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This chapter lays out a perspective on the research project that produced the 12 chapters presented in this book. How to perform political theory after the postcolonial critique, and in doing so contribute to the decentring of Euro-American political theory, is a question that troubles many scholars today. This chapter argues that a performative political theory must not only attend to the origins but also the workings of institutions by studying how both political theorists and political theories are embedded in them. The book is a response to the question of how to perform political theory by taking one essential institution — citizenship — and focusing on its workings.
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Isin, E.F. (2015). Transforming Political Theory. In: Isin, E. (eds) Citizenship after Orientalism. Palgrave Studies in Citizenship Transitions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137479501_1
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