Ours is not an era of global knowledge which undermines and mortifies local knowledge and the participation and involvement of citizens in the government of public goods. On the contrary, the idea of rationality is increasingly been thought of as a sort of patchwork, the result of an operation of «sewing» between local and circumscribed rationality spaces which must be put in reciprocal communication through the availability of a common language and a shared background. It is not by chance that a model of «connective intelligence» is emerging, whose main goal is the identification of distributive or common knowledge and the analysis and translation underway of modalities and courses, through which each of them acquires the capacity to reason about one’s own knowledge and viewpoints, but also those of others. The concept of citizenship must therefore be rethought in the light of these developments. only subscribers can see the full article

What are the rights and duties of citizens who live outside their country? Political theory so far has concentrated on the access of immigrants to the citizenship of countries where they settle, and has dealt little with their relations with their country of origin. External citizenship is, however, increasingly important for a large number of migrants as well as for the countries of origin, many of which have radically changed their attitude towards the expatriates. I have proposed the criterion of stakeholders to define those who should be able to request the status and rights of external citizenship. This article summarizes how this reasoning refers to the acquisition and loss of citizenship outside the territory of a state, to the right of return and the right to vote abroad, and the duties connected with citizenship, such as military service, paying taxes and the duty to vote.only subscribers can see the full article

After explaining the links between reproductive freedom and wo-men’s individuation dynamics, the author discusses reproductive rights as rights of citizenship. She focuses on reproductive freedom as a crystallization of the demand for political, civil and social rights and their transformation from rights of citizenship into human rights in the framework of the international conferences organized by the United Nations.only subscribers can see the full article

I want first of all to concentrate on one important aim that has guided Rps in organising this Forum on welfare integration: placing the accent on the concept of «integration» rather than on that of «social-health», understood as a system of services, and this aim is particularly important for me. We can talk about welfare integration in various ways, meaning aspects that are also very different and potentially in conflict with each other. On the one hand, we hear talk of social-health integration as if it were the more or less official name for a sector, a synonym of the social-health sector, that accompanies the health and the care sectors. only subscribers can see the full article