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The formal enshrinement of European citizenship left its mark in theoretical and scholarly reflection on citizenship in general. In particular, European citizenship seemed to support the views of those arguing in favour of post-national characterisations of membership, and to undermine the case of most traditional theories of citizenship. The chapter first presents the citizenship turn in political theory and the main ideas brought forward by it, among them the inherent promise of European citizenship as the first truly post-national citizenship status. One important argument concerns the possible problems of “disembedded” theories; theories that fail to understand the breadth and scope of new as well as enduring practices of citizenship. This argument is taken further when the case of European citizenship is discussed. Special emphasis is put on the problems related to disregarding the membership- and community-aspects of territorially bounded and politically conditioned citizenship in general which emerged from the early 1990s onwards. In this part, we further address the fragmentation of European citizenship into different personal statuses, as well as its demarcation against third country nationals. The chapter ends, then, with a plea for a more “grounded” approach to the study of European citizenship.
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Menéndez, A.J., Olsen, E.D.H. (2020). From Practice to Theory: Academic Discourses of European Citizenship. In: Challenging European Citizenship. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22281-9_5
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