Syllabus
Rogers Brubaker, “Citizenship as Social Closure”
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Michael Walzer, “Membership”
Saskia Sassen, “The Repositioning of Citizenship: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics”
David Held, “The Transformation of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization”
Seyla Benhabib, “Borders, Boundaries and Citizenship”
Manfred B. Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction.
Martha Nussbaum, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism”
Andrew Linklater, “Cosmopolitan Citizenship”
Bhikhu Parekh, “Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship”
Seyla Benhabib, “Transformations of Citizenship: The Case of Contemporary Europe”
Saskia Sassen, “Towards Post-National and Denationalized Citizenship”
Engin F. Isin, “Citizenship in Flux: The Figure of the Activist Citizen”
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, “Transnational Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics”
Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
Hannah Arendt, “The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man”
Andrew E. Shacknove, “Who Is a Refugee?”
Alexander Betts, “The Normative Terrain of the Global Refugee Regime”
UNHCR, Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
In-Class Film Screening: In This World, directed by Michael Winterbottom
Liisa H. Malkki, “Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism and Dehistoricization”
Seth M. Holmes and Heide Castaneda, “Representing the ‘European Refugee Crisis’ in Germany and Beyond: Deservingness and Difference, Life and Death”
Irina Angelescu, “One Frontier, Many Boundaries? European Union Migration Policies”
Lillian M. Langford, “The Other Euro Crisis: Rights Violations Under the Common European Asylum System and the Unraveling of EU Solidarity”
Elena Fontanari, “Confined to the Threshold: The Experiences of Asylum Seekers in Germany”
Kim Rygiel, “Bordering Solidarities: Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement and Camps at Calais”
Robert Dahl, “Can International Organizations Be Democratic?”
Claudia Aradau and Jef Huysmans, “Mobilising (Global) Democracy: A Political Reading of Mobility between Universal Rights and the Mob”
Jan Aart Scholte, “Global Civil Society: Opportunity or Obstacle for Democracy?”