Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Mendieta, Eduardo | Casey, Edward | O'Byrne, Anne | MartÃn Alcoff, Linda.
Date
2014-12-01
Keywords
Philosophy | Cosmopolitanism, Democracy, Foreignness, Sovereignty
Department
Department of Philosophy.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76613
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Today's unprecedented levels of human migration present urgent challenges to traditional conceptualizations of national identity, nation-state sovereignty, and democratic citizenship. The instrumental valorization or vilification of foreignness for nationalistic ends has long-determined who is to be included within or excluded from " the people" of the democratic state. Against this instrumentalization, I argue that foreignness is an originary and constitutive element of democratic political identity which severs the links among nationality, citizenship, and democratic rights. Accordingly, a re-conceptualization of democratic rights is required that reflects the structural necessity of foreignness to democratic political identity. | 225 pages
Recommended Citation
Epstein, Jeffrey Harry, "Democracy and Its Others" (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2503.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2503