Keeping silent

The problem of citizenship for Lilian Thuram

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2146261
AutoresGrant Farred (autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen35
Número6
Páginas1040-1058
Fecha de publicación2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2012.661871
OpenAlexW2010480489
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas5

Drawing upon translations of the football player Lilian Thuram's critiques of French racism and immigration, as well as other English language sources on the condition of banlieue life in France, this essay explores the relationship between citizenship and representation. Rather than merely reading Thuram as an athlete, I situate him as a political figure. The essay reads Thuram philosophically: as a figure who is familiar with and thinks the French and European political through its philosophical history. It is argued that Thuram's critiques are inexplicable unless they are understood as a redress to the very philosophical core of European modernity. Instead of presuming an inevitable relationship between citizenship and representation, this essay seeks to understand how representation works in relation to questions of citizenship and the limits of citizenship in contemporary Europe for those who are defined as Berber, black or Arab

Aesthetics · Citizenship · Epistemology · Immigration · Modernity · Naturalisation · Political science · Politics · Racism · Redress · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Sociology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Philosophy