“Who Are You? Where Do You Come From? And What Do You Want From Your Life?”: Talking Citizenship, Community and Nation

Historically, questions of citizenship have been of central ideological importance to the left. The history of progressive politics' triumphs is in many ways the history of the broadening and deepening of citizenship ‐ extending the rights of citizenship to more people, and expanding the rights and responsibilities that citizenship implies. Today, however, the left struggles to offer a compelling account of what it means to belong to the nation, while the radical right is making the running with an exclusive and often overtly ethnic nationalism. Nick Garland talks to Jon Cruddas, Sarah Mulley and Jana Mills about how progressives might develop a new politics of citizenship and belonging, rooted in local communities and everyday life.