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Whither European Citizenship?

Eros and Civilization Revisited

Cris Shore

UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

A claim frequently made about European Citizenship is that by decoupling ‘rights’ from ‘identity’ it challenges us to rethink the classical Westphalian model of citizenship. According to some EU scholars and constitutional experts, this beckons a new form of ‘supranational’ citizenship practice based not on emotional attachments to territory and cultural affinities (‘Eros’), but to the rights and values of a civil society – or what Habermas calls ‘constitutional patriotism’. This article uses anthropological insights to critique these arguments and to analyse the EU’s own citizenship-building policies and practices. It concludes that rights cannot be meaningfully divorced from identity and that citizenship devoid of emotion is neither feasible nor desirable. Finally, it considers the idea of ‘post-national democracy’ and what this might entail in a modern European context.

Key Words: citizenship • constitutional patriotism • European Union • post-national democracy

European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 7, No. 1, 27-44 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1368431004040018
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