Constructing Subservience: Theorizing Citizenship Under State-Sanctioned Violence

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Brief Overview

This paper discusses the implications of securitization practices on citizenship outcomes when a democratic state sanctions violence against individuals it identifies as citizens and uses its agents of security to inflict such violence.

Author

• Abhimanyu Rajshekar-Falconer, University of California-Irvine