Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state

This short commentary argues for the utility of a suitably expansive idea of citizenship, one that opens complex terrains for analysis: where citizens work with, against, and alongside the state, and where state power is enabled and sidestepped through multiple embodied processes. I consider the nature of the citizen‐state encounter in each article in AE ’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum to explore local experiences of sovereignty and state power.