Global Citizenship in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

In this paper, I use the established readings of Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalistas a political allegory of contemporary international relations to formulate an inquiry into the notion of citizenship. Taking my cue from Aihwa Ong’s work on “flexible citizenship,” which stresses the...

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Main Author:	Adnan Mahmutovic
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Bath Spa University 2016-05-01
Series:	Transnational Literature
Subjects:	Citizenship Globalisation Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Online Access:	http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/2328/36082/1/bitstream

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spelling	doaj-4bff91c0a35640cdad6bf39b041869582021-03-02T09:34:38ZengBath Spa UniversityTransnational Literature1836-48452016-05-01822328/36082/1Global Citizenship in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant FundamentalistAdnan MahmutovicIn this paper, I use the established readings of Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalistas a political allegory of contemporary international relations to formulate an inquiry into the notion of citizenship. Taking my cue from Aihwa Ong’s work on “flexible citizenship,” which stresses the way global capital calls for disrespect of national borders and laws, I look at the way Hamid’s novelistic imagination problematises the conflict between economic, political, and social citizenships and how it looks forward to the emergence of a new understandings of citizenship as something defined in terms of global rights and duties.http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/2328/36082/1/bitstreamCitizenshipGlobalisationMohsin HamidThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
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title	Global Citizenship in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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series	Transnational Literature
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description	In this paper, I use the established readings of Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalistas a political allegory of contemporary international relations to formulate an inquiry into the notion of citizenship. Taking my cue from Aihwa Ong’s work on “flexible citizenship,” which stresses the way global capital calls for disrespect of national borders and laws, I look at the way Hamid’s novelistic imagination problematises the conflict between economic, political, and social citizenships and how it looks forward to the emergence of a new understandings of citizenship as something defined in terms of global rights and duties.
topic	Citizenship Globalisation Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Global Citizenship in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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