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The concept of environmental citizenship is employed as an analytical tool to determine what kind of climate citizenship(s) the citizen-directed material in the European Commission's climate change campaign is constructing. The research material is read, analysed and interpreted through elements attached to environmental citizenship: the realm of activity, political space, depth of activity, level of activity, citizen virtues, citizen rights and responsibilities and conception of the environment. The results suggest that climate citizenship is considered mainly as a private sphere activity performed by individuals and consists mainly in small adjustments in daily life. Climate citizens are motivated to everyday-life mitigation by personal benefit, greenhouse gas emissions and preserving natural resources.

This paper examines how and why a deliberate enactment of the state got out of control. It does so by outlining three phases of border management in Tusheti, a highland province of post-Soviet Georgia. In the first phase, control was directly exercised by the local population. At the same time, border transgression for economic and political purposes was encouraged. A second phase of border management was triggered by the Chechen war in the mid-1990s. In order to discredit claims that Chechen "terrorists" were hiding in Georgian territory, the Georgian government, monitored by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, effectively brought border transgression to a standstill. Finally, a third phase was initiated by a mission of the Georgian Orthodox Church sent to Tusheti with the aim of "spiritual fortification". In the end, despite their courageous civic engagement, the locals had fewer entitlements than before. In order to explain what went wrong, I reflect on the downside of performing and incorporating the state and elaborate three different models of citizenship enacted by the key players in each distinct period. Finally, I argue for a temporalisation and hence deconstruction of the notion of "post-socialism". Adapted from the source document.

This paper first describes the influence that environmentalism and ecologism have had upon thinking about citizenship before, second, moving on to discuss conventional models of citizenship and potential models of Green citizenship. The discussion focuses on the competing moral discourses that inform our understanding of citizenship and concludes by arguing in favour of an eco‐socialist citizenship model that would embrace, on the one hand, an ethic of co‐responsibility by which collectively to achieve the just distribution of scarce resources and, on the other, an ethic of care through which to negotiate the basis for human interdependency.

Selfie Citizenship -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Prologue -- 1 Inject/ed: Self(ie) Determination -- 2 Introduction: Whose Selfie Citizenship? -- Note -- References -- Conversation I Acts of Selfie Citizenship -- 3 Performing Citizenship: Freedom March Selfies by Pakistani Instagrammers -- Freedom March -- Selfies: A Citizen Right and a Dialogical Gesture -- #azadimarch: Friends, Women and Family -- Notes -- References -- 4 V-Day Selfies in Beijing: Media Events and User Practices as Micro-Acts of Citizenship -- From Square to Screen -- Major Events, Micro-Media -- Media Practices as Micro-Acts of Citizenship -- References -- 5 Selfies for/of Nepal: Acts of Global Citizenship and Bearing Witness -- Introduction -- Repositioning the Selfie as a Political Act -- Bearing Witness to Catastrophe in the Digital Age -- Selfies for Nepal: Acts of the 'Good' Global Citizen -- Selfies of Nepal: Acts of the 'Bad' Global Citizen -- Conclusion: The Good, the Bad and the Selfie -- References -- 6 Youth's Civic Awareness Through Selfies: Fun Performances in the Logic of 'Connective Actions' -- 'Connective Actions' in Favour of 'Social and Media' Citizenship -- When Social and Media Citizenship Becomes 'Actualised' by Non-Profit Organisations -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 The People: The #Selfie's Urform -- References -- Conversation II The Selfie Genre and Its New Adaptations -- 8 Performative Intimacies and Political Celebritisation -- Celebrity Politics on Instagram -- Three Styles of Celebrity Performances -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 9 Vote for My Selfie: Politician Selfies as Charismatic Engagement -- Media Climate in Singapore -- Digital Presence -- Strategic Selfies -- Charismatic Engagement -- Reactions -- Vote for My Selfie -- References -- 10 Biometric Citizens: Adapting Our Selfies to Machine Vision

Mutations in citizenship are crystallized in an ever-shifting landscape shaped by the flows of markets, technologies, and populations. We are moving beyond the citizenship-versus-statelessness model. First, the elements of citizenship (rights, entitlements, etc.) are becoming disarticulated from each other, and becoming re-articulated with universalizing criteria of neoliberalism and human rights. Such 'global assemblages' define zones of political entitlements and claims. Second, the space of the 'assemblage', rather than the national terrain, becomes the site for political mobilizations by diverse groups in motion. Three contrasting configurations are presented. In the EU zone, unregulated markets and migrant flows challenge liberal citizenship. In Asian zones, foreigners who display self-enterprising savoire faire gain rights and benefits of citizenship. In camps of the disenfranchised or displaced, sheer survival becomes the ground for political claims. Thus, particular constellations shape specific problems and resolutions to questions of contemporary living, further disarticulating and deterritorializing aspects of citizenship.