Description
Book SynopsisCitizenship in a Transnational Canada offers a distinct look at the prospect of rethinking citizenship in a contested world of shifting narratives, evolving models, ongoing challenges, and future possibilities. The book's central theme embodies a critical awareness that we no longer live in a national citizenship world but rather in one reorganized around the emergent realities, discourses, and practices of a postcitizenship world that is reshaping how we think, talk, and do citizenship. A new vocabulary is thus required for thinking, talking, and doing citizenship if there is any hope of formulating a narrative consistent with a world of posts, trans, and isms.
The book is also premised on the assumption that the citizenship concept is experiencing an identity crisis (what it is?) and a crisis of confidence (what should it be doing?) in an increasingly diverse, changing, and complex world, disenchanted with the certainties of the past although unsure of what lies in
Table of Contents
Preface – Part 1: Framing Citizenship: Paradoxes, Problems, Politics – Contesting Citizenship: An Identity Crisis, a Crisis of Confidence – Conceptualizing Citizenship –Part 2: Unsettling Citizenship Regimes in the Settler Societies – Citizenship in Settler Societies:Citizenship Promises, Citizen Disappointments – Citizenship in a Multicultural Canada – Canada’s Citizenship/Immigration/Multiculturalism Nexus – Part 3: A Postcitizenship World: Emerging Realities, Shifting Discourses, New Practices – A Transnational Citizenship, Across Borders; Postnational Citizenship, Beyond Borders – Indigenizing Citizenship, Citizenizing Indigeneity: Citizenship in the Postcolonies – Rethinking Citizenship in a Postcitizenship Age – Index.
