This collection offers a postcolonial critique of the ostensible superiority or originality of 'Western' political theory and one of its fundamental concepts, 'citizenship'.

1. Citizenship after orientalism: an unfinished project Engin F. Isin 2. Orientalism, political subjectivity and the birth of citizenship between 1780 and 1830 Jack Harrington 3. Subverting orientalism: political subjectivity in Edmund Burke's India and liberal multiculturalism Zaki Nahaboo 4. The emergence of the other sexual citizen: orientalism and the modernisation of sexuality Leticia Sabsay 5. Orientalising environmental citizenship: climate change, migration and the potentiality of race Andrew Baldwin 6. The creation of Palestinian citizenship under an international mandate: legislation, discourses and practices, 1918-1925 Lauren Banko 7. Chinese citizenship 'after orientalism': academic narratives on internal migrants in China Malgorzata Jakimów 8. Telling tales, performing justice: the political subject of the Hikaya Deena Dajani 9. Mathas, gurus and citizenship: the state and communities in colonial India Aya Ikegame 10. 'The cost of dams': acts of writing as resistance in postcolonial India Alessandra Marino 11. The prerogative of the brave: Hijras and sexual citizenship after orientalism Tara Atluri 12. Transnational spirituality, invented ethnicity and performances of citizenship in Trinidad Gabrielle Jamela Hosein 13. Orientalising citizenship: the legitimation of immigration regimes in the European Union Iker Barbero 14. British-Muslim family law and citizenship Lisa Pilgram 15. The body politic of dissent: the paperless and the indignant Parvati Nair 16. Migrants as activist citizens in Italy: understanding the new cycle of struggles Federico Oliveri 17. Politicizing camps: forging transgressive citizenships in and through transit Kim Rygiel 18. Playing with citizenship: NSK and Janez JanSa S.E. Wilmer 19. The heterogeneous world of the citizen Ranabir Samaddar