~There are a number of persons who have been central to the completion of this book. I especially want to mention Jens Bartelson and Sofia Näsström for their insightful comments and difficult questions. A number of persons have read and commented on various versions and parts...

~From discussions on democracy to attempts to widen the scope for citizenship beyond the confines of the nation-state, Western thinking of the political community has continued to assume the community as requiring some form of unity or unifying principle that serves as delineation.~

~It is now time to explore ways in which the sameness of community or what is shared amongst political beings are potentially extended or envisioned as more inclusive of those formally not included. It was suggested in the introduction that the very issue of statelessness was symptomatic...

~The previous chapter suggested that by confessing to equality, democratic theorists give way to a notion of the politics as structured around boundaries. Thus, seeking to address the paradox of politics, that is, the paradox of a legitimate demos that should be both the source...

~The previous two chapters have shown how statelessness as a symptom of modern politics is symptomatic of how boundaries animate the meaning of the political and of the political community. Boundaries were seen to mark out membership, determined on the basis of a particular...

~The first part of this book saw attempts to expand the community end up in forever new externalities. The thinking of political community and its possibilities was seen to hinge on identity. Thereby, the way the political community is imagined tied into the...

~The previous chapter explored the meaning of incalculable space and place as a difference that escapes identity. It was seen how incalculable space appears to undo the hold calculability, mapping, and sameness have on space and interrupt the image of bounded territories and space as...

~This book has circled around the problem of assuming a notion of sameness that presupposes difference as the condition of possibility for the community. It has argued that as long as the community is envisioned as predicated on a notion of sameness that presupposes...

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Engin Isin is Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP). He is a leading scholar of citizenship studies and is a Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies. He is author and editor of eleven books in the field, including ‘Being Political’ and ‘Citizens Without Frontiers’. This...