The story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and
nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination. The
glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a
civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood.
In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of
complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and
demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press
Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of
citizenship in the modern world. Kochenov offers a critical
introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically,
describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about,
and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four
key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the
status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who
is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in
a state; duties, and what it means to be a "good citizen"; and
politics, as enacted in the granting and enjoyment of citizenship.
Citizenship promises to apply the attractive ideas of dignity,
equality, and human worth-but to strictly separated groups of
individuals. Those outside the separation aren't citizens as
currently understood, and they do not belong. Citizenship, Kochenov
warns, is too often a legal tool that justifies violence,
humiliation, and exclusion.
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