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Seminar series

The weaponization of citizenship

Punishment, erasure, and social control

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When

21 April 2022

12:00 - 13:00 CEST

Where

Sala Triaria

Villa Schifanoia

Lindsey Kingston problematizes the assumption that legal nationality is always a social good and argues that state citizenship can be weaponised as a tool of repression and erasure, as well as utilized as a bargaining chip for social control.
Lindsey Kingston problematizes the assumption that legal nationality is always a social good and argues that state citizenship – the assumed marker of political membership in our world system – can be weaponized as a tool of repression and erasure, as well as utilized as a bargaining chip for social control. The weaponization of citizenship raises important questions about the nature and value of state citizenship, including whether global society is shifting away from understanding legal nationality as a right and instead viewing it as a privilege.

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