What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first
century, that citizenship is on the edge? The questions that
animate this volume focus attention on the relationships between
liberal conceptions of citizenship and democracy on one hand, and
sex, race, and gender on the other. Who "counts" as a citizen in
today's world, and what are the mechanisms through which the
rights, benefits, and protections of liberal citizenship are
differentially bestowed upon diverse groups? What are the
relationships between global economic processes and political and
legal empowerment? What forms of violence emerge in order to defend
and define these rights, benefits, and protections, and how do
these forms of violence reflect long histories? How might we
recognize and account for the various avenues through which people
attempt to make themselves as political subjects? Citizenship on
the Edge approaches these questions from multiple disciplines,
including Africana Studies, anthropology, disability studies, film
studies, gender studies, history, law, political science, and
sociology. Contributors explore the ways in which compounding
social inequalities redound to the conditions and expressions of
citizenship in the U.S. and throughout the world. They give a sense
of the breathtaking range of the ways that citizenship is
controlled, repressed, undercut, and denied at the same time as
they outline people's attempts to claim citizenship in ways that
are meaningful to them. From university speech policies, to labor
and immigration policies, to a rethinking of the security theatre,
to women's empowerment in the family and economy and a rethinking
of marriage and the family, we see slivers of possibility for a
more inclusive and less hostile world, in which citizenship is no
longer so in doubt, so on the edge, for so many. As a whole, the
volume argues that citizenship cannot be conceptualized as a
transcendent good but must instead always be contextualized within
specific places and times, and in relation to dynamic struggle.
Contributors: Erez Aloni, Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, Nancy J.
Hirschmann, Samantha Majic, Valentine M. Moghadam, Michael Rembis,
Tracy Robinson, Ellen Samuels, Kimberly Theidon, Deborah A. Thomas.
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