Edited Collections

COST Action CA 16211 RECAST

Reappraising Intellectual Debates on Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe

As part of RECAST’s deliverables, a number of edited collections are under way drawn on the WG workshops. Since April 2020 the leaders and vice-leaders of the working groups and the chair have held periodic preparatory meetings:

WG 1 Practices
Meike Schmidt-Gleim, Ruzha Smilova, and Claudia Wiesner, eds., Democratic Crisis Revisited: Dialectics of Politicisation and Depoliticisation. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2022.

WG 2 Languages and Ideologies
Rosario López, Lenka Stranadová, Martin Beckstein and Eno Trimçev, eds., Liberalism and Conservatism: Reconsidering the Ideological Divide. It began as a special issue proposal to the journal Comparative Political Theory. Some papers have been published in that journal, while others have been published elsewhere.

WG 3 Concepts
Hanna-Mari Kivistö, Gonçalo Marcelo and José María Rosales, guest editors, Reconceptualizing State of Exception: European Lessons from the Pandemic, volume 90 (2024) of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Leeds: Emerald.

WG 4 Debates
Maria Brown, Taru Haapala and Lilia Raycheva, eds., Citizenship Education for Political Agency in European Democracies: Transnational Appraisals and Debates’, special issue of the journal Postcolonial Directions in Education, 11:1 (2022), 1-177.