This edited volume presents a critique of citizenship as exclusively and even originally a European or 'Western' institution. It explores the ways in which we may begin to think differently about citizenship as political subjectivity.

Autorentext
Tara Atluri, Independent Researcher, Canada Iker Barbero, University of the Basque Country, Spain Deena Dajani, Education Consultant, UK Jack Harrington, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Aya Ikegame, University of Tokyo, Japan Alessandra Marino, The Open University, UK Andrea Mura, The Open University, UK Zaki Nahaboo, INTO City University, UK Lisa Pilgram, The Open University, UK Dana Rubin, The Open University, UK Leticia Sabsay, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Inhalt

1. Transforming Political Theory; Engin Isin

PART I: UNDOING CITIZENSHIP
2. Abject Choices? Orientalism, Citizenship and Autonomy; Leticia Sabsay
3. Disorienting Austerity: The Indebted Citizen as the New Soul of Europe; Andrea Mura
4. The Imperial Citizen: British India and French Algeria; Jack Harrington
5. Haredi Settlers: the Non-Zionist Jewish Settlers of the West Bank; Dana Rubin

PART II: UNCOVERING CITIZENSHIP
6. Overlapping Sovereignties: Gurus and Citizenship; Aya Ikegame
7. Contesting neo-orientalism: Terrorism Detentions, Migrant Activism, and the Claim for Justice; Iker Barbero
8. Multicultural Society Must Be Defended?; Zaki Nahaboo
9. Law, Orientalism and Citizenship: British-Muslim Family Law; Lisa Pilgram

PART III: REFIGURING CITIZENSHIP
10. Performing Citizenship: Acts of Writing; Alessandra Marino
11. Haunted Citizens: Of Ghosts, Gang Rapes, and ?z?d?; Tara Atluri
12. Foolish Citizens; Deena Dajani
13. Citizenship ' 's Empire; Engin Isin