CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Gang, Lishu |
|---|---|
| Title | Non-Paradigmatic Conceptions of Citizenship: The Case of Palestinians |
| Summary | The limitations of the current state-centric citizenship paradigm are theorized by scholars such as Hannah Arendt, Yasemin Soysal, and Seyla Benhabib, and empirically shown by the violations of human rights for refugees, the stateless, minority nationals, and other groups of vulnerable people. Emerging conditions such as globalization and digitalization have given rise to citizenship conceptions different from the state citizenship: for example, transnational, stakeholder, denationalized, postnational. This paper critically examines the normative foundations for these non-paradigmatic citizenships based on the conceptions of citizenship and human rights. At the same time, it proposes a new non-paradigmatic conception: the constellation-processual approach based on performative citizenship, and argues that the new conception helps better protect the human rights of the citizens and the citizens-in-the-making. To illustrate the differences and advantages of the new conception, it uses the case of Palestinians with fragile citizenship status. This paper ultimately sees citizenship as a normative project whose theoretical foundations should be more aligned with the justifications for human rights, such as equality and autonomy agency. It seeks to expand new ways of thinking to create and transform institutions with the aim of better human rights provisions. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/gang_lishu.pdf |
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