‘Otherness as a condition of citizenship’: alterity, extimacy and citizenship after orientalism

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Citizenship Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI:10.1080/13621025.2023.2171255

Ian A. Morrison

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ABSTRACT From the genealogies of citizenship in Being Political to his more recent explorations of performance and performativity, Engin Isin’s attempts to think citizenship after orientalism have been explicitly guided by a ‘focus on otherness as a condition of citizenship’ (2002, 3). Both within and beyond the field of citizenship studies, Isin’s call to investigate citizenship as alterity has contributed to a radical rethinking of the nature of citizenship, political subjectivity, collective identity, and the relation of self to other. It is the meaning of a ‘focus on otherness as a condition of citizenship’ that is addressed in this article. This is undertaken, first, by examining the place of otherness within Isin’s investigations of citizenship. Second, it is argued that addressing otherness in terms of extimacy, a term which designates both the presence of exteriority in the deepest interiority (intimacy) of the subject, and the ‘resultant nondistinction and identity of the exterior and the intimate or most interior’ (Pavón-Cuéllar 2014, 661), allows us to recognize additional ways in which otherness serves as a condition of citizenship, and, thereby, to further pursue Isin’s aim of understanding the relation of citizenship and otherness beyond logics of exclusion and enclosure. Approaching otherness as a condition of citizenship in terms of extimacy reveals the very scenes in which the categories of citizenship and its others are asserted, reproduced and/or overturned as implicated in and structured by structures of fantasy and desire.

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“作为公民身份条件的他者”:东方主义之后的另类性、极端化与公民身份

摘要：从《政治存在》中的公民身份谱系，到他最近对表现和表演性的探索，伊辛在东方主义之后对公民身份的思考都受到了“关注作为公民身份条件的他者”的明确指导（2002，3）。在公民身份研究领域内外，伊辛呼吁将公民身份视为交替，这有助于对公民身份的性质、政治主体性、集体身份以及自我与他人的关系进行彻底的反思。这就是“关注他人作为公民身份的一个条件”的含义。这首先是通过考察另类在伊辛对公民身份的调查中的地位来实现的。其次，有人认为，从外在性的角度来处理另类性，这个术语既指外在在主体最深层的内在（亲密）中的存在，也指“由此产生的外部和亲密或最内部的不连续性和同一性”（Pavón-Cuéllar 2014661），允许我们认识到另类作为公民身份条件的其他方式，从而进一步追求伊辛的目标，即超越排斥和封闭的逻辑来理解公民身份和另类的关系。从灭绝的角度来看，将他者作为公民身份的一个条件，揭示了公民身份及其其他类别被断言、复制和/或推翻的场景，因为它们涉及幻想和欲望的结构。

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Citizenship Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： Citizenship Studies publishes internationally recognised scholarly work on contemporary issues in citizenship, human rights and democratic processes from an interdisciplinary perspective covering the fields of politics, sociology, history and cultural studies. It seeks to lead an international debate on the academic analysis of citizenship, and also aims to cross the division between internal and academic and external public debate. The journal focuses on debates that move beyond conventional notions of citizenship, and treats citizenship as a strategic concept that is central in the analysis of identity, participation, empowerment, human rights and the public interest.