{"title":"Towards scholar-activism: transversal relations, dissent, and creative acts","authors":"A. Stephens, J. Bagelman","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2171251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2171251","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What does it mean to be a scholar-activist or to pursue scholar-activism in the neoliberal university? Acknowledging how this concept of a ‘scholar-activist’ is often approached either cynically or idealistically, we ask how we might engage this figure otherwise: as one characterised by in-betweenness. We pursue the question of what it means to be a scholar-activist theoretically drawing on the work of Engin Isin, and empirically situated in the midst of our everyday teaching lives. In doing so, we develop ideas about how enacting our academic lives through a politics of in-between involves developing transversal relations, practising pedagogical dissent, and engaging in non-heroic, creative acts of citizenship. Overall, we argue for a form of scholar-activism that is ambivalent about its capacity to bring about change, and restless in practising how things could be different. Through a discussion of two examples of dissident teaching practices from our respective Geography departments, we ask: what might it mean to pursue change in the spaces of the university, using the tools we have to hand, as we consider the future possibilities for scholar-activism?","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"329 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45764897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not, not citizen: art and the making of fugitive sociality in the settler colony","authors":"Kiven Strohm","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2171252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2171252","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper takes up the entwinement of citizenship and the political in the writings of Engin Isin in the context of the Palestinians in Israel. It opens with an invitation to think with an artwork by the Palestinian artist Durar Bacri as a staging of fugitivity through a refusing of that which has been refused. Out of this I pose the question of whether such an act of refusal is political or not. I start by thinking with this artwork to unpack the settler colonial nature of Palestinian citizenship in Israel and how the figure at the centre of the painting is refusing the citizenship that is being refused him. From this I posit that not only is there a refusal of citizenship, but more there is an ‘end’ or limit to the political itself, and with it the political subject. I conclude with a discussion of a fugitive sociality and its implications for understanding the struggle of Palestinians in Israel.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"347 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46021412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A labour of love (the right to philosophy)","authors":"E. Isin","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2023.2171256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2023.2171256","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How can one respond except with gratitude to those who have laboured to think through Being Political published twenty years ago? I call this labour of love performing a/the right to philosophy (understood as a style of thought and a critical activity). Recognising the impossibility of discussing in detail the questions raised about Being Political by seven articles and nine authors, I discuss a few for further reflection. The questions raised are essential questions and concern not only Being Political but also the most urgent questions of being political in our times including domination, emancipation, resistance, acts, actions, subjectivity, objectivity, affect, polity, and power. Moreover, the authors urge us to think about ourselves, our standpoint, and our positions when we are thinking about and acting on these questions. That citizenship as a concept and an institution of domination and emancipation elicits and provokes these questions indicates that citizenship remains a central question of our times as it has been for at least three thousand years.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"422 - 426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44346443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citizenship denied, deferred and assumed: a legal history of racialized citizenship in Myanmar","authors":"Elizabeth L. Rhoads","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2137468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137468","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since the late colonial period, Myanmar has experienced heated debates over notions of belonging, including belonging as inscribed through citizenship status. At independence, Myanmar opted for a hybrid citizenship regime that allowed for paths to citizenship based on both jus sanguinis and jus soli principles, as well as a liberal naturalization policy. However, a new citizenship law passed in 1982 created a tiered system with differential eligibility, rights, and application procedures for jus sanguinis and jus soli pathways, highly restricting the jus soli path to citizenship while privileging state-recognized ethnic groups by strengthening jus sanguinis pathways. The article traces the historical evolution of Myanmar’s postcolonial citizenship regime and how notions of belonging, foreignness, and nativity engendered one of the world’s most racialized citizenship regimes. A close examination of the citizenship regime highlights how citizenship and belonging for Myanmar’s ‘unofficial minorities’ are both contingent and ‘in process’, often a status left pending rather than denied or secured. This creates a ‘deferred citizenship’ which impacts not only individual applicants and their descendants but perpetuates Myanmar’s exclusionary and tiered citizenship system, ensuring that the ‘citizenship question’ is passed to the next generation.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"38 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42809988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I take care and the state sabotages from the beginning to the end!’: tracing ‘volunteering’ in European provision arrangements for refugees and asylum seekers","authors":"Katrin Kremmel","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2151570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2151570","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the spring of 2015, the citizens’ initiative ‘We Welcome’ in a small municipality in Western Austria published a manifesto to announce that it had invented and granted ‘municipal asylum’ to two asylum seekers, to protect them from deportation by national authorities. In this article, I follow the logics of the extended case method as I discuss the initiative We Welcome as an extraordinary example of volunteering in the asylum regime. Recent literature on the role of volunteers in refugee reception fails to historically situate volunteering as part and parcel of provision arrangements for asylum seekers and refugees. I address this gap by looking into the emergence of ‘volunteering’ as an object of knowledge production and policy-making since the 1980s. I further show that the experiences of the initiative’s participants run counter to hegemonic discourses, which picture ‘volunteering’ as a means to produce trust and social cohesion. Instead of eliciting their trust, their experiences as volunteers deeply alienated them from the nation-state, and their citizenship was unsettled.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"465 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42617219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Filippo Bignami, Igor Calzada, Naomi Hanakata, Federico Tomasello
{"title":"Data-Driven Citizenship Regimes in Contemporary Urban Scenarios: An Introduction","authors":"Filippo Bignami, Igor Calzada, Naomi Hanakata, Federico Tomasello","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2147262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2147262","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This Special Issue presents new perspectives on the idea of digital citizenship by delving into the nexus between its emerging concepts, the consequences of the global pandemic crisis, and the urban environment. It does so by addressing a wide range of case studies from three continents and developing two main hypotheses. First, the COVID-19 outbreak has expanded the impact of digital technologies on citizens’ everyday life. Second, the urban realm is the environment where new citizenship regimes are emerging through platformization, datafication, and the rescaling of the state. To introduce the Special Issue, this article: (i) examines recent scholarship about the effects of the pandemic on digital citizenship; (ii) discusses and expands concepts of digital citizenship through case studies; and (iii) assesses how emerging forms of digital citizenship are fostered by uneven ‘pandemic citizenship’ regimes worldwide.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"145 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47346970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Passports and Belongings: Armenian citizenship acquisition among Armenians of Turkey","authors":"Hrag Papazian, Salim Aykut Öztürk","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2151571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2151571","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Armenians of Turkey have recently been applying for citizenship in Armenia in growing numbers. Based on research in Istanbul and Yerevan, we examine the contextual developments in both countries that contributed to the emergence of this practice, the motivations that Armenian citizenship applicants are guided by, and the implications of the process on their feelings and expressions of belonging. This move of many Armenians of Turkey appears to be mostly a strategic choice motivated by recent developments in the two countries (2015-2020). The Armenian passport is seen as a tool that could enable mobility from increasingly precarious Turkey. However, our analysis also reveals dimensions and implications of this praxis that transcend mere instrumentalism and relate to affective realms of belonging. To some of its holders, the newly acquired Armenian citizenship represents an opportunity or hope for a fully recognised belonging, in contrast to their traditional step-citizenship in Turkey.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"481 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48484554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insurgent citizens in the U.S. detention regime: a case study of mobilization and rights claims from within an Ohio immigration prison","authors":"M. Hallett, Yulianna Otero-Asmar","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2131074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2131074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Foundational literature on ‘insurgent citizenship’ highlights how spaces of both exclusion and encounter among marginalized groups lead them to reimagine traditional practices of citizenship through mobilization, occupation, and claims related to place and legal rights. Recent scholarship, especially work written by undocumented activists themselves, illustrates the power of this approach in contemporary movements for justice in North America, especially in the construction of spaces of abolitionist sanctuary, and the valuable role of critical participatory methods in illuminating such forms of social action. Building on this praxis-based body of scholarship, our case study centers on a mobilization by detained activists against abuses and violations of rights during the Covid-19 pandemic at Butler County Jail in Hamilton, Ohio, and the role of strategic alliances between external allies and people within the jail. Through a mixed-methods approach (interviews, discourse analysis, and participant observation) and drawing on critical methodologies of accompaniment and witnessing, we examine how this mobilization constituted a form of ‘insurgent citizenship’.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"1117 - 1134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48997432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Further to the bottom of the hierarchy: the stratification of forced migrants’ welfare rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy","authors":"Raffaele Bazurli, Francesca Campomori","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2131073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2131073","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes how forced migrants have been pushed further down in the hierarchy of social citizenship amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from research in six cities of north-eastern Italy, we show that their welfare rights have stratified due to national immigration policies that imply unequal access to social protection. Local-level forces – including regional welfare institutions, municipal governments, and civil society organizations – have either magnified or mitigated such state-driven stratification. This process resulted in uneven landscapes of social citizenship, with a minority of migrants relatively well-protected and the others entangled into downward, pandemic-induced spirals of marginalization. In this way various forms of exclusion were activated, and accumulated on, one another – what we define as COVID-19’s ‘ripple effect’. These findings travel beyond Italy as an exemplary case of rampant nativism and urge post-pandemic host societies to emancipate welfare rights from the immigration policies to which they are so often subordinated.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"18 6","pages":"1091 - 1116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41288320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling like a citizen: hope amid social exclusion in São Paulo during the Covid-19 pandemics","authors":"I. Roy, V. Coelho, Felipe Szabzon","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2131075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2131075","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper harnesses the strengths of the recent affective turn in citizenship studies. It makes three contributions to the literature. First, against proponents and critics of neoliberalism who neglect the reinventions of citizenship under ‘neoliberalism’, it emphasises the politics of hope advanced by socially excluded people. Second, while sympathetic to the affective turn in citizenship it addresses what it believes to be its key limitations: a neglect of the care people expect from the state and the feelings of solidarity that remain central to citizenship. Third, by reflecting on the experience of neighbourhood in Sao Paulo, the paper challenges the overwhelming focus of the affective citizenship literature on the Global North by drawing on perspectives from a key city in the Global South.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"1135 - 1155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44635038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}