Solidarities of citizenship

Frontiers in Political Science

Political Science

Jacqueline Stevens¹ 

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关键词: citizenship;    nationality;    Engin Isin;    settler colonialism and native dispossession;    identity politics;    Jodi Dean;    solidarity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpos.2023.1141774

 received in 2023-01-10, accepted in 2023-04-10,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This essay contrasts the trajectory of Engin Isin's work since Being Political (2002) with a very different intellectual path pursued among scholars of a younger generation. Isin moves away from his initial critiques of citizenship and 10 years later proposes “citizenship without frontiers,” a way of understanding emancipatory interventions of active citizens in opposition to state violence. During this same time frame, other political theorists began to reject “citizenship” entirely. Whereas, Isin's oeuvre since Being Political incorporates the principles of creativity and resistance of “being political” into a more expansive concept of “citizenship,” other theorists began denouncing citizenship as of a piece with colonialism, capitalism, and neoliberalism. Such reactions expressly rejected efforts to recuperate citizenship for causes that oppose domination and oppression. This essay analyzes arguments antagonistic to citizenship claims through the lens of Isin's work, focusing in particular on competing views on nativism, Indigeneity, and nationality. The Conclusion considers recent examples of activist citizens and citizens without frontiers pursuing political solidarities along the lines Isin proposes.1

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