Acts of citizenship
By: edited by Engin F. Isin and Greg M. Nielsen.
Contributors: Isin, Engin F. 1959-; Nielsen, Greg Marc, 1953-
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd; Zed Books Ltd.; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781842779521; 9781842779514
Subjects: Citizenship; Citizenship -- Philosophy
Description: This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. This study of citizenship is truly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on new developments in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology, but also on psychoanalysis, philosophy and history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acts of citizenship / Engin F. Isin & Greg M. Nielsen; title: Politics, ethics, aesthetics; title: Theorizing acts of citizenship / Engin F. Isin; title: Can an act of citizenship be creative? / Melanie White; title: What levinas can and cannot teach us about mediating acts of citizenship / Bettina Bergo; title: Acts I: Heroic intrusions and the body of law; title: Act 1: Abraham's sacrifice / Charles Wells; title: Act 2: Antigone's offering / Charles Wells; title: Act 3: Socrates's death / Bora Ali Isyar; title: Act 4: Euthanasia / Bora Ali Isyar; title: Act 5: Pat Tillman: soldier-citizen-hero? / Darryl Burgwin; title: Citizens, strangers, aliens, outcasts; title: Citizenship without acts? With Tocqueville in America / Brian C.J. Singer; title: Acts of piety: the political and the religious or a tale of two cities / Bryan S. Turner; title: Arendt's citizenship and citizen participation in disappearing Dublin / Kieran Bonner; title: No one is illegal between city and nation / Peter Nyers; title: Acts of demonstration: mapping the territory of (non-) citizenship / William Walters; title: Acts II: Exclusions without names; title: Act 6: Promising to become European / Erkan Ercel; title: Act 7: Checkpoint gazes / Irus Braverman; title: Act 8: The Romani / Ebru Ustundag; title: Act 9: Return to Guatemala / Karine Cote-Boucher; title: Act 10: Unintentional acts of citizenship (the joke) / Ian Morrison; title: Sites and scales of answerability; title: Citizenship, art and the voices of the city: Wodiczko's the homeless; title: Projection / Fred Evans; title: Acts of Chinese citizenship: the tank man and democracy-to-come / Yon Hsu; title: Answerability with cosmopolitan intent: an ethics based politics for acts of urban citizenship / Greg M. Nielsen; title: Acts III: Rituals and performance; title: Act 11: Acts of commemoration / Ian Morrison; title: Act 12: Non-citizens' politics / John Saunders; title: Act 13: flash mobs / John Saunders; title: Act 14: Spike Lee's 25th hour.