Brave New Neighbourhood: Affective citizenship in Dutch territorial governance

This dissertation deals with the prominence and promise of the communitarian citizen in current neighbourhood governance in the Netherlands in general, and Slotermeer in particular. I start from the proposition that communitarian citizens matter a great deal in Dutch national and local neighbourhood policies aimed at neighbourhood regeneration. The communitarian citizenship ideal implies a transformation in the way citizens are perceived by governments: no longer as rational, individual and calculative subjects but more prominently as affective subjects in search of attachments to something co... Mehr ...