{"product_id":"against-citizenship-amy-l-brandzel-9780252081507","title":"Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative","description":"Numerous activists and scholars have appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of \"citizenship.\" \u003ci\u003eAgainst Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e provocatively shows that there is nothing redeemable about citizenship, nothing worth salvaging or sustaining in the name of \"community,\" practice, or belonging. According to Brandzel, citizenship is a violent dehumanizing mechanism that makes the comparative devaluing of human lives seem commonsensical, logical, and even necessary. \u003ci\u003eAgainst Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e argues that whenever we work on behalf of citizenship, whenever we work toward including more types of peoples under its reign, we inevitably reify the violence of citizenship against nonnormative others. \u003cp\u003e Brandzel's focus on three legal case studies--same-sex marriage law, hate crime legislation, and Native Hawaiian sovereignty and racialization--exposes how citizenship confounds and obscures the mutual processes of settler colonialism, racism, sexism, and heterosexism. In this way, Brandzel argues that citizenship requires anti-intersectionality, that is, strategies that deny the mutuality and contingency of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation--and how, oftentimes, progressive left activists and scholars follow suit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned plea for a queer, decolonial, anti-racist coalitional stance against the systemized human de\/valuing and anti-intersectionalities of citizenship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy L. Brandzel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252081501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252081507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016","brand":"Amy L. Brandzel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086449684735,"sku":"9780252081507","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf1173ca-cf2a-45dc-900f-f13a251c3388.jpg?v=1769094739","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/against-citizenship-amy-l-brandzel-9780252081507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}