leaders Say Civic Relationships and Civil Discourse Remain Healthy, Despite Worsening National Politics

Michigan Local Government Leaders Say Civic Relationships and Civil Discourse Remain Healthy, Despite Worsening National Politics

The relationships between participation in intercultural activities on campus, whole-person development, and academic achievement: a mixed-methods study

ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of the worldwide prevalence and importance of internationalisation in higher education, the mixed-methods study examined the relationships between tertiary-level learners’ on-campus intercultural activity participation (e.g. intercultural talks and workshops), seven aspects of whole-person development (civic responsibility, cultural engagement, intellectual capacity, peer relationship, community care, leadership, and self-appreciation), and academic performance. A questionnaire was distributed to 518 participants studying at two universities in Hong Kong. No positive relationship was found between participation and academic achievement. However, participation was positively correlated with all aspects of whole-person development. Community care and cultural engagement had the strongest correlations with participation. Following an explanatory sequential design, 18 of these participants were invited for a follow-up interview to expound on the findings based on their experiences, observations and understanding of their peers. The article ends with a discussion of the findings and implications for intercultural learning and teaching in higher education.

Thomas Elyot’s The Castel of Helth: Good Health and Good Counsel

Thomas Elyot’s <i>The Castel of Helth</i>: Good Health and Good Counsel

ECONOMY OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES: DREAM OR NECESSITY

The purpose of the paper is a systematic approach to both, the relationship between economic growth, development inclusiveness, competitiveness, and the formulation of social and economic policies in the context of inclusive development, becomes an important task. The article justifies the need for creating prerequisites for inclusive growth through a radical change in public and political governance systems. It is necessary to create an inclusive infrastructure that ensures equitable access to public goods: health, education, transportation, access to information, communication, justice, security, environmental sustainability. The relevance of the study of inclusive growth is due to the aggravation of problems associated with a decrease in the pace of economic development, social tensions in society, international conflicts, as well as consequences of the global cyclical crisis. The current economic crisis is structural and is associated with a change of technological paradigm, which involves the transformation of economic resources from the sphere of low productivity to the sphere of high productivity. The analytical base of the study is the country rankings by economic development, human development, quality and satisfaction with life, the level of openness of the society, which are represented by international organizations and agencies. Based on a systematic approach methodology, the relationship between economic growth, development inclusiveness and competitiveness has been identified, which has made it possible to justify the need to transform the model of economic development with regard to the role of the person in the sixth technological K-wave. The results of such a study will justify proposals in terms of an inclusive growth model that complexly reflects the relationships between production, circulation, consumption and accumulation, between income, expenditure and final demand, between savings and investment, etc. It has been proven that the goals of inclusive growth are achieved through a high level of civic identity, enhanced partnerships, interregional relationships and social integration.

Can Our Schools Help Us Preserve Democracy? Special Challenges at a Time of Shifting Norms.

Civic education that prepares students for principled civic participation is vital to democracy. Schools face significant challenges, however, as they attempt to educate for democracy in a democracy in crisis. Parents, educators, and policy-makers disagree about what America's civic future should look like, and hence about what schools should teach. Likewise, hyperpartisanship, mutual mistrust, and the breakdown of democratic norms are perverting the kinds of civic relationships and values that schools want to model and achieve. Nonetheless, there is strong evidence that young people want to be civically engaged and are hungry for more and better civic learning opportunities. Reviving the civic mission of schools is thus a win-win-win. Adults want it, youth want it, and democracy needs it. We propose three means by which educators and the public can reconstruct our common purpose and achieve civic innovation to help democracy in crisis: support action civics, strengthen youth leadership outside the classroom, and engage both students and adults with "hard history" and contemporary controversies.

Future of North American Pentecostalism

Abstract This essay proposes first to chart the future of the pentecostal-charismatic movement in North America in terms of demographers’ projection of the movement’s numerical growth and other factors. Demographic growth is related to the continual arrival, in the near future, of pentecostal-charismatic Christians, other Christians, and potential converts to North America by way of diasporas mostly associated with the Global South. Second, within North America, these diasporas will continue to form transnational pentecostal-charismatic denominations with their international headquarters located in a country of the Global South. Related to these diasporas will be the further development of multiracial denominations led by American and Canadian citizens in North America. Third, the presence of transnational and multiracial denominations could prompt a reconfiguration of the movement, reshaping the religious infrastructure, racial politics, and post-secular engagement of the pentecostal-charismatic movement in North America. These demographic shifts offer the movement an opportunity to re-engage racial politics away from White supremacy with a critical use of the Racial Reconciliation Manifesto of the 1990s. Such a re-engagement could offer a sector within the pentecostal-charismatic movement a way to exit its alliance with the Christian Right, to participate with pentecostal-charismatic Christians of color in reconstituting the movement on the basis of the gospel rather than race, and to partner with secularists in generating post-secular sensibilities animated by post-racist practices that cultivate amicable civic relationships.

Civil Relationship of Children Born without Marriage with Biological Father based on Constitutional Court Decision Number 46/PUU-VIII/2010

The purpose of this study is to analyze the civil relationship between the children born without marriage with his biological father and the arrangement about the civil relationship between the children whose mothers did not have marriage. This study is a normative juridical which is the approach used in this is is the statute approach, the case approach, and the conceptual approach. The legal material comes from document studies. This study is analyzed qualitatively. The results of this study showed that the children born outside marriage initially have only a civil relationship with their mother and mother's family according to Article 43 of Law Number 1 of 1974 concerning Marriage on what is meant by a child outside of marriage but with the Constitutional Court Decision Number 46/PUU-VIII/ 2010, then a child born outside marriage can have a civil relationship with father and his father's family. The father and mother have rights and obligations to the born, even if the child is born outside of marriage. In this study, it can be concluded that children born without marriage have civil relations with their biological father as stipulated in Decision of the Constitutional Court Number 46 / PUU-VIII / 2010. The arrangement of civic relationships between children whose mothers are not married as in Law Number 1 of 1974 on Marriage, but by Decision of the Constitutional Court Number 46/PUU-VIII/2010, the child has a civil relationship with his mother and father.

Conflict, Profit, Bias, Misuse of Power: Dimensions of Governance

Norms prohibiting conflicts of interest apply in private fiduciary relationships and also to many public office holders. Whether or not such relationships are founded on trust, such norms can cultivate trust towards those holding governance authority, whether in interpersonal, civic or political relationships. In legal and philosophical discourse, however, conflicts of interest are rarely carefully defined. It has become a commonplace that ‘not every breach of duty by a fiduciary is a breach of fiduciary duty’. We must now go on to realize that ‘not every improper action by one who must avoid conflicts of interest is a conflict of interest’. A conflict of interest arises when duty- bound judgment is exercised in the presence of a conflicting interest. There can be conflicts that are not conflicts of interest; and there can be potential conflicts as well as actual ones. The simple misuse of power is not itself conflict of interest; on the contrary, it is the problem that the rules that forbid acting in a conflict situation aim to avoid. Bias is not identical with conflict of interest, although some kinds of bias arise from conflicts. Unauthorized profits are none of the above. They represent a different dimension of the relationship: not the supervision of powers, but the simple fact that when acting for another, one may not extract benefits for oneself. The rules about conflicts can foster trust in proper decision-making, while the rule against unauthorized profits can foster trust in the proper separation between a person’s private and official actions.

Culture in Western Diplomacy

What could be more antithetical than the alliance of the words “culture” and “political power”? Yet, for over fifty years, the process of European integration has been linking these opposing concepts. European culture, ‘a sort of UFO’ for most Europeans and it has become a major political and philosophical issue. Given their political and strategic importance so-called ‘geo-cultural’ issues have been called upon to constitute, along with geopolitical and economic issues, a governance axis. The European Union’s current mode of cultural action, intrinsic to national policies, is unable to address these issues. Indeed, the EU should completely rethink its conception and political implication of culture, and recognize its great importance, both for the success of European integration, and for the new civic relationships which are developing today in local, national and global communities.

Prigimtinės tvarkos idėja kaip Mykolo Pranciškaus Karpavičiaus politinio mąstymo pagrindas

IDEA OF NATURAL ORDER AS A BASIS FOR POLITICAL THINKING IN THE SERMONS OF MYKOLAS PRANCIŠKUS KARPAVIČIUS Analysis of the idea of natural order in the sermons of Mykolas Pranciškus Karpavičius (Michał Franciszek Karpowicz, 1744–1803) is presented in the article. M. P. Karpavičius in his sermons elucidated societal relations emphasising natural law. In his teachings social state was understood as an outcome of a divine organisation and meant that a human being – a social member of the society, with a gift of natural reason – has to make decisions that create his wellbeing. Such an explication where society is attributed to natural order was a main pillar upon which his political thought rested. It encompassed the goal of the upbringing of a rational and reasonable individual, which by itself connected aspects of both religious and secular life. M. P. Karpavičius’ sermons have to be understood in the context of physiocratic political tradition, which accentuated the preference of the nation through its natural rights and liberties which require the political contract in order to achieve security and safety of one’s property. Following the reasoning that social condition stems from the natural order, M. P. Karpavičius upheld the physiocratic ideals while naming the principles of authority. According to him, authority is needed to ensure security, prosperity and justice of the society. Being a Catholic enlightener he emphasised that the main task of any government, no matter its form, is to protect the natural rights. In its essence this argument remains physiocratic, emphasising the basic tenets of life, property and justice. Accentuating the natural order and Christian values, he taught that duties accepted as upheld laws are a continuation of the natural order and natural condition stemming from citizen’s obligations related to the established society. In the sphere of political thinking this allowed to emphasise the nobility’s obligations towards the body politic as an inherent part of their citizenship, and at the same time depreciate their political privileges. Out of the principles of the natural order consistently followed the concept of natural liberty, which allowed the implementation of the functions of natural right. This concept of liberty together with directions to uphold laws and societal duties directly influenced the understanding of noble liberty, because enlightened teaching encouraged to rethink its limits. M. P. Karpavičius emphasised differences between rational liberty and licence, explaining that reasonable liberty in the enlightened society has to be restricted. Natural liberty was understood as a liberty limited by the law ensuring political existence of the nation. The guarantee of such liberty assured the security of justice and law abiding citizens. Licence and anarchy were presented as opposition to the interests of the state and society leading the state to a demise. Antithesis to licence and anarchy relied on a simple argument of aspiration to have order in the state and was elucidated as rational liberty. Universal education was understood as an instrument in upbringing of the civil society, which understands the limits of its freedom and its duties. Meaning of such a concept of citizenship manifested itself as a rational reflection of the civic existence. It emphasised the principles of natural order and civic duties, criticised licence and established an idea of rational liberty. Supporting such a concept M. P. Karpavičius emphased citizenship as engagement towards the state and God. Such understanding was connected to the goals of state prosperity, was named love of motherland and was traced not to the noble heritage, but to duties stemming from the natural order. Being a citizen meant upholding one’s duties and in this way securing one’s life, liberty and prosperity. Civic relationship stemming from nature was understood as the only incentive needed in order to uphold the relationship itself. Sermons by M. P. Karpavičius can be identified as a local programme for citizen upbringing emphasizing goals of state prosperity. Emphasis on citizenship was directed towards foundation of the will of the nation, understood as a common and public matter. The upbringing of citizens was understood as an inseparable part of the teaching on how to be a proper nation. It was a goal to change individuals that think only about their own wellbeing into citizens that care about the common good. Keywords: Michał Franciszek Karpowicz, natural order, social state, liberty, citizenship.

Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home

Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home

The Refugees We Are: Solidarity in the European Constitutional Imagination

The Refugees We Are: Solidarity in the European Constitutional Imagination

How Can we Achieve a Sustainable Redistributive Policy? Rethinking the Relationship Between Civic Engagement, Neighborhood Relationship and Labor Market Status

The aim of this article is to examine the effect of social relations on support for redistribution and to explore desirable forms of redistribution based on mutual understanding. Most previous studies have explained support for redistribution as insurance against risk or the pursuit of self-interest. Under the current framework, however, it is difficult to explain the establishment of a sustainable redistributive policy. To overcome this limitation, I focus on the role of social relations that suppress the tendency to pursue self-interest and promote support for redistribution. My findings indicate that social relations moderate the effect of self-interest and directly affect support for redistribution. From this result, I conclude that social relations could facilitate mutual understanding and alleviate the negative side effects of the labor market.

Social Media as a Public Values Sphere

This article presents a schematic illustrating the role of social media in adjudicating public values. Such values reflect the expectations, entitlements, and civic relationships among as well as between citizens and public institutions. Such tools have become more influential in shaping civic engagement, civic identity, and political discourse—all of which reflect public values. The schematic illustrates that the advent of a current event with implicit public values will initiate several types of communication among social media users: antagonistic, critical, affirming, action-oriented, and indoctrinating. Subsequently, public values will either change, become further entrenched or new ones will emerge through coalescence, divergence, or emergence.

KEWARISAN ANAK LUAR KAWIN (STUDI ATAS PUTUSAN MAHKAMAH KONSTITUSI NOMOR 46/PUU-VIII/2010)

The issue of Constitutional Court Decision Number 46/PUU-VIII/2010 concerning the status of children outside of marriage has a great influence on the laws and regulations in Indonesia, especially the Marriage Law. The substance of this Constitutional Court ruling changed the category of legitimate children as understood by applicable law as well as Islamic law. An outsider who has been considered an illegitimate child, based on the decision of the Constitutional Court is categorized as a legitimate child, thus having a civic relationship with his biological father. This article explains the implications of the decision of the Constitutional Court's Decision, especially in relation to the civil rights of its inheritance. The focus of the discussion on two things, namely how the inheritance of children outside of marriage and how the view of Islamic law on his inheritance. The results of this study reveal two things. First, after the Decision of the Constitutional Court Number 46/PUU-VIII /2010, an outsider or child born of sirri marriage or not being registered shall be entitled to inheritance, if it has been justified by the Court. Between father and son have a blood relationship and the child is classified as a legitimate child. Second, the inheritance of children outside marriage or who are born of sirri marriage or not registered can only be done through a will. This is because the child can only be attributed to his mother and is not counted as the heir of his father.