Abstract
This chapter explores unfamiliar acts of citizenship located in cultural enactment(s). It unpacks what is unfamiliar here and the implications of focusing on cultural practices for how we can better understand citizenship as a challenge and re-enactment. It points to the indirect nature of cultural acts which are engaged in through embodied and affective meaning rather than as direct statements/declarations of discontent. I look at how these are mobilised within, and start from, an indeterminate and ambiguous space of inclusion and exclusion, rather than from a starting point of familiar political struggle which end up at questions of ambiguity and indeterminacy. Drawing on decolonial theory, I argue that they therefore force us to think about the unfamiliar (not yet recognised) ways we have yet to imagine and understand that citizenship struggles may take place. It uses the example of vernacular language as a cultural act to consider this in detail.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Gender, Race and Inclusive Citizenship: Dialogue Zwischen Aktivismus und Wissenschaft |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
| Pages | 273–290 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-658-36391-8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-658-36390-1 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 21 Sept 2022 |