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In this groundbreaking book, Nira Yuval-Davis provides a cutting-edge investigation of the challenging debates around belonging and the politics of belonging. Alongside the hegemonic forms of citizenship and nationalism which have tended to dominate our recent political and social history, the author examines alternative contemporary political projects of belonging constructed around the notions of religion, cosmopolitanism, and the feminist ‘ethics of care’. The book also explores the effects of globalization, mass migration, the rise of both fundamentalist and human rights movements on such politics of belonging, as well as some of its racialized and gendered dimensions. A special space is given to the various feminist political movements that have been engaged as part of or in resistance to the political projects of belonging.
The Citizenship Question: Of the State and beyond
The Citizenship Question: Of the State and beyond
The notion of citizenship can be seen as the participatory dimension of belonging to a political community. Not all citizenships involve the same kinds of participation and not all of them relate to citizenships in a state. Indeed, one of the interesting debates in relation to particular kinds of citizenships is to what extent they differ from the status of the subject, which, unlike the citizen, is ruled but has no part in the ruling (to use Aristotle's famous definition of citizenship (see Allen & Macey, 1990). Some – and probably Hannah Arendt (1986 [1951]) would be the most extreme among them – would argue that no political system which ...
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