Debating Citizenship

Shaping Citizenship : A Political Concept in Theory, Debate, and Practice

The politics of citizenship tests : time, integration and the contingent polity

Theorising Citizenship

The distant present

Introduction, Tuula Vaarakallio & Taru Haapala, 4 Taking Distance as a Condition of the Study of Politics, Kari Palonen, 12 Anti-Parliamentarism of the French Front National Party, Tuula Vaarakallio, 28 The Rhetoric of National Emergency: 9/11 versus Weimar Republic, Anna Kronlund , 48 The Mockery of Adbusters Magazine in the Classical Tradition of Political Rhetoric, Taru Haapala, 71 “Time to be heard”: The Rhetorical Strategies of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, Anna Björk, 90 ‘Dubliners’ in the European Union – A Perspective on the Politics of Asylum-Seeking, Hanna-Mari Kivistö, 106 Notes on Contributors, 129

An attempt to seize the political occasion : a study dealing with time in the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition

Introduction: Shaping Citizenship as a Political Concept

Muutosten aikoja : juhlakirja Tapani Turkalle

Accessing Citizenship: The Conceptual and Political Changes of the German Naturalization Policy, 1999–2006

This article deals explicitly with the dimension of access in the concept of citizenship and is discussed from the point of view of migration. Access is analyzed in the context of the reform of German citizenship laws in 1999. The state of Hesse is singled out to be used as an example of parliamentary debate on the concepts of citizenship and integration. The point is to explicate the interrelations of the federal legislative reform and the conceptual implications thereof, using a statelevel example (Hesse). peerReviewed