Paula Hildebrandt et al (eds.) - Performing Citizenship: Bodies, Agencies, Limitations

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New forms of citizenship are developing in the cities of the twenty-first century: self-organized and often independent from the state, they negotiate and shape how we live together.

The graduate programme Performing Citizenship explored new articulations of citizenship, starting from the gap between traditional institutions and a self-confident new citizenry. It combined cultural studies from various disciplinary backgrounds with art-based methodologies and hands-on experimentation in public space .

Performing CitizenshipBodies, Agencies, Limitations provides insights into our research projects complemented by contributions from an international conference hosted by (the organizers of the programme and) editors of this book in November 2016 in Hamburg. The contributing chapters cover a wide range of academic disciplines, from urban planning, postcolonial studies, philosophy, cultural anthropology, to pedagogy and media studies. Based on a conceptual and methodological framework, they discuss conflicts, tensions and potentialities of doing things with rights. Addressing all kinds of cultural, social and political phenomena body optimization , corruption , gentrification , global logistics , migration and welcome culturewe claim that a performative take on citizenship offers a fresh and productive look at questions of identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities.

The book as well as the three-year research programme would not have been possible without the generous funding of the Landesforschungsfrderung Hamburg, the people working behind the scene, namely the HafenCity University Hamburg, the K3Centre for Dance and Choreography, the Hamburg School of Applied Science and the Fundus Theatre Hamburg. Last but not least, we would like to thank Alice Lagaay for her enthusiasm in considering this volume for the Performance Philosophy Series and, most notably, Jules Bradbury for her careful and diligent editorial work.