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Lauren Berlant - The Queen of America Goes to Washington City + Ken Plummer - Intimate Citizenship

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Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essay on Sex and Citizenship, Duke UP, 1997.

Ken Plummer, “Public Intimacies, Private Citizens,” Intimate Citizenship, U of Washington Press, 2003.
Berlant’s book is a quite dense text which assembles various and multiple layers of narratives around politics of identity, queer theory, media and text… »

Mouffe and Balibar on Democratic Citizenship

Chantal Mouffe, “Democratic Citizenship and the Political Community,” The Return of the Political, Verso, 2005 (1993).
Etienne Balibar, “Historical Dilemmas of Democracy and Their Contemporary Relevance for Citizenship,” Rethinking Marxism 20:4 (2008).
As a part of a project to achieve “a radical and plural democracy,” Mouffe tries to articulate how citizenship could and should be constructed as… »