LLP Seminar Series: The Critical Citizen?: Engin Isin, ‘The conditions of planetary citizenship’

The Language, Literature and Politics (LLP) research group's seminar series on ‘The Critical Citizen?’ presents Professor Engin Isin on the conditions that are creating planetary citizenship movements in the 21st century.

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About the talk

This lecture outlines the conditions that are creating planetary citizenship movements in the 21st century. Planetary citizens are activists, cosmopolitical, agonistic, solidaristic, and disobedient. They are mobile, multiple, and transversal; they act against injustice and for justice by performing abolishment, disobedience, refusal, and resistance.

Professor Isin will discuss how the gatekeepers have taken notice and developed various strategies of incorporation, pacification, and immobilization of planetary citizenship movements.

This event will be held online via Microsoft Teams. If you have any accessibility requirements please contact Alice Rhodes (alice.rhodes@open.ac.uk).

About 'The Critical Citizen' series

Responding to the widespread cynicism, disengagement and alienation citizens across the globe express towards official political cultures, this series investigates the idea of ‘the critical citizen’. What constitutes a critical citizen? And can a critical citizenry be (re-) activated as an antidote to contemporary political crises?

More information on the Language, Literature and Politics Research Group can be found on the FASS website.