Publications by Christian Fernández
The civic integrationist turn usually refers to the stricter requirements for residence and citiz... more The civic integrationist turn usually refers to the stricter requirements for residence and citizenship that many states have implemented since the late 1990’s. But what of other policy spheres that are essential for the formation of citizens? Is there a civic turn in school policy? And does it follow the pattern of residence and citizenship? This article addresses these questions through a comparative study of the EU’s allegedly strictest and most liberal immigration regimes, Denmark and Sweden, respectively. The analysis shows a growing concern with citizenship education in both countries, yet with different styles and content. Citizenship education in Denmark concentrates on reproducing a historically derived core of cultural values and knowledge to which minorities are expected to assimilate, while the Swedish model subscribes to a pluralist view that stresses mutual adaptation and intercultural tolerance. Despite claims to the contrary, the analysis shows that Sweden too has experienced a civic turn.
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Europe and the Refugee Response
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Forskningsrapporten ar en studie av den forhandlande subnationella regionen med Skane som empiris... more Forskningsrapporten ar en studie av den forhandlande subnationella regionen med Skane som empirisk fallstudie. Den utforskar betydelsen av forhandlingsmakt i regionaliseringsprocessen genom att gora tre antaganden: 1) Forhandlingar utgor ett centralt inslag i vasteuropeisk regionalisering. 2) Forhallandet mellan stat och region kan beskrivas som ett asymmetriskt beroende, liknande det mellan starka och svaga stater. 3) Regionens anvandning av forhandlingsmakt och strategi gentemot regeringen utovas pa ett satt som overensstammer med svaga staters agerande gentemot starka. Den framgangsrika regionens forhandlingsmakt utgar i forsta hand fran dess overvaldigande beslutsamhet, manifesterad som en stor beredvillighet att investera mangder av tid och energi for att na vissa efterstravade resultat. Den viktigaste forutsattningen for denna beslutsamhet ar en stark inre enighet. Vidare har regionen i kraft av initiativtagare till regionaliseringsprocessen ett overtag nar det galler att pave...
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Under de senaste 20 aren har ordet region gjort ett minst sagt stormande intag i det politiska sp... more Under de senaste 20 aren har ordet region gjort ett minst sagt stormande intag i det politiska spraket ute i Europa, och under det senaste decenniet sa aven i Sverige. I det Europa som haller pa att vaxa fram formodas just regionen spela en alltmer central roll som ett politisk sjalvstyrande omrade mellan den centrala och den lokala nivan. Vilka ideer och tankegangar ar det egentligen som driver denna regionala panyttfodelse? I rapporten Regionalisering och regionalism - Ide, ideologi och politisk verklighet forsoker Fernandez blottlagga det normativa idefundamentet i de senaste arens regionalism, nyregionalismen, och illustrera dess idemassiga inflytande i svensk politik. Forfattaren vander sig framfor allt mot uppfattningen att regionalisering i huvudsak skulle vara ett socioekonomiskt fenomen dar ideer och aktorer har en begransad betydelse. Istallet havdas det att fenomenet i flera avseenden maste forstas som ett politiskt projekt som skapas och underbyggs avaktorer coh deras po...
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Positioning the Liberalization of Swedish School Policy In the public and academic debate, the li... more Positioning the Liberalization of Swedish School Policy In the public and academic debate, the liberalization of Swedish school policy is often equated with privatization and - to a lesser degree - differentiation . The first is associated with the rapid growth of a semi-private free school sector, driven by slogans such as freedom of choice, cost-efficiency, parental influence and market competition. The second is associated with the decentralization of power and goaloriented governance, aiming to achieve a variegated and flexible school system that is better equipped to meet individual needs, interests and preferences. The article examines this widespread conception of the liberalization of Swedish school policy. More precisely, the objective is to position central school policy developments over the last two decades in the liberal field through a tripartite typology. I argue that the mainstream conception exaggerates the privatization type of liberalization, while neglecting anot...
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... Christian Fern??ndez Dr Christian Fern??ndez Department of Political Science, Lund University... more ... Christian Fern??ndez Dr Christian Fern??ndez Department of Political Science, Lund UniversityChristian.Fernandez@svet.lu.se CFE Working papers are available at the website of the Centre for European Studies www.cfe.lu.se Page 2. CFE Working paper series No. 34 ...
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American Journal of Sociology, 2014
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Lund political studies, 2005
This thesis is an attempt to formulate a constructive proposal for the ongoing establishment of a... more This thesis is an attempt to formulate a constructive proposal for the ongoing establishment of a post-national European citizenship in the European Union. To the extent that the proposal is post-national, the ambition is to re-conceptualise the idea and ideal of citizenship in a new historical setting. To the extent that the proposal is constructive, the ambition is to develop and employ a methodology which combines normative and empirical analysis. The aim of the thesis is to make a contribution in each of these fields?with particular emphasis on the first. To achieve this, the thesis is focused on two questions. First, what should post-national citizenship mean? Second, to what extent can the European Union provide the conditions for such a post-national citizenship? The answer to the first question is based on the elaboration of a neo-republican norm and the analysis of the changing empirical conditions and organization of citizenship. The result is a trans-national model of cit...
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Ethnicities
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Citizenship Studies
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On Behalf of Others, 2009
Together but Apart, Equal but Different: On the Claims for Toleration in Multicultural Societies.... more Together but Apart, Equal but Different: On the Claims for Toleration in Multicultural Societies. . ...
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Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2013
Citizenship education is a popular and contested phenomenon in liberal democratic societies. It i... more Citizenship education is a popular and contested phenomenon in liberal democratic societies. It is difficult to imagine a school system that does not contribute to the preservation and improvement of society through education of democratic, responsible and tolerant citizens. On the contrary, the execution of such education is full of caveats, controversy and resistance. This special issue examines the inherent tensions of citizenship education in a variety of national contexts (France, England, Sweden and Quebec) and from several theoretical and empirical perspectives. In this introductory article, we present an overview of the debates on citizenship education in academia and the media and propose a conceptual framework for the categorisation and comparison of the diversity of practices that relate to citizenship education. This model is then used to guide a brief presentation of the remaining articles in the special issue.
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In a famous US court case from 1972, Wisconsin v. Yoder (406 US 205), three families, members of ... more In a famous US court case from 1972, Wisconsin v. Yoder (406 US 205), three families, members of the Old Order Amish religion and the Conservative Amish Mennonite Church, were taken to court by the State of Wisconsin. By removing their children from school at the age of ...
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Abstract Almost 20 years ago, Jürgen Habermas launched the idea of constitutional patriotism as a... more Abstract Almost 20 years ago, Jürgen Habermas launched the idea of constitutional patriotism as a proposed solution to the tension between citizenship and national identity in the European Union. Since then, constitutional patriotism has remained a key concept in ...
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Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2011
What kind of citizenship education, if any, should schools in liberal societies promote? And what... more What kind of citizenship education, if any, should schools in liberal societies promote? And what ends is such education supposed to serve? Over the last decades a respectable body of literature has emerged to address these and related issues. In this state of the debate analysis we examine a sample of journal articles dealing with these very issues spanning a twenty-year period with the aim to analyse debate patterns and developments in the research field. We first carry out a qualitative analysis where we design a two-dimensional theoretical framework in order to systematise the various liberal debate positions, and make us able to study their justifications, internal tensions and engagements with other positions. In the ensuing quantitative leg of the study we carry out a quantitative bibliometric analysis where we weigh the importance of specific scholars. We finally discuss possible merits and flaws in the research field, as evidenced in and by the analysis.
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