ROMA, Siglo I a.C, la República agoniza y solo unos pocos siguen fieles a lo que SPQR simboliza. Desde Hispania, el general Quinto Sertorio, apoyado por las tribus locales, se enfrenta al dictador Sila. Siempre invicto, solo podrá ser doblegado por la traición.
Su hijo adoptivo hispano, cegado por el deseo de trazarse un camino propio, participa en la conjura y el asesinato del general en Huesca. Arrepentido, narra la historia de QS para evitar que caiga en el olvido eterno de los derrotados, e intenta utilizar cartas y documentos que comprometen a muchos prohombres que apoyaron en secreto a su padre para intentar cambiar la Historia.
Mientras espera en Cástulo (Linares) la llegada ineludible de sus enemigos Craso y Pompeyo, reflexiona sobre las falsas virtudes, sobre las lealtades ciegas, sobre el valor de la muerte y la rebeldía de la vida. Eran tiempos en los que era más fácil ser un héroe que sobrevivir.
In search of European Citizenship
1. Introduction: Claiming Citizenship Rights in Europe [Ali Emre Benli and Daniele Archibugi]
2. European Citizenship in Times of Crisis: What is Left? [Teresa Pullano]
PART I. The Refugees Challenge to European Citizenship
3. Addressing the Refugee Crisis by European Citizenship [Marco Cellini]
4. Refugees Traversing Borders: Disobedience as an Act of European Citizenship [Ali Emre Benli]
5. European Asylum Policy and Sexual Orientation [Ilaria Ricci]
PART II. European Citizens at the Fringe
6. Prisoner Voting Rights on a European Perspective: The Cases of McHugh & Others v. The United Kingdom and Thierry Delvigne v. Commune de Lesparre Médoc [Viola Scordia]
7. Who Votes and Who Can be Voted in the European Parliament Elections? [Ilaria Ricci]
8. Estonia’s Non-Citizens, Citizens of the European Union? [Gigi Mihaita]
9.Sterilisation without Informed Consent: How to Improve European Citizens’ Medical Agency [Olga Lenczewska]
10. Parallel Claims for the Human Right to Water: The Case of Roma in Slovenia [Marek Szilvasi]
PART III. Emerging Issues and Political Subjects
11. The «Right to be Forgotten»: Asserting Control over our Digital Identity or Re-writing History? [Alice Pease]
12. A Right to Protection for Whistleblowers [Daniele Santoro and Manohar Kumar]
13. The Right to Become Visible: A Case for Aesthetic Activism on the EU Level [Daniel Tkatch]
Epilogue
14. Claiming Rights to Rejuvenate European Integration [Daniele Archibugi and Ali Emre Benli]
Daniele Archibugi is a Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRPPS), Italy, and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College, UK. In 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex, UK, and is an adviser to the European Union, the OECD, the Council of Europe, several UN agencies and various national governments.
Ali Emre Benli has been awarded research positions at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRPPS), Italy, Durham University, UK and the University of Graz, Austria, and is the Chair of Economic and Social Ethics at the UCLouvain, Belgium. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
