Political Science

Citizenship after Orientalism

Name: Citizenship after Orientalism
Author: Engin Isin
ISBN: 9781137479501

by Engin Isin

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Overview

... empires and nation - states , but the two books by E.J. Hobsbawm illustrate the problem well where he ends the age of empires in 1914 yet he begins the age of nation - states in 1780. E.J. Hobsbawm , The Age of Empire , 1875–1914 ( New ...

Synopsis

This edited volume presents a critique of citizenship as exclusively and even originally a European or 'Western' institution. It explores the ways in which we may begin to think differently about citizenship as political subjectivity.