{"product_id":"acts-of-citizenship-9781842779521","title":"Acts of Citizenship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen.  Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens.  They claim that such an act involves both responsibility and answerability, but is ultimately irreducible to either.  This study of citizenship is truly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on new developments in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology, but also on psychoanalysis, philosophy and history.  Ranging from Antigone and Socrates in the ancient world to checkpoints, euthanasia and flash mobs in the modern one, the 'acts' and chapters here build up a dynamic and wide-ranging picture.  Acts of Citizenship provides important new insights for all those concerned with the relationship between individuals, groups and polities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Acts of Citizenship is itself an exuberant, startling, act of social theory about the acts that create and transform our bonds as citizens. The names of Derrida, Levinas, and Agamben fly from the pages, along with a range of figures such as the Tank Man of Tiananmen square, Socrates, Seneca and Pat Tillman. This is the book to read if you want to know where social theory is now.' Stephen Turner, University of Southern Florida  'Without nostalgia or sentimentality, this volume revives even as it disseminates and complicates an appreciation of active citizenship. Philosophically rich, culturally wide-ranging and eminently readable, this is a marvelous, indeed inspiring book' Wendy Brown, University of California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction:  Acts of Citizenship - Engin F. Isin \u0026amp; Greg M. Nielsen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Theorizing Acts of Citizenship - Engin F. Isin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Can an Act of Citizenship be Creative? - Melanie White\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3: What Levinas Can and Cannot Teach Us about Mediating Acts of Citizenship - Bettina Bergo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eActs I: Heroic Intrusions and the Body of Law\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 1. Abraham's Sacrifice - Charles Wells\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 2: Antigone's Offering - Charles Wells\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 3: Socrates's Death - Bora Ali Isyar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 4: Euthanasia - Bora Ali Isyar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 5: Pat Tillman: soldier-citizen-hero? - Darryl Burgwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Citizens, Strangers, Aliens, Outcasts\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Citizenship without Acts? With Tocqueville in America - Brian C. J. Singer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Acts of Piety: The Political and the Religious or a Tale of Two Cities - Bryan S. Turner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Arendt's Citizenship and Citizen Participation in Disappearing Dublin - Kieran Bonner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. No One Is Illegal Between City and Nation - Peter Nyers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Acts of Demonstration: Mapping the Territory of (Non-) Citizenship - William Walters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eActs II: Exclusions without names\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 6. Promising to Become European - Erkan Ercel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 7: Checkpoint Gazes - Irus Braverman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 8: The Romani - Ebru Üstündag\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 9: Return to Guatemala - Karine Côté-Boucher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 10: Unintentional Acts of Citizenship (The Joke) - Ian Morrison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: Sites and Scales of Answerability\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Citizenship, Art and the Voices of the City: Wodiczko's The Homeless Projection - Fred Evans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Acts of Chinese Citizenship: The Tank Man and Democracy-to-Come - Yon Hsu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Answerability with Cosmopolitan Intent: An Ethics Based Politics for Acts of Urban Citizenship - Greg M. Nielsen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eActs III: Rituals and Performance\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 11. Acts of Commemoration - Ian Morrison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 12. Non-Citizens' Politics - John Saunders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 13: Flash mobs - John Saunders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAct 14: Spike Lee's 25th Hour - Erkan Ercel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771536343383,"sku":"9781842779521","price":28.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781842779521.jpg?v=1758728196","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/acts-of-citizenship-9781842779521","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}