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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bosniak, Linda

Titel

Citizenship and Bleakness

Ist Teil von

• Citizenship studies, 2022-07, Vol.26 (4-5), p.382-386

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Responding to the editors' prompt: 'Has your relationship to the study of citizenship changed?' I ask in this brief essay whether the language of citizenship possesses the resources to contend with the fairly dire set of circumstances we currently face. I suggest that the concept's analytical and normative force relies on certain democratic and universalist horizons which are under siege or in some state of collapse, and I therefore wonder whether continuing to frame social analytics in citizenship terms might not presuppose as backdrop a political world that is vanishing. I also query, in preliminary terms, how much a conceptual project so often conceived and embraced as world-building in spirit can help make instructive sense of the proliferating devastations of this current moment.