Diminished Citizenship: A Genealogy of the Development of 'Soft Citizenship' at the Intersection of US Mass and Political Culture

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dc.contributor.advisorAlbanese, Denise
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Jennifer Lynn
dc.creatorMiller, Jennifer Lynn
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-18T01:53:14Z
dc.date.available2014-09-18T01:53:14Z
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.description.abstractMy thesis is influenced by such scholars as Lee Edelman, Shane Phelan, and Lauren Berlant, who sit at the intersection of queer theory and citizenship studies, my project undertakes a genealogy of contemporary citizenship subjectivity and practice in the United States. I designate my object "soft citizenship," to separate it from citizenship as defined by the state through civic and electoral practices, and to define a mode of thinking and performing politics characterized by familial-based moralization, child-centricity, sentimentality, and politicized consumption. My use of genealogy is indebted to Michel Foucault and enables a materialist understanding of cultural phenomenon as effects of social forces; for example, my project reveals the process by which the nation began to be imagined through the trope of the heteronormative family, a practice still prevalent today, which reflects the child-centricity and familial-based moralization I attribute to soft citizenship.
dc.format.extent238 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/8857
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2014 Jennifer Lynn Miller
dc.subjectAmerican studies
dc.subjectWomen's studies
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectCensorship
dc.subjectCitizenship
dc.subjectFilm
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectNation building
dc.subjectSexuality
dc.titleDiminished Citizenship: A Genealogy of the Development of 'Soft Citizenship' at the Intersection of US Mass and Political Culture
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineCultural Studies
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral

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