Engin F. Isin is Professor of International Politics at the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. He was director (2007-2009) of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (UK) and is the author of Cities Without Citizens (1992), Citizenship and Identity with Patricia Wood (1999) and Being Political (2002).

States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements. But how does such power persist in a global world where people, ideas, and products constantly cross the borders of what the states see as their sovereign territory?
This groundbreaking work sets to examine and interprets such challenges to offer a new way of thinking about citizenship. Abandoning the sovereignty principle, it develops a new image of citizenship using the connectedness principle. To do so, it interprets acts of citizenship by following "activist citizens" across the world through case studies, from Wikileaks and the Gaza flotilla to China's virtual world and Darfur.
Written by a leader in the field, this accessible and original work imagines citizens without frontiers as a politics without community and belonging, inclusion without exclusion, where the frontier becomes a form of otherness that citizens erase or create. This unique work brings forth a new and creative way to approach citizenship beyond boundaries that will appeal to anyone studying citizenship, social movements, and migration.

Preface Chapter 1: Of those whose acts traverse frontiers
Act 1: Of treason: WikiLeaks
Act 2: Of rage: Rachel Corrie
Act 3: Of disobedience: conscientious or civil? Chapter 2: 'We, the people'
Act 4: Of defense: Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
Act 5: Of censoring: the Golden Shield Project
Act 6: Of espionage: Stuxnet
Act 7: Of assassination: drones
Act 8: Of writing: Banksy
Act 9: Of solidarity: Strangers into Citizens
Chapter 3: 'We, the connected'
Act 10: Of identification: We are all Khaled Said
Act 11: Of hacking: LulzSec
Act 12: Of defiance: No One Is Illegal
Act 13: Of staging: Climate Camp
Chapter 4: Enacting citizenship
Act 14: Of speech: Waging Peace
Act 15: Of fury: Mariyam Manike Chapter 5: Citizens without frontiers
Act 16: Of declaration: 'We, the Roma Nation'
Act 17: Of resistance: International Solidarity Movement
Act 18: Of sharing: Open Rights Group Chapter 6: Emancipating (acts of) citizenship
Act 19: Of enfranchisement: If the World Could Vote
Act 20: Of music: Barenboim without words Bibliography Index