The introduction reflects on citizenship’s epistemological fragilities and the problems these pose for a range of political theories that assume a coherent nation-state and its idealized, and ideological, boundaries between insiders and outsiders. In reviewing the micropractices of citizenship in question the authors of the twelve chapters in this volume describe, the introduction theorizes the significance of governments worldwide being incapable of discerning who is and who is not a citizen. Jacqueline Stevens proposes that the recognition of governments’ inability to reliably assign citizenship requires a new interpretation of the concept. Rather than assume citizenship as a self-evident legal identity, the introduction proposes scholars reconceive citizenship as an administrative practice that entails archives, identity cards, laws, sovereign boundaries, and a wide range of interpretive practices that produce arbitrary outcomes that confuse us and are inconsistent with idiomatic meanings of citizenship as determinate, logical, and verifiable.
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