Renewing Post-National Citizenship

Abstract

This essay explores how the critique of national citizenship has evolved over the past 25 years. Specifically, I focus on the literature which grew out of Yasemin Soysal’s seminal work Limits of Citizenship. Soysal argued for a post-national model of membership based on observations that rights traditionally associated with citizenship were becoming increasingly separated from the nation. I explore how, while some have taken up the study of post-national citizenship as a cosmopolitan research agenda, many others have subjected this idea to sustained critique on the basis that the empirical observations on which it rests have not materialised. Indeed, the continued hegemony of the national citizenship model suggests that this is not soon to change. However, I look to the literature on acts of citizenship, itself a major thread of research over the past quarter of a century, to argue that there is scope to reclaim post-nationalism as a fruitful lens for the study of citizenship-as-practice.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091253
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC)
College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities
Aston University (General)
Additional Information: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Acts of citizenship,Yasemin Soysal,cosmopolitanism,post-nationalism,Geography, Planning and Development,Political Science and International Relations
Publication ISSN: 1469-3593
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2024 08:39
Date Deposited: 15 Mar 2022 14:32
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Published Date: 2022
Published Online Date: 2022-06-29
Accepted Date: 2022-03-21
Authors: Tonkiss, Katie (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0671-3357)

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