Governing Affective Citizenship Denaturalization, Belonging, and Repression [#450115]

Marie Beauchamps Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow at the School for Politics and International Relations Q..., "Governing Affective Citizenship: Denaturalization, Belonging, and Repression "
English | ISBN: 1786606771 | 2018 | 186 pages | EPUB | 1083 KB
This book investigates politics of denaturalisation as a system of thought that influences seminal cultural political values, such as community, nationality, citizenship, selfhood and otherness. The context of the analysis is the politics of citizenship and nationality in France. Combining research insights from history, legal studies, security studies, and border studies, the book demonstrates that the language of denaturalisation shapes national identity as a form of formal legal attachment but also, and more counter-intuitively, as a mode of emotional belonging. As such, denaturalisation operates as an instrumental frame to maintain and secure the national community.