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Dimitry Kochenov

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Julie Ryan

Henry David Thoreau

Noam Chomsky

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Bill Gurley

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McKenzie Wark

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A discussion with the the author of Citizenship (from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), Dimitry Kochenov, in which we discuss the glorification of citizenship and the structures of power underlying this supposedly positive concept. Featuring an incredible new soundtrack produced by artists and author of High Static, Dead Lines (Strange Attractor Press, December 2018) Kristen Gallerneaux.The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world.Kochenov offers a critical introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically, describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about, and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in a state; duties, and what it means to be a “good citizen”; and politics, as enacted in the granting and enjoyment of citizenship.Citizenship promises to apply the attractive ideas of dignity, equality, and human worth—but to strictly separated groups of individuals. Those outside the separation aren't citizens as currently understood, and they do not belong. Citizenship, Kochenov warns, is too often a legal tool that justifies violence, humiliation, and exclusion.

A discussion with the the author of <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/citizenship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Citizenship</a> (from The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series), Dimitry Kochenov, in which we discuss the glorification of citizenship and the structures of power underlying this supposedly positive concept. Featuring an incredible new soundtrack produced by artists and author of <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/high-static-dead-lines" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">High Static, Dead Lines</a> (Strange Attractor Press, December 2018) Kristen Gallerneaux.The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world.Kochenov offers a critical introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically, describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about, and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in a state; duties, and what it means to be a “good citizen”; and politics, as enacted in the granting and enjoyment of citizenship.Citizenship promises to apply the attractive ideas of dignity, equality, and human worth—but to strictly separated groups of individuals. Those outside the separation aren't citizens as currently understood, and they do not belong. Citizenship, Kochenov warns, is too often a legal tool that justifies violence, humiliation, and exclusion.

Citizenship

On 28 February, in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky officially applied for membership of the EU. On 18 April, it was confirmed that Ukraine had completed the membership questionnaire, with President Zelensky expressing his hopes that Ukraine could become a full candidate state ‘in weeks’.  This interview, conducted by Rule of Law section editor Oliver Garner, considers the feasibility of immediate EU accession for Ukraine with Prof. Dimitry Kochenov, Professor in the CEU Legal Studies Department and Lead Researcher in the Democracy Institute Rule of Law work group. Dimitry has recently argued that immediate accession for Ukraine is feasible under the EU Treaties for Verfassungsblog, and in an article co-authored with Ronald Janse for EU Law Live.

On 28 February, in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href="https://euobserver.com/tickers/154455" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">officially applied for membership of the EU</a>. On 18 April, it was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-completes-questionnaire-eu-membership-official-2022-04-18/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">confirmed</a> that Ukraine had completed the membership questionnaire, with President Zelensky expressing his hopes that Ukraine could become a full candidate state ‘in weeks’.  This interview, conducted by Rule of Law section editor Oliver Garner, considers the feasibility of immediate EU accession for Ukraine with <a href="https://people.ceu.edu/dimitry-vladimirovich_kochenov" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prof. Dimitry Kochenov</a>, Professor in the CEU Legal Studies Department and Lead Researcher in the Democracy Institute Rule of Law work group. Dimitry has recently argued that immediate accession for Ukraine is feasible under the EU Treaties for <a href="https://verfassungsblog.de/take-down-the-wall-and-make-russia-pay-for-it/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Verfassungsblog</a>, and in an article co-authored with Ronald Janse for <a href="https://eulawlive.com/op-ed-admitting-ukraine-to-the-eu-article-49-teu-is-the-special-procedure-by-dimitry-kochenov-and-ronald-janse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EU Law Live</a>.

Immediate EU membership for Ukraine? In conversation with Dimitry Kochenov

Many countries and states are considering vaccine passports that would show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to enter certain places and do certain things. While the idea has merit, there are many ethical, legal and social concerns. In this podcast, Dr. Eeks chats with Dimitry Kochenov, "The Passport Professor", about concerns over vaccine passports, including privacy issues; the further stigmatization of marginalized communities; the "immunoprivileged"; what we know and don't know about the science of the vaccines; the potential for the politicalization of vaccines; who will enforce vaccine passports; and personal liberties vs government mandates. Dimitry Kochenov leads the Rule of Law research group at CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest and teaches Global Citizenship at CEU Legal Studies department in Vienna. He's an author, having written the book Citizenship and several scholarly papers, and has been a researcher or professor at numerous universities, including Oxford, Princeton and NYU. He's written or co-authored several papers on vaccine passports, including this one and his latest, The Commission against the Internal Market and EU Citizens Rights: Trying to Shoot down Sputnik with the 'Digital Green Certificate."You can contact Dr. Eeks at bloomingwellness.com.Follow Dr. Eeks on Instagram here.Or Facebook here.Or Twitter.Read Manic Kingdom here.Listen to her short audio parody on the wellness industry here.Subcribe to her newsletter here! Support the show

Many countries and states are considering vaccine passports that would show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to enter certain places and do certain things. While the idea has merit, there are many ethical, legal and social concerns. In this podcast, Dr. Eeks chats with Dimitry Kochenov, "The Passport Professor", about concerns over vaccine passports, including privacy issues; the further stigmatization of marginalized communities; the "immunoprivileged"; what we know and don't know about the science of the vaccines; the potential for the politicalization of vaccines; who will enforce vaccine passports; and personal liberties vs government mandates. Dimitry Kochenov leads the Rule of Law research group at CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest and teaches Global Citizenship at CEU Legal Studies department in Vienna. He's an author, having written the book Citizenship and several scholarly papers, and has been a researcher or professor at numerous universities, including Oxford, Princeton and NYU. He's written or co-authored several papers on vaccine passports, including <a href="https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/WP-2021-153-Gstrein-Kochenov-Zwitter-A-Terrible-Great-Idea-Vaccination-Passports.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this one</a> and his latest, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3826649" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Commission against the Internal Market and EU Citizens Rights: Trying to Shoot down Sputnik with the 'Digital Green Certificate."</a>You can contact Dr. Eeks at <a href="http://www.bloomingwellness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bloomingwellness.com.</a> Follow Dr. Eeks on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/doctoreeks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> here. Or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DoctorEeKs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> here. Or <a href="https://twitter.com/dr_eeks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Manic-Kingdom-Dr-Erin-Stair/dp/198403295X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1660859506&amp;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Manic Kingdom</a> here. Listen to her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Yours-Wellness-Krystal-Heeling-Industry/dp/B089H1T8ZW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=235EQGSEWAMR1&amp;keywords=yours+in+wellness+audiobook+erin+stair&amp;qid=1661112673&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=yours+in+wellness+audiobook+erin+stair%2Cstripbooks%2C132&amp;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">short audio parody on the wellness industry here.</a> Subcribe to her <a href="https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001g00wgP1zErs8eONOWuWhBM1AyRPzLjHX_oT2Pqxub8anrwsCVf5945QIdQgWqDnL_xCoekQ4SYoNyh0d7qbtKFLXWzTjmn1TaF3K7gfrTSLryYwrmJGh75X7MjPVhHhIx0YNx5QWx39YDro3KE_SiNC2ErM5GL-Z" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">newsletter here!</a><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3802154" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a> <a href="https://paypal.me/BloomingWellness?country.x=US&amp;locale.x=en_US" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>

Why Vaccine Passports are a Bad Idea, with Dr. Dimitry Kochenov