Universal Citizenship - Latina/o Studies at the Limits of Identity Guzman R. AndresPaperback / softback
Universal Citizenship - Latina/o Studies at the Limits of Identity Guzman R. AndresPaperback / softback Recently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the…
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Universal Citizenship - Latina/o Studies at the Limits of Identity Guzman R. AndresPaperback / softback
Recently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on which the notion of universality rests. Andr s Guzm n builds on these critiques to reaffirm it especially within the fields of Latina/o and ethnic studies. Rather than jettison the idea of universal citizenship, however, R.
Beyond conceptualizing citizenship as an outcome of recognition and admittance by the nation-state--in a negotiation for the right to have rights--he asserts that, insofar as universal citizenship entails a forceful entrance into the political from the latter's foundational exclusions, it emerges at the limits of legality and illegality via a process that exceeds identitarian capture.Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosopher Alain Badiou's notion of "generic politics," Guzm n advances his argument through