ABSTRACT
Enforcing the territorial borders that purportedly sanctify American nationalism, the US-Mexico border walls illustrate the mutually constitutive relationship between the rights, privileges and modes of belonging that comprise 'citizenship' and contemporary realities that are definitively posthuman. This chapter explores recent developments in citizenship studies and considers what they might have to offer to posthumanism. It suggests that theories of citizenship have moved in directions that might be amenable to the posthumanist project. The chapter examines how posthumanists have engaged with issues of citizenship, outlining how posthumanist theory can contribute to debates within citizenship studies over structure, subjectivity and representation. It concludes by returning to the US-Mexico border and asserting that the development of a posthuman theory of citizenship could contribute to radical democratic practice in a space that is in such dire need of alternative political lenses and strategies.
