Citizenship as Stability and Change: Exploring Technologies of American Virtue and Belonging

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar II

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Animated by the issue of what is being asked or expected of American citizens and how that happens, this panel explores the how technologies, models, and ideals of citizenship in the contemporary United States draw on both stability and change. In response to various crises, long-standing notions of citizenship including sacrifice, style, responsibility, and allegiance are routed toward change and yet echo the legacy of ‘traditional’ American values.

Sub Unit

• Scholar to Scholar Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Images of Sacrifice/ Models of Citizenship - William Lewis, Drake University

• Making Over the Body: The Style of the Consumer-Citizen - Shana Heinricy, Xavier University

• Localizing Citizenship: Tracing the Pedagogy of American Membership through the Language of Neighborhood - Julie Borkin, Oakland University

Session Organizer

• Julie Borkin, Oakland University