Governing Affective Citizenship: Denaturalization, Belonging, and Repression by Marie Beauchamps, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow at the School for Politics and International Relations, Q...
Going back to eighteenth-century France and to both World Wars, periods during which governments deployed denaturalisation as a technology against threatening subjects, the analysis exposes how the language of denaturalisation interweaves concerns about immigration and national security. It is this historical backdrop that helps understand the political impact of denaturalisation in contemporary counterterrorism politics, and what is at stake when borders and identities become affective technologies.