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Mobilising (global) democracy: a political reading of mobility between universal rights and the mob
Year: 2009 Authors: Claudia Aradau & Jef HuysmansThis article argues that a political reading of mobility is instrumental for understanding the role of democracy within globalised structures of power. Relegated to a socio-economic background that prompts
new engagements with democracy, mobility has been neglected as a condition of possibility and as a form of political… More details >
Citizenship as Interpellation: Refugee Women and the State
Year: 2008 Authors: Leah BasselLeah Bassel adds the voices of actual existing refugees in her
article on citizenship, interpellation and Somali refugee women in
France. She examines the ideological function of ‘models’ of citizenship
in shaping the contours of public debate and the ability of
refugee… More details >
Political Asylum and Sovereignty-Sharing in Europe
Year: 2008 Authors: Hakan G. SicakkanHakan G. Sicakkan analyses the effects of
sovereignty-sharing on political asylum policy in the European
Union. He notes the post-1980 institutional rearrangements of
asylum decision-making in Europe, whereby international, transnational
and domestic non-state as well as intergovernmental actors
have gained… More details >
The Limits of Unilateral Migration Control: Deportation and Inter-state Cooperation
Year: 2008 Authors: Antje EllermannDespite the recent proliferation of policy initiatives designed to curb
illegal immigration, advanced industrialized states have made little
headway towards the goal of effective migration control. Examining
the case of deportation in Germany and the European Union, Ellermann
contends that one of… More details >
Asylum and the Expansion of Deportation in the United Kingdom
Year: 2008 Authors: Matthew J. GibneyDeportation has traditionally been seen as a secondary instrument of
migration control, one used by liberal democratic states relatively
infrequently and with some trepidation. This secondary status,
Gibney argues, has been assured by the fact that deportation is both
a complicated and… More details >
Paying Attention to Rudolph Gasché
Year: 2008 Authors: R. Gasché, W. Hamacher, P. Kamuf, C. Fynsk, S. Gingerich, J. Nancy, H. de Vries et. al.This is a recently published a special issue on the work of Rudolph Gasché. Gasché is best known for his work on Kant, Derrida, and ethical and political implications of “Europe”. Regarding the latter he interrogates concepts such as otherness, democracy, openness, and hospitality in their relation to “Europe”.
More details >Intimacy and Alienation: Money and the Foreign in Biak
Year: 2001 Authors: Rutherford, DanilynI approach money in this essay as neither a solvent of social differences nor a
target of resistance, but as a medium that traverses an uneven sociocultural terrain:
an interconnected series of spaces that are logically simultaneous, yet distinct
in their temporalities. Using the… More details >
Strangers, Citizens and Outsiders: Otherness, Multiculturalism and the Cosmopolitan Imaginary
Year: 2004 Authors: Rundell, JohnThis article deploys a double conceptual framework. One frame
is positioned through the ideas of absolute strangers and outsiders. The other
frame develops out of, though is distinct from, the first, and refers to the
disaggregated forms of modern citizenship. The citizen-as-absolute-stranger
… More details >
The Stranger and Social Theory
Year: 2000 Authors: Marotta, VinceThis a review essay on how Simmel’s writing on the stranger have been taken up in social theory. It draws particularly on Bauman’s more recent reformulations.
More details >The New Nomos of Europe
Year: 2009 Authors: Peter BurgessAccording to Carl Schmitt, in his late work The Nomos of the Earth,
published in 1950, the long evolution in the relation between
humans and the earth has been decisive for the nature of traditional
legal order. The historical links to European international
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