Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
What, the editors of this collection ask in their introduction, is the nature of the relationship between cities and the people who inhabit them? And how do the historical situation of cities and their citizens limit the potentiality of new modes of subjectification? These are surely evocative questions, and as the editors remark, increasingly necessary ones, as the city is quickly becoming the organizing principle for global flows (of bodies, capital, law, etc.), but, in the collection that follows, the contributing authors barely scratch the surface of these issues, nor do they properly problematize such latter-day master narratives as the primacy of capitalism, globalization, warfare and the law, let alone citizenship itself. Instead this collection reads as a series of rather disconnected chapters brought together seemingly only by the force of will of the editors. That being said, a number of the chapters are provocative and insightful in their various critiques, however far from the site of the city and the problematics of citizenship they may stray.
Recommended Citation
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew "On Cadava and Levy's Cities Without Citizens." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 5, no. 3, 2025, pp. 1–3.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss3/16