Citizens without frontiers

States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements. But how does such power persist in a global world where people, ideas, and products constantly cross the borders of what the states see as their sovereign territory? This groundbreaking work sets to examine and interprets such challenges to offer a new way of thinking about citizenship. Abandoning the sovereignty principle, it develops a new image of citizenship using the connectedness principle. To do so, it interprets acts of citizenship by following "activist citizens" across the world through case studies, from Wikileaks and the Gaza flotilla to China's virtual world and Darfur. Written by a leader in the field, this accessible and original work imagines citizens without frontiers as a politics without community and belonging, inclusion without exclusion, where the frontier becomes a form of otherness that citizens erase or create. This unique work brings forth a new and creative way to approach citizenship beyond boundaries that will appeal to anyone studying citizenship, social movements, and migration.

Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Of Those Whose Acts Traverse Frontiers; What does 'without frontiers' signify?; Professions, citizens, activists; Citizens without frontiers; Interrogating and transgressing frontiers; 'We, the people' and 'we, the connected'; Making citizens activists; Three genres of writing; Act 1. Of treason: WikiLeaks; Act 2. Of rage: Rachel Corrie; Act 3. Of disobedience: Conscientious or civil?; 2 'We, the People'; What is called sovereignty?; Narrating sovereignties; How did the nation conquer the state?

The invention of 'we, the people' as the nationCounter-narratives of other peoples, popolo, peuple and populism; Sovereignty as a question of a whole and its parts; Act 4. Of defence: Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; Act 5. Of censoring: The Golden Shield Project; Act 6. Of espionage: Stuxnet; Act 7. Of assassination: Drones; Act 8. Of writing: Banksy; Act 9. Of solidarity: Strangers into Citizens; 3 'We, the Connected'; Are we all connected?; Of ethical and political subjectivities; Counter-narratives of connectivity: Cyberhackers and hacktivists; Genealogies, topologies, connectivity.

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