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This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism,
decolonisation, migration and living international relations that
were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and
from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the
present. It takes up the story of Nicholaos Charalambou Kanaris, a
colonial migrant to the UK from Cyprus, as a reflection on how the
everyday lives of minor figures offer an unexplored window into
international relations. The research uncovers and offers insight
into the complexities and messiness of everyday life and of
(trans)national identities as they are lived and have been lived at
the heart of imperial, colonial and postcolonial systems and
processes. The innovative methodological approach adopts memoirs
gathered through a series of life-narrative interviews and is
guided by theories of minor transnationalism that look to
foreground horizontal relations between minor figures. Various
themes of international relations are examined through the lens of
Nicholaos' story and his family life, including colonialism,
geopolitics, citizenship, security, migration and transnationalism.
Examining how these themes play out in everyday life permits his
practice and lived experience to theorise the international
politics of colonialism, migration and citizenship. This book
argues that Politics and International Relations can benefit from a
transnational approach and offers a method of theory-in-practice
for exploring the everyday experience of transnationalism, through
the methodology of life-narrative and memoir.
This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism,
decolonisation, migration and living international relations that
were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and
from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the
present. It takes up the story of Nicholaos Charalambou Kanaris, a
colonial migrant to the UK from Cyprus, as a reflection on how the
everyday lives of minor figures offer an unexplored window into
international relations. The research uncovers and offers insight
into the complexities and messiness of everyday life and of
(trans)national identities as they are lived and have been lived at
the heart of imperial, colonial and postcolonial systems and
processes. The innovative methodological approach adopts memoirs
gathered through a series of life-narrative interviews and is
guided by theories of minor transnationalism that look to
foreground horizontal relations between minor figures. Various
themes of international relations are examined through the lens of
Nicholaos' story and his family life, including colonialism,
geopolitics, citizenship, security, migration and transnationalism.
Examining how these themes play out in everyday life permits his
practice and lived experience to theorise the international
politics of colonialism, migration and citizenship. This book
argues that Politics and International Relations can benefit from a
transnational approach and offers a method of theory-in-practice
for exploring the everyday experience of transnationalism, through
the methodology of life-narrative and memoir.
The success of individual nation states today is often measured in
terms of their ability to benefit from and contribute to a host of
global economic, political, socio-cultural, technological, and
educational networks. This increased multifaceted international
inter-dependence represents an intuitively contradictory and an
immensely complex situation. This scenario requires that national
governments, whose primary responsibility is towards their
citizenry, must relinquish a degree of control over state borders
to constantly developing trans and multinational regimes and
institutions. Once state borders become permeable all sorts of
issues related to rights earned or accrued due to membership of a
national community come into question. Given that neither
individuals nor states can eschew the influence of the growing
interdependence, this new milieu is often described in terms of
shrinking of the world into a global village. This reshaping of the
world requires us to broaden our horizons and re-evaluate the
manner in which we theorize human personhood within communal
boundaries. It also demands us to acknowledge that the relative
decline of Euro-American economic and political influence and the
rise of Asian and Latin American states at the global level have
created spaces in which a de-territorialized and a de-historicized
notion of citizenship and state can now be explored. The essays in
this volume represent diverse disciplinary, analytical, and
methodological approaches to understand what the implications are
of being a citizen of both a nation state and the world
simultaneously. In sum, Deconstructing Global Citizenship explores
the question of whether a synthesis of contradictory national and
global tendencies in the term "global citizenship" is even
possible, or if we are better served by fundamentally reconsidering
our ideas of "citizenship," "community," and "politics."
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