Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-78660-677-8 • Hardback • November 2018 • $125.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-78660-678-5 • eBook • November 2018 • $39.99 • (£24.95)
Marie Beauchamps is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow at the School for Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London.
Preface: Of Denaturalisation, Affective Citizenship and Why It Matters / 1. Introduction: Setting the Stage: Conceptual Framework / Part I: The Foreigners of the French Revolution / 2. Citizen Subject and Subject Citizen: Questions of Belonging, Enclosure and Repression / 3. Becoming Foreigner 1: The Nation as Space Susceptible to Intrusion / 4. Becoming Foreigner 2: The Nation and Its Affective Economies / 5. Becoming Foreigner 3: The Nation and Its Juridical Community / 6. Transitional Conclusion: The Birth of the Affective National Citizen/ Part II: Denaturalisation and the First World War: From Belonging to Repression / 7. Denaturalisation: An Othering Discursive Practice / 8. Affective Community versus Conditional Identity / 9. Transitional Conclusion: Belonging, Citizenship and Nationality / Part III: Denaturalisation and the Second World War: Modelling the Self, Creating the Other / 10. Expanding Denaturalisation before the War / 1.. Of Interest, Worthiness and Repression: Denaturalisation as Systematic Revision of Naturalisation Decrees / 12. Peine d’Indignité Nationale: Echoes of Denaturalisation Practices? / 13. Transitional Conclusion: Nationality as Politics of Enclosure and Repression / Part IV: Terrorism, Nationality and Citizenship: France and Beyond / 14. Of the Link between the War against Terrorism and Denaturalisation / 15. Counterterrorism and Affect / 16. The 21st Century Struggles over Denaturalisation / Conclusion: Affective Citizenship and Denaturalisation
Marie Beauchamps has written a most timely book on denaturalisation. Using a set of cases spread throughout French history, she highlights both the recurrence of state actors making citizens foreign and the political and identitarian stakes involved. It is a frightening genealogy showing that citizenship is never to be taken for granted and is easily considered to be a privilege rather than a right by those with governmental power. Her book also makes a major contribution to security studies through its conceptually innovative analysis of how emotional economies of insecurity play out in political situations. It makes a great case for the importance of the archival study of citizenship practices and the political enactment of emotions to understand key aspects of the contemporary politics of insecurity.
— Jef Huysmans, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary, University of London