The Open University is pleased to invite attentees to the first six-day Symposium ‘Citizenship after Orientalism’ that will include the Conference ‘Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship’, an International PhD School ‘Tracing Colonialism and Orientalism in Social and Political Thought’, and a series of workshops addressing specific topics on critical new ways of conceptualising citizenship.
The first Symposium traces contesting political subjectivities aiming to discuss what are deemed appropriate political forms of struggles. This question seems most relevant today, in light of the contemporary re-articulation of orientalist and colonial projects, the increasing popular discontent towards renewed exclusionary logics, and the contested meanings of democratic politics beyond territorial and territorialising states and nations.
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