Active Citizenship: A Challenge to the Political Orthodoxy

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Active Citizenship: A Challenge to the Political Orthodoxy

Original language description

Like in the previous century, there continues to be a confrontational relationship between most governments and their citizenries in the twenty-first century. Civil rights movements, political activism, and now social media have created frameworks and platforms to develop and improve the socio-political awareness of the citizenry to criticise, coordinate, and rebel against the government. Usually, the response of the government, despite the name, has been violence, including police brutality and victimisation of activists. In this paper, I attempt to use the social contract theory to offer a theoretical framework within which we can also understand this hostile relationship. In the social contract theory, government and civil society are conceptualised to assume superior moral and political authority over the citizenry. This traditional political arrangement, political orthodoxy, makes the citizens susceptible to victimisation and exploitation. It becomes evident that these political insurgencies and insurrections, like civil rights movements, are indicative of active citizenship, interrogating or challenging the political orthodoxy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Kritika &amp; kontext

ISSN

1335-1710

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

102-115

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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