Economic Citizenship
Economic Citizenship

Author: Amalia Sa’ar

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1785331809

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With the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities. Businesses, municipalities, grassroots activists, and state functionaries share in projects meant to help vulnerable populations become self-supportive. Ironically, such projects produce odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and place the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism. Using theoretical concepts of economic citizenship and emotional capitalism, Economic Citizenship exposes the paradoxes that are deep within neoliberal interpretations of citizenship and analyzes the unexpected consequences of applying globally circulating notions to concrete local contexts.

Neoliberalism as Exception
Neoliberalism as Exception

Author: Aihwa Ong

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2006-07-19

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780822337485

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DIVA successor to FLEXIBLE CITIZENSHIP, focusing on the meanings of citizenship to different classes of immigrants and transnational subjects./div

The Moral Neoliberal
The Moral Neoliberal

Author: Andrea Muehlebach

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-05-25

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0226545415

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Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state’s withdrawal of social service programs. Using anthropological tools, she shows how socialist volunteers are interpreting their unwaged labor as an expression of social solidarity, with Catholic volunteers thinking of theirs as an expression of charity and love. Such interpretations pave the way for a mass mobilization of an ethical citizenry that is put to work by the state. Visiting several sites across the region, from Milanese high schools to the offices of state social workers to the homes of the needy, Muehlebach mounts a powerful argument that the neoliberal state nurtures selflessness in order to cement some of its most controversial reforms. At the same time, she also shows how the insertion of such an anticapitalist narrative into the heart of neoliberalization can have unintended consequences.

Neoliberal Nationalism
Neoliberal Nationalism

Author: Christian Joppke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1108482597

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Shows how liberal, neoliberal, and nationalist ideas have combined to impact Western states' immigration and citizenship policies.

Neocitizenship
Neocitizenship

Author: Eva Cherniavsky

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1479893579

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Neocitizenship and critique -- Post-Soviet American studies -- Uncivil society in The white boy shuffle -- Beginnings without end : derealizing the political in Battlestar Galactica -- Unreal -- Refugees from this native dreamland

Race for Citizenship
Race for Citizenship

Author: Helen Heran Jun

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2011-02-23

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0814745016

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Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on ‘inter-racial prejudice,’ Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national identity. Race for Citizenship examines three salient moments when African American and Asian American citizenship become acutely visible as related crises: the ‘Negro Problem’ and the ‘Yellow Question’ in the mid- to late 19th century; World War II-era questions around race, loyalty, and national identity in the context of internment and Jim Crow segregation; and post-Civil Rights discourses of disenfranchisement and national belonging under globalization. Taking up a range of cultural texts—the 19th century black press, the writings of black feminist Anna Julia Cooper, Asian American novels, African American and Asian American commercial film and documentary—Jun does not seek to document signs of cross-racial identification, but instead demonstrates how the logic of citizenship compels racialized subjects to produce developmental narratives of inclusion in the effort to achieve political, economic, and social incorporation. Race for Citizenship provides a new model of comparative race studies by situating contemporary questions of differential racial formations within a long genealogy of anti-racist discourse constrained by liberal notions of inclusion.

Cultural Citizenship
Cultural Citizenship

Author: Toby Miller

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781592135622

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A lively, incisive view of what citizenship means today.

Citizen Hariri
Citizen Hariri

Author: Hannes Baumann

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0190687169

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A new political biography of the Titan of Lebanese politics, whose influential legacy continues to shape the Levant years after his assassination

Neoliberal Citizenship
Neoliberal Citizenship

Author: Luca Mavelli

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-02-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0192672118

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With cosmopolitan illusions put to rest, Europe is now haunted by a pervasive neoliberal transformation of citizenship that subordinates inclusion, protection, and belonging to rationalities of value. Against the backdrop of four major crises - Eurozone, refugee, Brexit, and the COVID-19 pandemic - this book explores how neoliberal citizenship rewrites identities and solidarities in economic terms. The result is a sacralized market order in which those superfluous to economic needs and regarded as unproductive consumers of resources - be they undocumented migrants, debased citizens of austerity, or the elderly in care homes - are excluded and sacrificed for the well-being of the economy. Pushing biopolitical theorizing in novel directions through an investigation of the political economy of scarcity and the theology of the market, Neoliberal Citizenship reveals how a common thread connects the suspension of search-and-rescue missions in the Mediterranean, the punitive bailout of Greece, the widespread adoption of austerity measures, the normalization of racism, the celebration of resilience, and the fact that in Europe and North America, during the first wave of the pandemic, almost half of all COVID-19 deaths were care home residents. This thread is the sacralization of the market that, by making life conditional upon its economic and emotional value, turns 'less valuable' individuals into sacrificial subjects. Neoliberal Citizenship challenges established understandings of citizenship, brings to light new regimes of inclusion and exclusion, and advances critical insights on the future of neoliberalism in a post-COVID-19 world.

Contesting Citizenship
Contesting Citizenship

Author: Anne McNevin

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 023152224X

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Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces that generate new subjectivities. Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization. McNevin casts irregular migrants as more than mere victims of sovereign power, shuttled from one location to the next. Incorporating examples from the United States, Australia, and France, she shows how migrants reject their position as "illegal" outsiders and make claims on the communities in which they live and work. For these migrants, outsider status operates as both a mode of subjectification and as a site of active resistance, forcing observers to rethink the enactment of citizenship. McNevin connects irregular migrant activism to the complex rescaling of the neoliberal state. States increasingly prioritize transnational market relations that disrupt the spatial context for citizenship. At the same time, states police their borders in ways that reinvigorate territorial identities. Mapping the broad dynamics of political belonging in a neoliberal era, McNevin provides invaluable insight into the social and spatial transformation of citizenship, sovereignty, and power.