Being Political - 9780816632725

Being PoliticalGenealogies of Citizenship\nAuthor(s): Engin F. Isin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816632725, 978-0816632725\nSynopsis\nA provocative counterhistory-and a bold new approach-to notions of citizenship.\n\nWhat does it mean to be political? Every age has based its answer on citizenship, bequeathing us such indelible images as that of the Greek citizen exercising his rights and obligations in the agora, the Roman citizen conducting himself in the forum, medieval citizens receiving their charter before the guildhall. Being Political disrupts these images by approaching citizenship as otherness, presenting a powerful critique of universalistic and orientalist interpretations of the origins of citizenship and a persuasive alternative history of the present struggles over citizenship.\n\nWho were the strangers and outsiders of citizenship? What strategies and technologies were i.