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To speak in the terms of Jean-Luc Nancy, it is neither politics nor the political which is the topic of my research but rather the space in between – the threshold at which both politics and the political break into each other and the social bond between people can be rearranged. The political agency which emerges at this threshold between politics and the political could be named unruly politics. Unruly politics either neglects or disturbs the domain of consensus-building in legally accepted political institutions.
However, he failed his citizenship test in 2011 because he could not, or refused to, give the right answers to questions which he thought to be very culturally selective and stigmatizing. He publicly criticized the barriers to immigrants and asylumseekers becoming accepted Dutch citizens. “I had to wait nine years in a refugee centre to prove I was a refugee,” Al Galidi is quoted as saying. “And then I get 45 minutes to prove I am a good citizen? 3. Postfoundational thinking In reaction to the excessive preoccupation with the integration of “outsiders,” Willem Schinkel proposes to unmask the confiction of a unitary civil society by placing the concept of society itself between brackets.
In a sense, not only strangers are “convicted” as unwanted outsiders but also those who are portrayed as natural members of a society are “convicted” to support the bond, which sustains their identity. Insiders and outsiders of society thus seem to be convicted to one another. French philosopher Michel Serres (2007) has already emphasized that human relations take the form of the ambiguous relationship between the host and the parasite. This relation is not only abusive but also implies certain forms of exchange.