The dimension of 'nature' implicit in current practices of and discourses regarding citizenship

My talk will take a closer look at the dimension of ‚nature‘ implicit in current practices of and discourses regarding citizenship. After briefly summarizing my theoretical and conceptual angle, I will focus on current usages of ‚citizen‘ and ‚citizenship‘ in what we might clumsily label ‚populist‘ movements in Europe, especially in Germany. Thus, my talk will reconstruct empirical dynamics that, as I suggest, generate new notions of citizenship-as-practice, charging them with specific affects such as ‚concern‘ and ‚anger‘. Interestingly, these dynamics often evolve around exactly the shifting ‚nature‘ of gender and sexuality. Hence, my talk will focus on how post-essentialist notions of gender and sexuality seem to trigger so far tacit notions of ‚nature‘ within citizenship. Finally, I will discuss the risks of all too populist notions of citizenship in recent scholarly work