European Alternatives and Forum for European Philosophy 'Provocations series'

Citizenship after Orientalism

Engin F. Isin, Chair in Citizenship and Professor of Politics, Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University and Centre for Citizenship, Identities, Governance (CCIG), Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University.

Prof Isin will read critically a text by Max Weber on citizenship, highlighting the assumptions that citizenship is a notion that emerged and is only applicable in the West. Highlighting these presuppositions will allow a non-orientalist vision of the different forms of citizenship which are present in other cultures and civilisations.