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. Rather than jettison the…
Specifikacia 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. Rather than jettison the idea of universal citizenship, however, R. Andr s Guzm n builds on these critiques to reaffirm it especially within the fields of Latina/o and ethnic studies. 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