{"title":"Constitutional moments and resurgent citizenship","authors":"Anupama Roy","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091246","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Citizenship can be seen as successive moments of heightened consciousness about belonging. Contests over citizenship in the contemporary world may be construed in terms of a constitutional moment which has transformed the Constitution into an ‘insurgent’ text – recasting the constitutional order from a fetter on democracy to one of re-iteration of the principles that were adopted by ‘We, the people’. The resurgent ‘people’ have claimed the power to ‘launch something unprecedented’ by recalling the constitutional moment. A range of innovative protests in India have inserted new idioms of constitutional citizenship through rallies and sit-ins, street art, and theatre, asking for a democratic conversation on the constitution and law. These iterations have led to a resurgence of citizenship by making the Constitution popular.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"615 - 624"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47005781","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":"Remember to die: recovering belonging in diasporic end of life art","authors":"Y. Gunaratnam","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091229","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Anticolonial and Black feminist scholars and artists have made a convincing case that political and social legibility for racially marked peoples requires active and multi-sensory reiteration. To presence what has been effaced or distorted, images, numbers, and texts must be redacted, annotated, rescaled, reframed, relocated, and repurposed. In dialogue with this work, this piece discusses the vernacular of the diasporic art made in English hospices with Black and Brown migrants at the end of their lives. I suggest that such outsider art makes and rehearses migrant belonging in two interrelated ways: by creating temporary niches for rest, recovery, and pleasure; and by bringing into appearance the quotidian, heterogenous times of Black and Brown diasporic belonging that are out of sync with the rights and timelines of formal citizenship. The critical possibilities that attunement to rest and pleasure can precipitate in citizenship studies is an underlying theme.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"471 - 479"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48910645","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":"Reconstructing citizenship (again)","authors":"J. Clarke","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091221","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In a collaborative project, we argued that citizenship was always both ‘unfinished’ (imparfaite) and ‘under construction’ (en travaux). This contribution examines some of the ways in which citizenship continues to be unfinished and is in the process of being reconstructed. It highlights three particular tendencies that have dominated the processes – and the politics – of citizenship’s reconstruction: a deepening nationalisation of citizenship; an ensuing intensification of practices of ‘bordering’, even as borders become more mobile; and the subcontracting of the management of citizenship to agents and agencies ‘beyond’ the state.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"411 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43191218","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":"The rise of reparative citizenship","authors":"A. Frost","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091227","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the past twenty-five years, a growing number of European countries have enacted laws granting citizenship to individuals and their descendants unjustly excluded in the past. These ‘reparative citizenship’ initiatives employ citizenship as a remedy and apology for historical exclusion. This essay argues that such initiatives have the potential to shift conceptions of citizenship. Instead of a privilege to be conferred at the sole discretion of the sovereign state, citizenship may become a status owed for reasons of corrective and distributive justice. Yet it is telling that reparative citizenship has thus far been granted sparingly, acknowledging the wrongful exclusions only of some groups and not others. Also significant is the near total absence of reparative citizenship initiatives in the United States. These limits suggest that despite its transformative potential, thus far reparative citizenship remains the exception that proves the rule.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"454 - 459"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43233890","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":"Towards de-Westernism in citizenship studies: implications from China","authors":"Zhonghua Guo","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091230","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Modern citizenship is Western-centric, featuring Weberianism and Marshallianism as core paradigms. That orthodox view obscures the diversity of citizenship. Over the past three decades, three trends in citizenship studies have challenged this ‘orthodox consensus’: the diversification of the subjects and contents of citizenship rights; ‘citizenship after Orientalism’, which advocates bringing oriental societies into citizenship studies; and ‘acts of citizenship’, which shifts the core of citizenship from rights to acts. Sharing ‘de-Westernism’ as a goal, these approaches promote the study of citizenship from a wider range of perspectives. The Chinese experience of citizenship shows that de-Westernism needs to be taken further. We need to adopt even more diverse perspectives to further de-Westernise and enrich our understanding of citizenship. In this paper, ‘contextualism’ and the ‘tree of citizenship’ are advocated as more strongly de-Westernised perspectives.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"480 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41905629","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":"Act up against citizenship: a plea to citizenship studies","authors":"Amy L. Brandzel","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091219","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this short essay, Brandzel cautions scholars as to how their scholarship might inadvertently reproduce the violent operations of citizenship. Focusing on over thirty articles from this journal that deploy Engin Isin’s framework of ‘acts of citizenship’ as an example, Brandzel points towards a troubling trend of calling practices, identities, or behaviors as an ‘act of citizenship’ without qualifying why citizenship is the appropriate framework. In the end, Brandzel appeals to citizenship studies scholars to be more selective of their uses of citizenship, and to consider focusing their work on ways to disrupt or ‘act against citizenship’.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"393 - 400"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41994101","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":"Precarious legal status trajectories as method, and the work of legal status","authors":"L. Goldring","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091228","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Critiques of ‘fantasy citizenship’ include calls to migrantize the citizen and denationalize citizenship and migration studies. In response, this essay proposes ‘precarious legal status trajectories (PLSTs) as method’, with a focus on the work of legal status. This approach captures changes in sociolegal status trajectories, including illegalization, and builds a ‘thicker’ approach to trajectories. The work of status refers to effort, time, money, and other resources devoted to being present in a jurisdiction, and/or gain access to services and protections. The approach also considers work that does not produce changes and is not counted, and interactions with other actors. This contributes to understanding how precarious legal status trajectories are assembled and contribute to inequalities in citizenship and dynamics of differential inclusion. It migrantizes the citizen in a context where the share of citizens who were precarious noncitizens continues to rise, and when methodological nationalism occludes PLSTs.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"460 - 470"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47840422","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":"The speaking citizen: language requirements and linguistic neoliberal colonialisms","authors":"A. Fortier","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091226","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article concerns contemporary common-sense politics around language, integration, and citizenship that pervade Western European countries, where language is at the basis of a new model of citizenship – jus linguarum. I situate jus linguarum as the product of two seemingly different logics: the logics of neoliberalism and the logics (and legacies) of colonialism. I argue that jus linguarum obscures the fact that ‘national language’ is a historically constructed category with roots in imperialism, and allows for the disappearance of other categories, such as whiteness and middle-classness. The chapter shows how a form of ‘provincialised national languages’ arise from the tensions between the inevitability of multilingualism in today’s global world, on the one hand, and the insistence of one-nation-one-language, on the other. The analysis of jus linguarum developed in this paper forces a new understanding of citizenship where regimes of seeing and regimes of hearing combine in definitions of citizenship and citizens, through intersecting inequalities of language, race, and class.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"447 - 453"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48481148","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":"Organic vs. inorganic citizenship","authors":"B. Arneil","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091215","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social contract theories from John Locke to John Rawls are rooted in a flawed ontological foundation as autonomous, self-interested individuals with interests/rights abstracted from any relationship to each other, land/animals they live on/amongst or even time/history live within a state of nature or original position. Political authority and/or fundamental principles of justice are produced as inorganic artifices, constituted via the aggregate consent of natural/pre-political beings. While citizenship may appear universal, in reality, ‘freemen’ were defined along gendered, racialized, class-based, and/or ableist lines. Thus, a hierarchically defined subset of people consents to authority or the principles of justice. In contrast, an organic theory of citizenship is rooted in the opposite ontological premise with human beings understood to be living, growing interdependent beings born into relationships and ecosystems that pre-exist and upon which they depend to live at all, are explicitly anti-hierarchical. Relations between people, society, and the ecosystem must be theorized as a priority rather than bracketed outside of consideration and/or constituted as the byproduct of consent. The central question for an organic theory of citizenship is thus: how to create a healthy ecosystem and non-hierarchical set of relations so humans from birth to old age, creatures, and the earth itself are all able to flourish interdependently?","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"365 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45357942","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":"Dis/abled decolonial human and citizen futures","authors":"Dina Kiwan","doi":"10.1080/13621025.2022.2091236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091236","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article utilises the dual methodological lens of disability and decolonisation in order to critically examine, in interdisicplinary and global perspective, what it will mean to be both a ‘human’ and a ‘citizen’ in the 21st century. I propose the development of an epistemological framework and methodology of the dis/abling and decolonising of knowledge on humanness and citizenship in order to anticipate demographic, environmental, and technological futures. Firstly, I critically examine how critical disability approaches challenge the able-ist premises of liberal political theory. Secondly, by critically analysing US immigration and US/UK eugenics movements, I illustrate the able-ist, raced, and colonial constructs of human-ness and citizenship using a dual decolonial and disability methodological lens. Finally, I look towards anticipating human and citizen futures through the case of artificial intelligence, where I illustrate both its reification of a raced and able-ist status quo on the one hand, and the potential for changing terrains of the bounds of human-ness and citizenship.","PeriodicalId":47860,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"530 - 538"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48336952","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}