This project explores how the concept of citizenship is being redefined around the world. At a time when momentous world events, from the Arab Spring to Occupy, call for a deeper understanding of the purpose and power of citizenship, this project opens up the boundaries of citizenship by exploring political subjectivities within and outside ‘Europe’ broadly understood. It starts with a profound tension between two different institutions: citizenship, the process by which political subjectivity is recognised and enacted, and orientalism, the process by which Europe is considered the birthplace of ‘universal ideas’ such as democracy, secularism, rights, and capitalism. What is the tension? Read on...
Editorial Partnership
This editorial partnership, funded by the Oecumene Project at the Open University, was launched in November 2012 with a guest week edited by Engin Isin, Principal Investigator of the Oecumene project.
Read 'Citizenship after Orientalism: an introduction
This editorial partnership, funded by the Oecumene Project at the Open University, was launched in November 2012 with a guest week edited by Engin Isin, Principal Investigator of the Oecumene project.
Who are our partners?
Read more about the project team, advisory board and activist network forming the Oecumene project
Read more about the project team, advisory board and activist network forming the Oecumene project
Citizenship and Orientalism week
Engin Isin was openDemocracy's guest editor for the week starting November 5th 2012. Here is how the week unfolded:
Engin Isin was openDemocracy's guest editor for the week starting November 5th 2012. Here is how the week unfolded:
Migrants and Muslims
Turning authority on its head
Subjugated knowledges of India
Citizenship and the juridical-political
Citizens without frontiers
Engin Isin's inaugural lecture from the first Oecumene symposium discusses Médecins Sans Frontières and other movements that traverse frontiers.
Podcasts
Engin Isin, Anne McNevin and Kim Rygiel discuss 'Citizens without frontiers' (42 mins)
Engin Isin and Rada Iveković discuss 'Citizens without frontiers' (34 mins)
Engin Isin's inaugural lecture from the first Oecumene symposium discusses Médecins Sans Frontières and other movements that traverse frontiers.
PodcastsEngin Isin, Anne McNevin and Kim Rygiel discuss 'Citizens without frontiers' (42 mins)
Engin Isin and Rada Iveković discuss 'Citizens without frontiers' (34 mins)
Mali - the plot thickens
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Citizens without frontiers
Engin Isin's keynote lecture from the first symposium on Médecins Sans Frontières and other movements that traverse frontiers.
Engin Isin's keynote lecture from the first symposium on Médecins Sans Frontières and other movements that traverse frontiers.
