Afterword

Aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics

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ID4525567
AuthorsMeeta Rani Jha (0000-0003-3981-8232, Media Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume28
Issue1
Pages118-128
Publication date2024-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2024.2363624
OpenAlexW4399506732
LanguageEN
References cited20

This Afterword to the special issue on ‘Aesthetic Citizenship, Beauty Politics, and the State’ seeks to conceptualise further some key themes raised by its authors. The editors (Kukuczka and Liebelt, this volume) forward an understanding of citizenship as a complex aesthetic formation that combines embodiment practices, affective solidarities, and state power as a form of (neoliberal) governmentality that citizens internalise. In exploring the significance of aesthetic citizenship, I utilise Mbembe’s idea of necropolitics to understand aesthetic labour, affective solidarity, and biopower from the embodied perspectives of marginal citizens and noncitizens discussed in these articles

Aesthetics · Beauty · Biopower · Citizenship · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Governmentality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy

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