Afterword: aesthetic citizenship and Necropolitics

This Afterword to the special issue on 'Aesthetic Citizenship, Beauty Politics, and the State' seeks to conceptualise further some key themes raised by its authors. The editors (Kukuczka and Liebelt, this volume) forward an understanding of citizenship as a complex aesthetic formation that...

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Published in:Citizenship studies 2024-01, Vol.28 (1), p.118-128
Main Author: Jha, Meeta Rani
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aesthetic citizenship
Aesthetics
affective and intimate publics
Biopolitics
biopower
body multiple and relationality
Citizens
Citizenship
Embodiment
Governmentality
necropolitics
neoliberal governmentality
Neoliberalism
Noncitizens
State power
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Summary:This Afterword to the special issue on 'Aesthetic Citizenship, Beauty Politics, and the State' seeks to conceptualise further some key themes raised by its authors. The editors (Kukuczka and Liebelt, this volume) forward an understanding of citizenship as a complex aesthetic formation that combines embodiment practices, affective solidarities, and state power as a form of (neoliberal) governmentality that citizens internalise. In exploring the significance of aesthetic citizenship, I utilise Mbembe's idea of necropolitics to understand aesthetic labour, affective solidarity, and biopower from the embodied perspectives of marginal citizens and noncitizens discussed in these articles.
ISSN:1362-1025
1469-3593
DOI:10.1080/13621025.2024.2363624