Globalizing Citizenship - Hardcover

Rygiel, Kim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774818042 ISBN 13: 9780774818049

Publisher: UBC Press, 2010

Synopsis

The events of 9/11 exposed and enhanced tensions between globalcapitalism and the nation-state. Governments struggle more than ever togovern populations and manage cross-border traffic without building newbarriers to trade and commerce. What does citizenship mean in thiscontext? Is it in crisis?

Kim Rygiel explores these questions by examining border anddetention policies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada,and Australia as part of a larger politics of citizenship that preceded9/11. Building on Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, she arguesthat citizenship is becoming a globalizing regime to govern mobility asnations harmonize border and detention policies, outsource statefunctions to international organizations and private companies, andrely on technologies of governing to discipline the body. The newmobility regime is not only deepening boundaries based on race, class,and gender, it is causing Western nations to embrace a moretechnocratic, depoliticized understanding of citizenship.

About this title

About the Author

Kim Rygiel is an assistant professor of politicalscience at Wilfrid Laurier University and co-editor of(En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and CamouflagedPolitics.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774818042
• ISBN 13: 9780774818049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272