The ‘Edge Effect’: Unfolding the Phenomenological Potential of Citizenship through Interdisciplinary and Emotion-Based Approaches

Pratesi, Alessandro

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“…In the first memo on care at the beginning of this contribution, I have mentioned several examples of critical theorisations of care, parenthood, intimacy, migration and citizenship providing phenomenological, relational and intersectional understanding of these concepts (Epstein and Carrillo 2014;Fudge 2014;Kershaw 2010;Longman et al 2013;Parreñas 2005;Pratesi 2018;Sevenhuijsen 1998;Yuval-Davis 2007). Far from reproducing a narrative of oppression, social exclusion and victimization, these critical perspectives tend to emphasize the advantages of being outsider inside (Unger 2000) and shed light on the ways in which different types of what I have called elsewhere unequally entitled citizens (Pratesi 2016(Pratesi , 2018a(Pratesi , 2022 can facilitate various forms of micro-situated social inclusion and citizenship based on emotions and foster social change (Albrecht 2016(Albrecht , 2018). Pakulski's (1997) notion of cultural citizenship 2 , underpinning the idea of full and effective inclusion in the culture of a specific society, can be helpful here.…”

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“…The different outcomes (positive or negative) will primarily depend on the ability of these different social actors, of these different types of unequally entitled citizens to channel the potential of their marginal position towards a broader, more flexible and more phenomenologically grounded concept of citizenship and social inclusion (Pratesi 2016(Pratesi , 2018a(Pratesi , 2022. Although extremely diverse, their constituencies should not be seen in competition between them but rather in a sort of coalition for positive social change.…”

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Six Memos for the Current Time. Rethinking six contemporary sociological matters in light of the emotional dynamics shaping them

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2023

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This contribution is inspired by Italo Calvino’s Harvard Lectures which should had been hold at Harvard in 1986 and were never delivered because of Calvino’s sudden and premature death. Calvino began his American lectures with a series of reflections on six qualities that he considered essential for good literature and then broadened his reflections to other (no strictly literary) dimensions of our existence. This article is based on a series of reflections on six sociological subjects that I consider essential to frame the recent pandemic, and then it extends such reflections to other realms of our everyday life. Care, Welfare, Death, Politics, Europe, and Marginality: the common denominator of these different key sociological subject matters is represented by emotions and their too often unacknowledged role in interpreting and explaining contemporary phenomena. They have been chosen as they represent a number of core themes which are considered key to help us demarcating the field of our critical analyses of the pandemic, but also because they epitomise paradigmatic contexts where the political relevance of emotional dynamics vividly emerge. In this sense, the main goal of this contribution is to invite scholars from different disciplinary perspectives to further investigate these key sociological subject matters by taking into account the crucial role of emotions, shedding light on the not so visible links between micro- and macro-levels of analysis and their implications for social change, and broadening our reflections to other (no strictly sociological) dimensions of our existence.

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