University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons GSE Faculty Research Graduate School of Education November 2005 Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization Ritty Lukose
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/gse_pubs Recommended Citation Lukose, R. (2005). Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/gse_pubs/56 Reprinted in Cultural Anthropology, Volume 20, Issue 4, pages 506-533. Copyright 2005 by the Regents of the University of California/American Anthropological Association. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the Regents of the University of California/on behalf of the American Anthropological Association for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified eef via Rightslink® on AnthroSource (http://www.anthrosource.net) or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/gse_pubs/56 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization Abstract Globalization is often indexed by the rise of a consumerist ethos and the expansion of the market economy at the expense of state-centric formulations of politics and citizenship. This article explores the politics and practices of gendered democratic citizenship in an educational setting when that setting is newly reconfigured as a commodity under neoliberal privatization efforts.