Race, Citizenship and Social Order in William Shakespeare’s Othello

Race and ethnicity in Othello

Othello was written at a particular moment in history when the European construction of the ‘other’ was moving from a medieval to a modern paradigm. This involved a shift from religion to race and colour as the key signifiers of difference. In other words, Othello was written at a time when modern racial ideology and racial prejudice as we know them were coming into being but were not yet fully...

Citizenship Identity and Social Inequality

Citizenship identity depends not only on a legal status, but essentially on access to social and economic resources. Thus, citizenship identity, the sense of belonging and solidarity, is necessarily connected with the problem of unequal distribution of resources in society. Modern conception of universal citizenship, specially when it is combined with extreme inequality and poverty, tends to ex...

Social Citizenship and Urban Poverty

The increased visibility of concentrated urban poverty has posed a variety of intellectual and policy challenges in the past decade. The spread of joblessness and economic disinvestment has left many urban neighborhoods in ruins. Fears about the culture and family life of the poor have motivated a variety of responses, including the recent “welfare reform” effort that ended the federal governme...

“I KISSED THEE ERE I KILLED THEE”: PERFORMING RACE AND GENDER IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO AND RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON A Thesis by ALICIA PAGE ANDRZEJEWSKI

Green Citizenship and the Social Economy

Contemporary green political theory has paid little attention to the role that economic organisations can play in the cultivation and expression of green citizenship. This paper argues that the ethos and structure of organisations within the social economy – for example, cooperatives, mutuals and voluntary associations – appear particularly well suited for the development of relevant dispositio...