The question of citizenship lies at the heart of the legitimacy of rule and political subjectivity, but its origins are European and orientalist. In a dewesternizing world, how can citizenship be reconceptualised? (Video, 33 minutes)
See also this interview with Walter Mignolo on orientalism and occidentalism.
This video is part of a series published this week from the Oecumene project's second symposium, 'Deorientalising Citizenship?'. All of the videos will appear on the Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism partnership page, which is funded by the Oecumene Project and the Open University.
Walter D. Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, USA, who has worked on different aspects of the modern and colonial world and since 2000, has directed the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, a research unit within the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies.
