Citizenship: Theories and Contemporary Concerns

Course Type	Course Code	No. Of Credits
Discipline Elective	NA	4

Course Coordinator and Team : Dr. Pooja Satyogi

Email of the coarse coordinator : psatyogi[at]aud[dot]ac[dot]in

Pre-requisites: None

Does the course connect to, build on or overlap with any other courses offered in AUD?

The course is offered as an elective for new BA programmes coordinated by SLGC and SGA.

Specific requirements on the part of students who can be admitted to this course:

(Pre requisites; prior knowledge level; any others – please specify) No requirement

No. of students to be admitted (with justification if lower than usual cohort size is proposed):

Maximum 50.

Course scheduling: (summer/winter course; semester-long course; half-semester course; workshop mode; seminar mode; any other – please specify)

Semester-long course

Proposed date of launch:

Monsoon 2019

How does the course link with the vision of AUD and the specific programme(s) where it is being offered?

The course will be offered to BA First year students as part of the elective basket from SLGC. It introduces the students to the dynamism of citizenship, social justice and welfare, which form the basis of the principles on which AUD itself has been founded. These themes connect with the larger questions of law and governance, which are the principles on which the School of Law, Governance and Citizenship was established at AUD.

Course Details:

Summary This course will involve a theorisation of the key debates on citizenship. It is propelled by the still unfolding concern around citizenship in India. It introduces students to an understanding of how citizenship works simultaneously towards inclusion and exclusion in the contemporary world. The modules delineate historical development of the concept, Indian debates on citizenship and end with what citizenship means in a context of globalisation.
Objectives This course will teach students key historical and contemporary debates on citizenship. It seeks to instil in students an egalitarian spirit of participation in democracy and uphold principles of equality and social justice.
Expected Learning Outcomes

To understand the historical evolution of citizenship
To connect questions of citizenship with larger debates on immigration, claims of refugee status, statelessness
To understand the importance of citizenship duties for the future of democracy
To instil an egalitarian and democratic spirit in students0

1. Overall structure (course organisation, rationale of organisation; outline of each module):
1. 1. Module 1: What is Citizenship, who are the citizens and why does it matter?

What is citizenship?
What renders citizenship different from other forms of belonging
Why must we study citizenship?

1. 1. Module 2: Models of Citizenship: Forms and Histories

Forms of membership in Classical Times
Marshall’s theory of citizenship
Marxist critique of liberal citizenship
Civic Republican models of citizenship
Multiculturalism and Differentiated Citizenship

1. 1. Module 3: Citizenship in India: Debates and Controversies

Citizenship debates in the Indian Constitution
Migrants and Refugees in India
Forms of citizens’ mobilisations since 2004
Caste and the question of citizenship
Indian Feminism and Citizenship
NRC and Citizenship

1. 1. Module 4: The non-citizen, the Global citizen and amid increasing securitization

Global citizenship: Does it exist?
Statelessness and Homelessness: What does it mean to be a refugee in contemporary times?

1. Contents: (week wise plan with readings):

First Module (Weeks 1-2)

Bellamy, Richard. 2008. Citizenship: A very short introduction, pp: 1-27. Oxford University Press
Isin, Engin F. and Peter Nyers. 2014. “Introduction: Globalizing citizenship studies.” In Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, pp. 1-12. Routledge
O'byrne, D.J., 2004. The dimensions of global citizenship: Political identity beyond the nation-state, pp: 1-26. Routledge

Second Module (Weeks 3-6)

Republican Citizenship: The Ancient world

J.G.A. Pocock, “The Ideal of Citizenship since Classical Times,” p. 29-40

Citizenship and the Nation State: Liberalism, Civic Republican, Marxist and Communitarian Models

Bellamy, Richard. 2008. “Theories of Citizenship”. In Citizenship: A very short introduction, pp- 27-52. Oxford University Press
Hall, Stuart, and David Held. 1989. “Citizens and citizenship.” New times: The changing face of politics in the 1990s, pp. 173-88.
Heater, Derek. What is citizenship?. John Wiley & Sons, 2013, Chapters 1 and 2
Held, David. 2000. “Citizenship and Autonomy”. In Political Theory and the Modern State. Polity Press.
Mahajan, Gurpreet. The multicultural path: Issues of diversity and discrimination in democracy. SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited, 2002.

Third Module ( Weeks 7-10)

Jayal, Niraja Gopal. 2014. “Indian citizenship: A Century of Disagreement.” Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, pp. 397-406. Routledge
Chimni, B. S. 2005. “Outside the Bounds of Citizenship: The Status of Aliens, Illegal Migrants and Refugees in India.” Rajeev Bhargava and Helmut Reifeld (eds.) Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship, pp. 277-313. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Guru, Gopal. 2005. “Citizenship in exile: A Dalit case.” Rajiv Bhargava and Helmut Reifeld (eds.), Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship: Dialogues and Perspectives, pp. 260-276. New Delhi: Sage
Rodrigues, Valerian. 2005. “Citizenship and the Indian constitution.” Rajiv Bhargava and Helmut Reifeld (eds.) Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship: Dialogues and Perceptions, pp. 209-235. New Delhi: Sage
Roy, Anupama. 2016. “Becoming Citizens”. In Citizenship in India, pp 155-199. Oxford University Press 155-199
Chandoke, Neera. “Transcending Categories: The Private, the Public, and the Search for Home.” In Gurpreet Mahajan (ed.) The Public and the Private: Issues of Democratic Citizenship, pp. 181-204. Sage Publications.https://www.livemint.com/Politics/q9a4WgZptGXE64r8jghD0L/Explainer-What-is-National-Register-of-Citizens-NRC-of-As.html https://thewire.in/rights/the-spectre-of-statelessness-in-india https://thewire.in/law/nrc-supreme-court-crisis https://www.livemint.com/Politics/8s04csNIIp4FDDhKoMGPcP/Why-citizenship-amendment-bill-has-created-a-row.html

Fourth Module (Weeks 11-12)

Bauman, Zygmunt. 2013. Liquid times: Living in an age of uncertainty. John Wiley & Sons, 2013, Chapter 3: State, Democracy and the Management of Fears (55-70)
Cheesman, Nick. 2017. “How in Myanmar “National Races” came to surpass citizenship and exclude Rohingya.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 47, no. 3: 461-483.
Heater, Derek. What is citizenship?. John Wiley & Sons, 2013, 4^th Chapter: Multiple Citizenship
Kyaw, Nyi Nyi. 2017. “Unpacking the presumed statelessness of Rohingyas.” Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 15, no. 3: 269-286.
Nail, Thomas., 2015. The figure of the migrant. Stanford University Press: 1-21
O'byrne, D.J., 2004. The dimensions of global citizenship: Political identity beyond the nation-state. Routledge, Chapter 2

Pedagogy:

Instructional design The course will be a combination of lectures, thematic discussions and presentations.
Special needs (facilities, requirements in terms of software, studio, lab, clinic, library, classroom/others instructional space; any other – please specify) None
Expertise in AUD faculty or outside The core faculty has academic training in the field of Political Science and Cultural Anthropology.
Linkages with external agencies (e.g., with field-based organizations, hospital; any others) None