How might new analytical frameworks better capture emerging civic realities?

Moving beyond 'normal science', participants will explore citizenship not only as a legal-political status, but as lived practices, relationships, and claims, often originating 'from the outside', including among long-resident non-citizens.

The workshop will engage questions of integration, rights-making, and membership. We will also consider the impact of polarisation, authoritarianism, geopolitical conflict, and large-scale migration. Presentations are conceived as short, focused pitches, 10–12 minutes each, designed to surface what current scholarship may fail to explain, and to help set a new agenda for the study of citizenship.

In this workshop, we will also explore the development of an embryonic Citizenship Lab. Discussions will extend to the audience, engaging participants in this critical debate for democracy, politics, civic society, and international politics.

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