My tangents tend to go all over the place. Today’s came from a website that recommended I read an article on early modern citizenship and contemporary parallels.
A phrase or two stuck out to me as I read.
Commitment to citizenship is often accompanied by ideals/virtues of how we should live in the community. Further, when you confer and police the virtues of this citizenship, the group often claims to produce those virtues in the citizens. This is claimed to be done foremost through education. At the same time, the culture of a group can only be cultivated outside the school.
I then replaced “church membership” for the talk about citizenship. An interesting exercise.
OK, being the library geek that I am, here is the citation: Gordon, Andrew and Stack, Trevor (2007) ‘Citizenship Beyond
the State: Thinking with Early Modern Citizenship in the Contemporary World’,
Citizenship Studies, 11:2, 117 – 133