In person icon (Re)Thinking Citizenship

Abstract

Studies of citizenship face a dilemma. Border politics, state racism, the entrenchment of hierarchies of civilisation, all point to necessary questions regarding the failed project of modern/universalised citizenship. Whilst citizenship promises rights it has also become defined by projects of exclusion, nationalism and eurocentricism. It relies heavily on the dual myth of the modern subject and state. This raises questions of how to critically approach and conceptualise citizenship and the ‘citizen’. This panel explores ways of critically re-thinking citizenship; theories, practices and ‘acts’ of citizenship. This panel explores the following themes: The prevalence and failures of modern/ ‘universal’ citizenship Alternative ways of conceptualising citizenship (including alternative Western/non-Western genealogies) How day-to-day 'acts' of citizenship subvert and reconstitute political agency in imaginative ways Tracing the paradoxes and failures of the modern/ ‘universalised’ project of citizenship may urge us to be more creative about how we both think and practice citizenship.Ultimately this panel pushes the question: Does re-thinking and re-narrating citizenship offer a counter-point to those who would reject this model of being political altogether?

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