Do we need a new form of transnational civic membership? Do we need to rethink civic rights and responsibilities beyond those rooted in the nation state? Do we need to imagine forms of post-national political participation? Can there be a genuinely transnational demos?

These questsions are addressed by our event series Refiguring Citizenship, of which this event is part.

Thursday 18 February, 7.00-8.30pm
Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, SW7
Citizenship after Orientalism
Engin F. Isin, Chair in Citizenship and Professor of Politics, Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University and Director, Centre for Citizenship, Identities, Governance (CCIG), Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University.

Prof Isin will read critically a text by Max Weber on citizenship, highlighting the assumptions that citizenship is a notion that emerged and is only applicable in the West. Highlighting these presuppositions will allow a non-orientalist vision of the different forms of citizenship which are present in other cultures and civilisations.

Texts for the seminar:
Introduction of Prof Isin to the subject
Weber 1920