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Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship - for iPod/iPhone The Open University
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How do we define being a citizen? In what ways has the idea of citizenship expanded?
At a time when tumultuous world events, from Israel to India, call for a deeper understanding of the purpose and power of citizenship
Dr Engin Isin, Professor of Citizenship at The Open University leads a team of academics to explore how the concept of citizenship is being refigured and renewed around the globe.
The tracks in this audio collection examine the new and diverse ways in which citizenship is and has been enacted across the planet and how these perspectives undermine the traditional assumption that it’s an exclusively European institution.
The material in this collection relates to Oecumene Citizenship After Orientalism; a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
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Citizenship after Orientalism
Professor Engin Isin explains why there’s a need to start altering the traditional views that have been held about the idea of citizenship.
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Transcript -- Citizenship after Orientalism
Professor Engin Isin explains why there’s a need to start altering the traditional views that have been held about the idea of citizenship.
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Writing Citizenship
Dr Alessandra Marino examines how ‘acts of writing’ can support indigenous movements for civil and environmental rights, using the example of Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy and her activism against dams in India.
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Transcript -- Writing Citizenship
Dr Alessandra Marino examines how ‘acts of writing’ can support indigenous movements for civil and environmental rights, using the example of Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy and her activism against dams in India.
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Democrats, citizens, fools
Dr Deena Dajani considers the idea that the right to question authority wasn’t solely rooted in the liberal tradition of thinking of rights as abstract entitlements but in fact was enacted centuries earlier by the supposedly mad court jester.
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Transcript -- Democrats, citizens, fools
Dr Deena Dajani considers the idea that the right to question authority wasn’t solely rooted in the liberal tradition of thinking of rights as abstract entitlements but in fact was enacted centuries earlier by the supposedly mad court jester.
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