Enacting citizenship for the healthy politeia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4525119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Stevens (0000-0003-0032-6564, Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 675-688 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2022.2091251 |
| OpenAlex | W4284897938 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
In the wake of ‘end of ideology’ predictions of the late twentieth century, nationalist ideologies and discourses have proven strikingly resilient, as have authoritarian regimes relying on nationalism for their legitimacy and power. Meanwhile, so-called liberal political philosophers and theorists who claim commitments to rights and justice make arguments that invigorate nationalist subjectivities at the expense of the rule of law. This essay explains how even those who are critical of nationalist, authoritarian regimes nonetheless use a vocabulary that reinvigorates Jacques Derrida’s ‘sovereign beast’. Insights from Miguel de Cervantes and Franz Kafka are used to amplify Engin Isin’s timely if not urgent arguments on behalf of theorizing citizenship as enactments that are creative, innovative, and autonomous, and not as a status derived from membership. Plato’s views on justice and the ‘healthy politeia’, as well as examples of creativity within existing governments are elucidated to further emphasize the benefits of theorizing new scripts for citizens over proposing new theories for governments
Aesthetics · Authoritarianism · Citizenship · Democracy · Economic Justice · Ideology · Legitimacy · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
The Collected Dialogues of Plato including the letters
Fathers and children
A Theory of Justice
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice
Reproducing the State
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Genealogies of Religion
Of borders and homes
In Defense of Transracialism
Recreating the state
St. Augustine's Attitude to Religious Coercion
The Philosophy of Karl Jaspers
The Mexican War
The origins of totalitarianism
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |