Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative

by Amy L Brandzel, Amy L. Brandzel, Amy L Brandzel

Book Overview

Numerous activists and scholars have appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of "citizenship." Against Citizenship provocatively shows that there is nothing redeemable about citizenship, nothing worth salvaging or sustaining in the name of "community," practice, or belonging. According to Brandzel, citizenship is a violent dehumanizing mechanism that makes the comparative devaluing of human lives seem commonsensical, logical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081501
• ISBN13: 9780252081507
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"