The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
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Clarissa Rile Hayward
Linda Bosniak’s The Citizen and the Alien and Ayelet Shachar’s The Birthright Lottery are important and provocative new works, each of which draws attention to the exclusions and inequalities bound up in practices of democratic citizenship. In my response, I argue that although each author articulates a powerful critique of the institution of citizenship, neither goes far enough in the political changes she proposes. Because power relations cross the boundaries that define territorially bounded political communities, neither extending nor redistributing the benefits attached to membership in those communities is enough. Democrats must find institutional means to define and secure rights, not according to citizenship understood as political membership, but according to participation in relations of power.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Article
- Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction
- Making Membership
- Boundaries and Birthright: Bosniak's and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
- The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships
- The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
- Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
- Creedal Citizenship
- Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
- Developing Citizenship
- The Geometry of Inside and Outside
- Alien Equality
- Making Sense of Citizenship
- The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors
Articles in the same Issue
- Article
- Denaturalizing Citizenship: An Introduction
- Making Membership
- Boundaries and Birthright: Bosniak's and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
- The Political Challenges of Bounded, Unequal Citizenships
- The Dark Side of Citizenship: Membership, Territory, and the (Anti-) Democratic Polity
- Rethinking Citizenship through Alienage and Birthright Privilege: Bosniak and Shachar's Critiques of Liberal Citizenship
- Creedal Citizenship
- Prohibited Realities and Fractured Persons: Remaking Lives in Transnational Spaces
- Developing Citizenship
- The Geometry of Inside and Outside
- Alien Equality
- Making Sense of Citizenship
- The Birthright Lottery: Response to Interlocutors
