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This course will provide an introduction to some of the key theoretical, historical and contemporary debates around the relationship between citizenship and racialised exclusion. It will set the background by exploring the origins and development of racism, from the Enlightenment to Trans-Atlantic Slavery, the British Empire and beyond, before examining theoretical debates on the relationship between the state, the nation and its citizens. What does it mean to be a citizen? Is it always the same in law and fact? How and why are people stripped of their citizenship? And in what ways are these in/exclusions produced in space and place. In doing so, it will focus on the way that racialised discourses have come to be operationalised in a range of social processes and institutions, examining how the state is implicated in racial definition and racial management, and the role that 鈥榬ace thinking鈥� has played in the production of inequalities and exclusions. The course will also take into account the articulation and intersection of citizenship with other forms of social differentiation such as gender and class. Students will examine racial formations of citizenship in relation to historical and contemporary examples from across the globe.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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