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Aesthetic citizenship is an ethnographic study of the role of theatrical performance in questions regarding immigration, citizenship, and the formation of national identity. Focusing on Paris in the twenty-first century, Emine Fişek analyzes the use of theater by immigrant-rights organizations there and examines the relationship between aesthetic practices and the political personhoods they negotiate. From neighborhood associations and humanitarian alliances to arts organizations both large and small, Fişek traces how theater has emerged as a practice with the perceived capacity to address issues of immigrant rights, integration, and experience. Yet her insightful research also illuminates Paris's broader historical, political, and cultural throughlines that continue to shape the relationship between theater and migration in France. By focusing on how French public discourses on immigration are not only rendered meaningful but also inhabited and modified in the context of activist and arts practice, Aesthetic Citizenship seeks to answer the fundamental question : is theater a representational act or can it also be a transformative one ?

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