About Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

The term European citizenship triggers an immediate association with the European Union, its member states, and people who are citizens of those states. This unit develops another way of thinking about European citizenship whereby European citizenship need not be granted by the state, limited to the territory within the EU borders or acted out by people who are already citizens. By the end of this unit you will: be familiar with the most recent scholarship on European citizenship and in particular with the concepts of 'acts of citizenship and 'activist citizenship able to explain why European citizenship is said to be 'derivative citizenship discuss the limits around thinking of citizenship as a status, and of thinking of citizenship from the perspective of those who already hold it have gained an understanding of how citizenship can be seen differently by asking 'how do people do citizenship? rather than 'who is the citizen? be able to elaborate on the ways in which those who do not hold EU citizenship can act as a European citizen be able to identify the importance of mobilisation, contestation and claims to rights to the ways in which citizenship is negotiated 'on the ground.