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Since December , flashing images of protests in Sudan have appeared in mainstream media.
In this article, we reflect on how art has been one of the key drivers of the revolution and the transformation of local and diasporic citizenship claims pertaining to Sudan. The revolution was propelled by demonstrations all over Sudan.
The demonstrations demanding freedom, peace and justice culminated in a million persons march happened on the 6 th of April, Demonstrators reached the Army headquarters in Khartoum and were joined by people from all over Sudan. They demanded that military forces that overthrew Omar El Bashir representing military junta that came to power through a coup in on 11 th of April hand over power to a civilian led transitional government.
Artistic and creative practice has played a seminal contribution to the development of resistance and the revolution. Women artists were significantly more absent. During the sit in, the walls of the city became covered with extensive murals or art work. Within the sit in zone a huge 3 km canvas was being prepared by artists within the premises of a technical training school.
This canvas was to be presented to the public. Their investigation into acts of citizenship involves a sustained engagement with interdisciplinary thought, drawing from new developments not only in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology but also psychoanalysis, philosophy and history.
It also requires crossing genres from science to art to philosophy to grasp the complex ways in which subjects articulate themselves into citizens. The book assembles together deep traditions in social and political thought to provide a focused examination of acts of citizenship in this new way. It also addresses key historical and contemporary issues that are of vital importance to citizenship studies today, using the vantage points of aesthetics, justice, ethics and the political.
Its theoretical and analytical chapters are supplemented with shorter essays providing illustrative examples of 'acts'. This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen.
Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility and answerability, but is ultimately irreducible to either.
Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. Engin F. Isin holds a Chair in Citizenship and Professor of Politics in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Open. Download Citation on ResearchGate | Acts of Citizenship | This book examines theories of how citizenship is mediated between lived experiences and formal.
This study of citizenship is truly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on new developments in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology, but also on psychoanalysis, philosophy and history. Ranging from Antigone and Socrates in the ancient world to checkpoints, euthanasia and flash mobs in the modern one, the 'acts' and chapters here build up a dynamic and wide-ranging picture.
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Acts of Citizenship provides important new insights for all those concerned with the relationship between individuals, groups and polities.