Citizens without frontiers. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Engin F. Isin.
• Other Names: Isin, Engin F (Engin Fahri), 1959-
• Contents: Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Of Those Whose Acts Traverse Frontiers; What does 'without frontiers' signify?; Professions, citizens, activists; Citizens without frontiers; Interrogating and transgressing frontiers; 'We, the people' and 'we, the connected'; Making citizens activists; Three genres of writing; Act 1. Of treason: WikiLeaks; Act 2. Of rage: Rachel Corrie; Act 3. Of disobedience: Conscientious or civil?; 2 'We, the People'; What is called sovereignty?; Narrating sovereignties; How did the nation conquer the state? The invention of 'we, the people' as the nationCounter-narratives of other peoples, popolo, peuple and populism; Sovereignty as a question of a whole and its parts; Act 4. Of defence: Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; Act 5. Of censoring: The Golden Shield Project; Act 6. Of espionage: Stuxnet; Act 7. Of assassination: Drones; Act 8. Of writing: Banksy; Act 9. Of solidarity: Strangers into Citizens; 3 'We, the Connected'; Are we all connected?; Of ethical and political subjectivities; Counter-narratives of connectivity: Cyberhackers and hacktivists; Genealogies, topologies, connectivity. Paradoxes, multiplicities, heterogeneitiesPolitics without 'we, the people'?; Act 10. Of identification: We are all Khaled Said; Act 11. Of hacking: LulzSec; Act 12. Of defiance: No One Is Illegal; Act 13. Of staging: Climate Camp; 4 Enacting Citizenship; Citizenship as political subjectivity; Disobedience as enacting citizenship; Beginning something new; Subjectivity, performativity, enactment; Acts of citizenship; Investigating acts; Activism as traversal citizenship; Act 14. Of speech: Waging Peace; Act 15. Of fury: Mariyam Manike; 5 Citizens without Frontiers; Traversing frontiers. Why political subjectivity without frontiers?Why acts of citizenship?; Why without frontiers?; Why traversing frontiers?; Why not global activists?; Act 16. Of declaration: 'We, the Roma Nation'; Act 17. Of resistance: International Solidarity Movement; Act 18. Of sharing: Open Rights Group; 6 Emancipating (Acts of) Citizenship; Taking the state apart -- from the nation; Emancipate your colonies!; Occupy everywhere: The enjoyment of being political; The shaking of nations; Between no longer and not yet; Act 19. Of enfranchisement: If the world could vote. Act 20. Of music: Barenboim without wordsBibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, N.Y London : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages)
• Subjects: 323.6; World citizenship; Citizenship -- Philosophy; Globalization; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights; Citizenship -- Philosophy; Globalization; World citizenship; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441127426; 1441127429; 1283848627; 9781283848626
• Related ISBNs: 9781441185839; 9781441116055
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.