Chapter
Citizens, Strangers, Aliens, Outcasts
Sites and Scales of Answerability
Part I: Politics, Ethics,
Aesthetics
Chapter 1 Theorizing
Acts of Citizenship
Citizenship in Flux: Subjects, Sites, Scales
Theorizing Citizenship: Status, Habitus, Acts
Theorizing Ethical Acts: Responsibility and Answerability
Theorizing Political Acts: Law and Justice
Investigating Acts of Citizenship: Becoming Activist Citizens
Chapter 2 Can an Act of Citizenship Be Creative?
Bergson’s Method of Intuition
The Habits of Citizenship
Creativity and the Act of Citizenship
Acknowledgments and References
Chapter 3 What Levinas Can and Cannot Teach Us About Mediating Acts of Citizenship
Thesis 1: The Impossible Passage from the Face-to-Face to the Third Party
Thesis 2: Whose Metaphysics, Whose Hospitality?
Acts I: Heroic Intrusions and the Body of Law
Act 1 Abraham’s Sacrifice
Act 2 Antigone’s Offering
Act 3 The Death of Socrates
Act 5 Pat Tillman: Soldier-Citizen-Hero?
Part II: Citizens, Strangers, Aliens, Outcasts
Chapter 4 Citizenship Without Acts? With Tocqueville in America
The Political and the Social
Equality, Association and Dissociation
Similarity and Difference
Chapter 5 Acts of Piety:The Political and the Religious, or a Tale of Two Cities
Justification and the City
Rituals of Intimacy in South-east Asia
Conclusion: the Global Umma and the Crisis of Secularism
Chapter 6 Arendt’s Citizenship and Citizen Participation in Disappearing Dublin
Citizen Participation and Dublin
Hannah Arendt, Democracy and Citizen Participation
Action and the Human Condition
Citizenship, Freedom and the Public World
Labouring, Work and Citizenship Acts
A Reflexive Analysis of the Tension between the Planning Discourse and the Culture of Dublin
Chapter 7 No One Is Illegal Between City and Nation
Vocalizing Acts of Citizenship
Autonomous Acts of Self-Representation
Acts of Regularization: Between City and Nation
Mediating Acts of Citizenship
Chapter 8 Acts of Demonstration: Mapping the Territory of (Non-)Citizenship
Unauthorized Migration and Homo Sacer
The Autonomy of Migration
Mapping the Territory of (Non-)Citizenship
Acts II: Exclusions Without Names
Act 6 Promising to Become European
Act 9 Return to Guatemala
Act 10 Unintentional Acts of Citizenship
(The Joke)
Part III: Sites and Scales of Answerability
Chapter 9 Citizenship, Art and the Voices of the City: Wodiczko’s The Homeless Projection
Plato and Jacobs on the City
Voices and Dialogic Hybridity
Citizenship and Art in the Multi-voiced City
Beyond Communitarianism and Political Liberalism
Chapter 10 Acts of Chinese Citizenship: The Tank Man and Democracy-to-Come
Moments of Political Rupture for Justice and Democracy-to-Come
(Un)Making Political Identity
Acknowledgement, Notes and References
Chapter 11 Answerability with Cosmopolitan Intent: An Ethics-Based Politics for Acts of Urban Citizenship
Similarities and Differences
Defining Acts of Citizenship
Necessary Indifference and Answerability with Cosmopolitan Intent
Bakhtin: The Bus Uncle and the Limits of Dialogic Pluralism
Simmel: Cosmopolitan States of Co-being?
Derrida: Citizen Politics and the Political after 9/11
Derrida and Simmel: Catching Acts between Law and Justice
Acknowledgements, Note and References
Acts III: Rituals and Performance
Act 11 Acts of
Commemoration
Act 12 Non-Citizens’ Politics
Act 14 Spike Lee’s
25th Hour
Acts of Citizenship
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