Introduktion

My PhD project departs from a critique of both cosmopolitan and multicultural approaches to citizenship theory. It is argued that neither of these perspectives is capable of articulating the non-citizen more than in terms of a negation or a lack. Further, both multicultural and cosmopolitan citizenship theory is understood to remain caught in identitarian principles as grounds for inclusion in the political community; either through the emphasis on common identities of minority groups, or through not recognising that cosmopolitanism itself is grounded in a particular notion of the universal. Equal access to the political community thus appears as channelled through a politics of identity, exposing equality to the risk of being conflated with sameness. This is perceived as problematic since the criteria for the assumed sameness lay outside of the political subject, in for example the nation or humanity. Also, sameness constitutes a closure of possible belongings and ascriptions and proposes thereby a reductionist conceptualisation of the political community.

In an attempt to decouple equality from sameness and to reconsider the political subjectification of the non-included, the thesis proceeds to engage in a normative discussion on inclusion, crossing of boundaries and political action. This is pursued through discussions on the bounded territory, the bounded community, and the political subject. Seeking alternative interpretations of these areas in dialogue with theorists like Rancière, Heidegger, Honig and Nancy, the thesis aims to rethink political subjectification, boundaries and the political community in terms of multiplicity, reconfiguration, encounters and emergence.

 

Forskning

 

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Jonna Pettersson har författat artikeln Rethinking political subjectification: equality beyond a community of sameness som nyligen publicerats i tidskriften Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory Läs mer...

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Undervisning

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Nedan visas de kurser där Jonna Pettersson undervisat, och som finns inlagda i institutionens databas

vt 2013: STVA12 - Statsvetenskaplig introduktion
ht 2012: STVA12 - Statsvetenskaplig introduktion
ht 2012: STVA22 - Politisk teori i praktiken
vt 2012: STVA21 - Politisk teori i praktiken
ht 2011: STVA11 - Statsvetenskaplig introduktion
ht 2011: STVN06 - Transnationalism, Migration and Politics of Diaspora
vt 2011: STVA11 - Statsvetenskaplig introduktion