SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.61 issue226Ways out of Violence. An Pending Work for the Human and Social SciencesThe Secular State and the West author indexsubject indexsearch form
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Revista mexicana de ciencias políticas y sociales

Print version ISSN 0185-1918

Abstract

SASSEN, Saskia. Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making. Towards Denationalized Citizenship?. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2016, vol.61, n.226, pp.107-139. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0185-1918(16)30005-8.

This article outlines the changing connection of citizenship to both, the national and the global. By envisaging citizenship as a contract incompletely theorized between the state and the citizen, and locating its inquiry in the point of incompleteness, the author opens up a discussion on the construal of the political. The central argument is that the formal institution of citizenship's incompleteness enables those alien to it to demand an expansion of inclusions. It has been those left outside -whether it is a citizen forced into a minority, or an immigrant- who have continued to transform the institution in time and space. Moments of instability make this phenomenon particularly visible. The nature of the present period of globalization shares this trait, even though its destabilization is partial. New kinds of political actors, who transform the relationship between state and individual, are created in this scenario, while they redraw the political.

Keywords : citizenship; denationalization; globalization; formalized institutions; incompleteness.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )