American Citizenship as a Tensional Field

• In Event: Citizenship, Inclusion, and Belonging

Brief Overview

We offer an interpretation of liberal citizenship where citizens must balance loyalty to their partisan visions of the common good with the need to cooperate with opponents in sustaining a common world by cultivating the civic virtue of poise.

Authors

• Larry Wayne Chappell, Mississippi Valley State University

• Arthur Rhydon Jackson, Independent Researcher