By all accounts, i should be conferenced out; but, i dragged myself out to another one today and was delightfully surprised by the fantastic talk given by Carolle Charles from Baruch College, CUNY. The event is the Bridging the Antilles: Caribbean Conference Spring 2011, put...
T.H. Marshall’s rather utopian vision of the growing inclusiveness in citizenship projects was premature, at best. In the 1950’s, at the time of his writing, social welfare was hierarchically organized decrying the reality of a universalist social citizenship. And while women, ethnic minorities, differently abled...
Our nation-centered view of citizenship can only comprehend the predicament of minoritarian ‘belonging’ as a problem of ontology – a question of belonging to a race, a gender, a class, a generation becomes kind of a ‘second nature,’ a primordial identification, an inheritance of tradition,...
I've passed. Four weeks of non-stop writing, thinking, scribbling and worrying culminating in three hours of my stuttering, stammering, going blank, scribbling notes, laughing nervously and generally willing time to speed up (oh worm-hole, where were you?!), and i got four signatures. I promptly wandered out,...
Today, i'm writing on citizenship. I have a vague sense of it form all the prattling i do about health citizenship, but i've felt that my focus has been too narrow. So, in three sentences or less, i need to define citizenship and the ways...