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Engin F Isin is professor in politics and international studies and director of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University.

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Citizens without frontiersCreative Commons Image By Sokwanele - Zimbabwe via Flickr under Creative Commons license

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University)

15 February 2012

There's a widening gap between those who ignore national borders, and those constrained by them. Engin Isin explains what this might mean.  Read more : Citizens without frontiers

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Do you know who you are? Perspectives Featuring: audio, By Flogal via Dreamstime under subscription

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University), Jacqueline Stevens (Guest)

11 December 2010

In a roundtable discussion about citizenship, our experts discuss nationality from an activism point of view, and a theoretical standpoint.   Read more : Do you know who you are? Perspectives

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Do you know who you are? Introduction Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Ruth Barnett (Guest), Professor Engin Isin (The Open University), Moazzam Begg (Guest)

11 December 2010

You may think you have a right to your nationality and that the state will protect you, however, we hear from Ruth Barnett, a Jewish...  Read more : Do you know who you are? Introduction

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A footballer's worthBy gordonflood.com via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University)

29 June 2009

Engin Isin asks why some footballers are 'special' and worthy of substantial salaries  Read more : A footballer's worth

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The Cycles of NeurosisCreative Commons Image squacco under CC-BY-NC licence

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University)

04 May 2009

Engin Isin asks whether society is encouraged to overreact to certain events.  Read more : The Cycles of Neurosis

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Shaking off of burdens: the credit crunch and poetic justicePhotos.com

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University)

10 February 2009

Engin Isin draws parallels between the credit crunch today, and the one in Ancient Greece  Read more : Shaking off of burdens: the credit crunch and poetic justice

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Off the Road?Creative Commons Image me'nthedogs under CC-BY licence

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University)

24 December 2008

Writing a time when the US car industry was on its knees, Engin Isin argued that the impact of the automobile has been to change...  Read more : Off the Road?

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War lands home: homeland debts & creditsCreative Commons Image Army.mil, some rights reserved

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University)

24 October 2008

Can we blame the recession on the cost of the war on terror? Engin Isin considers how they are related  Read more : War lands home: homeland debts & credits

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Death in the age of the InternetCopyrighted Image Photos.com

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University)

19 August 2008

We all lead digital lives now - but does that online archive of our doings mean we'll also have a digital afterlife?  Read more : Death in the age of the Internet

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Şehrin KeyfiEngin Isin

By Professor Engin Isin (The Open University)

12 June 2008

Engin Isin takes us to the banks of the Bosphorus and Istanbul, a city of longing and joy.  Read more : Şehrin Keyfi

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Research [10]

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Isin, Engin (2012). Citizens Without Frontiers. London: Continuum (forthcoming).

Isin, Engin F. (2012). Citizens without nations. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30(1), (in press).

Isin, Engin (2011). Ottoman waqfs as acts of citizenship. In: Ghazaleh, Pascale ed. Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, pp. 253–279.

Ișin, Engin F. (2010). The soul of a city: hüzün, keyif, longing. In: Göktürk, Deniz; Soysal, Levent and Türeli, Ipek eds. Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? Planning, history and environment series. Abingdon, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge, pp. 35–47.

Isin, Engin F.; Nyers, Peter and Turner, Bryan S. (2009). The thinking citizenship series. Citizenship Studies, 13(1), pp. 1–2.

Isin, Engin F. (2009). La ville comme lieu du social. Rue Descartes(63), pp. 52–62.

Isin, Engin F. (2009). Citizenship in flux: the figure of the activist citizen. Subjectivity, 29 pp. 367–388.

Isin, Engin F. and Turner, Bryan S. (2009). Citizenship, cosmopolitanism and human rights. In: Elliott, Anthony ed. The Routledge Companion to Social Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 173–187.

Isin, Engin F. ed. (2008). Recasting the Social in Citizenship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Isin, Engin F. (2008). The city as the site of the social. In: Isin, Engin F. ed. Recasting the Social in Citizenship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 261–280.

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Death in the age of the Internet

Comment posted by zz866456

20 Dec 2011

Nice article! I really like how you said 'The ways and means of leaving traces are unequal but always present.' This is so true. We are the first generation to have such a large digital life and our... Read more : Death in the age of the Internet

Death in the age of the Internet

Comment posted by logic_cube

24 Feb 2009

This is a very good article. I’m also thinking that instead of “passive” traces that people leave like pictures, videos, etc, they may create “active” traces. For example, I’m thinking... Read more : Death in the age of the Internet

Death in the age of the Internet

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24 Feb 2009

logic_cube has started a thread discussing Death in the age of the Internet. Read more : Death in the age of the Internet

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