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Acts of Citizenship.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781848132634
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 327.5
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Acts of Citizenship -- Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics -- Citizens, Strangers, Aliens, Outcasts -- Sites and Scales of Answerability -- Conclusion -- Part I: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics -- Chapter 1 Theorizing Acts of Citizenship -- Citizenship in Flux: Subjects, Sites, Scales -- Theorizing Citizenship: Status, Habitus, Acts -- Orders, Practices, Acts -- Theorizing Ethical Acts: Responsibility and Answerability -- Theorizing Political Acts: Law and Justice -- Investigating Acts of Citizenship: Becoming Activist Citizens -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2 Can an Act of Citizenship Be Creative? -- Bergson's Method of Intuition -- The Habits of Citizenship -- Creativity and the Act of Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments and References -- Chapter 3 What Levinas Can and Cannot Teach Us About Mediating Acts of Citizenship -- Thesis 1: The Impossible Passage from the Face-to-Face to the Third Party -- Thesis 2: Whose Metaphysics, Whose Hospitality? -- Notes and References -- Acts I: Heroic Intrusions and the Body of Law -- Act 1 Abraham's Sacrifice -- Act 2 Antigone's Offering -- Act 3 The Death of Socrates -- Act 4 Euthanasia -- Act 5 Pat Tillman: Soldier-Citizen-Hero? -- Part II: Citizens, Strangers, Aliens, Outcasts -- Chapter 4 Citizenship Without Acts? With Tocqueville in America -- The Political and the Social -- Equality, Association and Dissociation -- Self and Other -- Similarity and Difference -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Acts of Piety:The Political and the Religious, or a Tale of Two Cities -- The Body and Religion -- Justification and the City -- Rituals of Intimacy in South-east Asia -- Conclusion: the Global Umma and the Crisis of Secularism -- References.
Chapter 6 Arendt's Citizenship and Citizen Participation in Disappearing Dublin -- Citizen Participation and Dublin -- Hannah Arendt, Democracy and Citizen Participation -- Action and the Human Condition -- Citizenship, Freedom and the Public World -- Labouring, Work and Citizenship Acts -- A Reflexive Analysis of the Tension between the Planning Discourse and the Culture of Dublin -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 No One Is Illegal Between City and Nation -- Acts of Non-Citizenship -- Vocalizing Acts of Citizenship -- Border Lives -- Autonomous Acts of Self-Representation -- Acts of Regularization: Between City and Nation -- Mediating Acts of Citizenship -- Conclusions -- Notes and References -- Chapter 8 Acts of Demonstration: Mapping the Territory of (Non-)Citizenship -- Sangatte, 1999-2002 -- Unauthorized Migration and Homo Sacer -- The Autonomy of Migration -- Mapping the Territory of (Non-)Citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Acts II: Exclusions Without Names -- Act 6 Promising to Become European -- Act 7 Checkpoint Gazes -- Act 8 The Romani -- Act 9 Return to Guatemala -- Act 10 Unintentional Acts of Citizenship (The Joke) -- Part III: Sites and Scales of Answerability -- Chapter 9 Citizenship, Art and the Voices of the City: Wodiczko's The Homeless Projection -- 'The Voice of the City' -- Plato and Jacobs on the City -- A City of Voices -- Voices and Dialogic Hybridity -- Citizenship and Art in the Multi-voiced City -- Beyond Communitarianism and Political Liberalism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Acts of Chinese Citizenship: The Tank Man and Democracy-to-Come -- The Tiananmen Protest -- Moments of Political Rupture for Justice and Democracy-to-Come -- (Un)Making Political Identity -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement, Notes and References.
Chapter 11 Answerability with Cosmopolitan Intent: An Ethics-Based Politics for Acts of Urban Citizenship -- Similarities and Differences -- Defining Acts of Citizenship -- Necessary Indifference and Answerability with Cosmopolitan Intent -- Bakhtin: The Bus Uncle and the Limits of Dialogic Pluralism -- Simmel: Cosmopolitan States of Co-being? -- Derrida: Citizen Politics and the Political after 9/11 -- Derrida and Simmel: Catching Acts between Law and Justice -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements, Note and References -- Acts III: Rituals and Performance -- Act 11 Acts of Commemoration -- Act 12 Non-Citizens' Politics -- Act 13 Flash Mobs -- Act 14 Spike Lee's 25th Hour -- Index.
Summary: Examines theories of how citizenship is mediated between lived experiences and formal entitlements in order to map out, confine, extend, name, and enact the boundaries of belonging to a polity. This book assembles deep traditions in social and political thought to provide a examination of acts of citizenship in this useful way.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Acts of Citizenship -- Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics -- Citizens, Strangers, Aliens, Outcasts -- Sites and Scales of Answerability -- Conclusion -- Part I: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics -- Chapter 1 Theorizing Acts of Citizenship -- Citizenship in Flux: Subjects, Sites, Scales -- Theorizing Citizenship: Status, Habitus, Acts -- Orders, Practices, Acts -- Theorizing Ethical Acts: Responsibility and Answerability -- Theorizing Political Acts: Law and Justice -- Investigating Acts of Citizenship: Becoming Activist Citizens -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2 Can an Act of Citizenship Be Creative? -- Bergson's Method of Intuition -- The Habits of Citizenship -- Creativity and the Act of Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments and References -- Chapter 3 What Levinas Can and Cannot Teach Us About Mediating Acts of Citizenship -- Thesis 1: The Impossible Passage from the Face-to-Face to the Third Party -- Thesis 2: Whose Metaphysics, Whose Hospitality? -- Notes and References -- Acts I: Heroic Intrusions and the Body of Law -- Act 1 Abraham's Sacrifice -- Act 2 Antigone's Offering -- Act 3 The Death of Socrates -- Act 4 Euthanasia -- Act 5 Pat Tillman: Soldier-Citizen-Hero? -- Part II: Citizens, Strangers, Aliens, Outcasts -- Chapter 4 Citizenship Without Acts? With Tocqueville in America -- The Political and the Social -- Equality, Association and Dissociation -- Self and Other -- Similarity and Difference -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Acts of Piety:The Political and the Religious, or a Tale of Two Cities -- The Body and Religion -- Justification and the City -- Rituals of Intimacy in South-east Asia -- Conclusion: the Global Umma and the Crisis of Secularism -- References.

Chapter 6 Arendt's Citizenship and Citizen Participation in Disappearing Dublin -- Citizen Participation and Dublin -- Hannah Arendt, Democracy and Citizen Participation -- Action and the Human Condition -- Citizenship, Freedom and the Public World -- Labouring, Work and Citizenship Acts -- A Reflexive Analysis of the Tension between the Planning Discourse and the Culture of Dublin -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 No One Is Illegal Between City and Nation -- Acts of Non-Citizenship -- Vocalizing Acts of Citizenship -- Border Lives -- Autonomous Acts of Self-Representation -- Acts of Regularization: Between City and Nation -- Mediating Acts of Citizenship -- Conclusions -- Notes and References -- Chapter 8 Acts of Demonstration: Mapping the Territory of (Non-)Citizenship -- Sangatte, 1999-2002 -- Unauthorized Migration and Homo Sacer -- The Autonomy of Migration -- Mapping the Territory of (Non-)Citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Acts II: Exclusions Without Names -- Act 6 Promising to Become European -- Act 7 Checkpoint Gazes -- Act 8 The Romani -- Act 9 Return to Guatemala -- Act 10 Unintentional Acts of Citizenship (The Joke) -- Part III: Sites and Scales of Answerability -- Chapter 9 Citizenship, Art and the Voices of the City: Wodiczko's The Homeless Projection -- 'The Voice of the City' -- Plato and Jacobs on the City -- A City of Voices -- Voices and Dialogic Hybridity -- Citizenship and Art in the Multi-voiced City -- Beyond Communitarianism and Political Liberalism -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Acts of Chinese Citizenship: The Tank Man and Democracy-to-Come -- The Tiananmen Protest -- Moments of Political Rupture for Justice and Democracy-to-Come -- (Un)Making Political Identity -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement, Notes and References.

Chapter 11 Answerability with Cosmopolitan Intent: An Ethics-Based Politics for Acts of Urban Citizenship -- Similarities and Differences -- Defining Acts of Citizenship -- Necessary Indifference and Answerability with Cosmopolitan Intent -- Bakhtin: The Bus Uncle and the Limits of Dialogic Pluralism -- Simmel: Cosmopolitan States of Co-being? -- Derrida: Citizen Politics and the Political after 9/11 -- Derrida and Simmel: Catching Acts between Law and Justice -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements, Note and References -- Acts III: Rituals and Performance -- Act 11 Acts of Commemoration -- Act 12 Non-Citizens' Politics -- Act 13 Flash Mobs -- Act 14 Spike Lee's 25th Hour -- Index.

Examines theories of how citizenship is mediated between lived experiences and formal entitlements in order to map out, confine, extend, name, and enact the boundaries of belonging to a polity. This book assembles deep traditions in social and political thought to provide a examination of acts of citizenship in this useful way.

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