IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-24488-7_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Citizen and the State: A Progressively Subversive, State-Determined, and ICT-Mediated Relationship

In: Citizenship

Author

Listed:
  • Nada Kakabadse
  • Andrew Kakabadse

Abstract

Since the origins of humanity, the accident of the place and time of one’s birth has had a profound effect on the continued sustainability (or not) of one’s life with regard to adequate food, health care, education and general life opportunity (Shachar, 2003). Communities centered on an implicit (or explicit) contract with the state under the rubric of citizenship replaced early communities, organized by complex kinship systems and deep tribal loyalties. Strongly held norms or customs and common mores regulated the early ethnically homogeneous communities, or gemeinschaft. A ‘unity of will’ governed them (Tönnies, 2001: 22). In contrast, modern civil society embraces regulated association, or gesellschaft, whereby individuals act in their own self-interest and through so doing, minimize the importance of shared norms and customs.

Suggested Citation

  • Nada Kakabadse & Andrew Kakabadse, 2009. "The Citizen and the State: A Progressively Subversive, State-Determined, and ICT-Mediated Relationship," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Andrew Kakabadse & Nada Kakabadse & Kalu N. Kalu (ed.), Citizenship, chapter 7, pages 145-170, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24488-7_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230244887_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24488-7_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.