Citizenship After Orientalism
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1 Citizenship after Orientalism 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 9781137479495_txt.indd 1 6/25/15 3:10 AM 1 Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions 2 Series editors 3 4 Michele Michiletti is Lars Hierta Chair of Political Science at Stockholm University, 5 Sweden. Ludvig Beckman is Professor of Political Science, Stockholm University, 6 Sweden. David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of 7 Southampton, UK. 8 9 The Editorial Board: Keith Banting (Queen’s University, Canada), Rainer Baubock 10 (European University Institute, Italy), Russell Dalton (University of California at 11 Irving, USA), Avigail Eisenberg (University of Victoria, Canada), Nancy Fraser (The 12 New School for Social Research, USA), David Jacobson (University of South Florida, 13 USA) and Ariadne Vromen (The University of Sydney, Australia). 14 This series focuses on citizenship transitions encompassing contemporary 15 transformations of citizenship as institution, status, and practice as well as normative 16 and explanatory analysis of these transformations and their cultural, social, 17 economic, and political implications. The series bridges theoretical and empirical 18 debates on democracy, transnationalism, and citizenship that have been too 19 insulated from each other. It takes citizenship transitions as its starting point and 20 studies the status, role, and function of citizenship within contemporary democratic 21 systems and multi-layered governance structures beyond the state. It aims to add a 22 broader array of critical, conceptual, normative, and empirical perspectives on the 23 24 borders, territories, and political agents of citizenship. It scrutinizes the possibilities 25 and challenges of citizenship in light of present broad processes of political 26 fragmentation and pluralization and the ways emerging ideals and expectations of 27 citizenship are inspired by new social, political, and environmental movements. 28 Its cross-disciplinary approach intends to capture the transitions of citizenship 29 from an apparently simple relation between the state and its citizens into a cluster 30 of complex responsibility claims and practices that raise questions concerning 31 citizenship borders and obligations, the public-private scope of citizenship, and even 32 how political actors attempt to and in fact avoid citizenship. 33 Titles in the series include: 34 35 Ludvig Beckman and Eva Erman (editors) 36 TERRITORIES OF CITIZENSHIP 37 38 Costica Dumbrava 39 NATIONALITY, CITIZENSHIP AND ETHNO-CULTURAL BELONGING 40 Preferential Membership Policies in Europe 41 Karin Svedberg Helgesson and Ulrika Mörth (editors) 42 THE POLITICAL ROLE OF CORPORATE CITIZENS 43 An Interdisciplinary Approach 44 45 Simon McMahon 46 IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP IN AN ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION 47 The Political Dynamics of Intra-EU Mobility 48 49 50 51 9781137479495_txt.indd 2 6/25/15 3:10 AM 1 Palgrave Studies In Citizenship Transitions series 2 Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–137–33137–3 3 4 You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing 5 order. 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Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the 37 country of origin. 38 39 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 40 41 A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 9781137479495_txt.indd 6 6/25/15 3:10 AM 1 2 3 8 4 5 Multicultural Society Must Be 6 7 Defended? 8 9 Zaki Nahaboo 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Abstract 17 18 This chapter investigates how orientalist citizenship is reinvented through 19 attempts to defne and defend multicultural society in Britain. I begin by 20 21 describing how the normalizing function of ‘state racism’ charted in Michel 22 Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended has been partially recast through the ‘post- 23 racial’, ‘multiculturalist’, and ‘multiculture’ conceptions of multicultural soci- 24 ety. In doing so, this chapter helps us to identify the parameters through which 25 new expressions of orientalist citizenship emerge to sustain contemporary state 26 racism. This is exemplifed in the fgures of citizenship that manifest through 27 28 an ethnic minority wing of the United Kingdom Independence Party, calls in 29 the British media for intercultural dialogue, and the Stop the War Coalition’s 30 response to the War on Terror in the 2000s. Each captures how attempts at sub- 31 verting identitarian life scripts, dichotomous subject positions, and essentialist 32 identities become a means of reinventing orientalist citizenship. I conclude 33 that the co-option of anti-essentialist challenges to orientalist citizenship facili- 34 35 tates a new imperative to state racism: ‘multicultural society must be defended’. 36 37 Introduction 38 39 From the mid-1960s onwards, Britain became increasingly characterized as a 40 multicultural society.1 Yet its referent escapes consensus. The phrase ‘multi- 41 42 cultural society’ is used to denote a political community marked by diversity 43 in faith, ‘race’, nationality, attire, music, cuisine, language, customs, values, 44 and citizenship status. What politicians and media commentators across the 45 mainstream political spectrum tacitly agree upon is the irreversibility of mul- 46 ticultural society.2 As Stuart Hall observes, contemporary Britain ‘can [still] 47 have purges…it can enforce assimilation but it can’t go back to being stable 48 3 49 and steady on its own mono-cultural foundations’. This chapter explores 50 the governmental effects of the naturalization and normalization of multi- 51 cultural society upon orientalist citizenship. 144 9781137479495_txt.indd 144 6/25/15 3:10 AM Multicultural Society Must Be Defended? 145 1 The fgure of the citizen is dominantly understood as having a Western gen- 2 esis. Engin Isin notes that in the ‘occidental tradition’ it is considered a sov- 3 ereign fgure ‘capable of judgment and being judged, transcending his (and 4 much later her) tribal, kinship, and other primordial loyalties and belonging- 5 ness’.4 The orientalist citizen emerges when this fgure is co-constituted with, 6 7 and hierarchically opposed to, ‘oriental’ others who are said to lack these fac- 8 ulties.5 This chapter demonstrates how ‘state racism’, as outlined by Michel 9 Foucault in Society Must Be Defended, continues through ‘post-racial’, multicul- 10 turalist, and ‘multiculture’ conceptions of multicultural society. It investigates 11 how certain attempts to defne and defend multicultural society operate as a 12 13 prism through which otherwise antithetical racist and anti-racist discourses 14 become combined and refracted to facilitate novel expressions of orientalist 15 citizenship.