WG 3 Aims & Task

COST Action CA 16211 RECAST

Reappraising Intellectual Debates on Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe

Working Group 3: Concepts

Objectives

Researching

➢ The semantic changes of civic concepts, outlining their comparative, transnational study.

➢ Their critical uses in arguments on rights and democracy from historical, moral, political, legal, and public non-scholarly perspectives.

Task

Dissecting the conceptual clusters social and political agents, and scholars, use in their arguments.