The idea of cultural citizenship has emerged through
three main phases of debate. Firstly there was
an attempt to extend the categories of citizenship
to include questions of culture. Here there was a
retracing of the debates on citizenship that was
largely concerned with questions of rights and duties
in the context of national societies to include issues
related to culture. This work owed a great deal to
attempts to link sociology and cultural studies found
in the work of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and
others.
During phase one of the cultural citizenship
debate issues related to the commodification of
culture, access to the relevant cultural capital and
the decline in cultural authority of the traditionalarts dominated.
