ANTB20H3 Lecture 6: Week 6 Ong article notes

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Week 6 ong culutural citizenship as subject making: immigrants negotiate racial and cultural boundaries in the united states. 737-this paper views cultural citizenship as a process of self-making and being-made in relation to nation-states and transnational processes. Taking an ethnographic approach, i consider citizenship a cultural process of. subjectification, in the foucaldian sense of self-making and being-made by power relations that produce consent through schemes of surveillance, discipline, control, and administration. Cultural citizenship is a dual process of self-making and being-made within webs of power linked to the nationstate and civil society. 739- neoliberalism is an expression of the biopolitics of the american state as well as setting the normative standards of good citizenship in practice. Increasingly, citizenship is defined as the civic duty of individuals to reduce their burden on society and build up their own human capital-to be entrepreneurs of themselves (gordon.