Democracy and the Foreigner

“Friendship is threatened when one becomes ‘the wrong kind of friend’, as happens when friendship as usefulness clashes with friendship based in virtue or pleasure (Honig 2001: 53–54).”

“In other words, citizenship is a form of belonging that implies an exclusivity of membership (Honig 2001).”

“She gambles on Israel (Honig, 2001: 71).”

“4 See Honig (2001).”

“In both cases, Honig (2001) theorises community through the inability to know the other.”

“As Bonnie Honig (2001) argues, we need to understand how social tensions are scripted: “Girard’s scapegoat theory is valuable to an analysis of the politics of foreignness because it presses us to attend to the politics of foreignness—the cultural symbolic organization of a social crisis into a resolution-producing co…”

“refugees also functions to support a state’s social system (Honig 2001).”

“As Bonnie Honig notes: ‘The problem with Kristeva is ( . . . ) her failure to explore the transitional properties of veiling while managing nonetheless to see the transitional possibilities of the nation’ (Honig, 2001: 66).”

“…procedures necessary to legitimize the posterior ones (Benhabib, 2004: 15–19, 2006: 35; Dahl, 1983: 204; Habermas, 1998: 115–116, 2001: 774; Honig, 2001, 2007; Mouffe, 2000, 2005: 8–34; Nagel, 2005: 128, 145–147; Näsström, 2003: 808, 2007: 627–630; Offe, 1998: 115–116; Rousseau, 2002…”

“As a foreign language encounters a native one, tensions arise between them, which lead to the classic response that foreignness is a threat to the stability and identity of established regimes, as it plays the role of re-founder for the community (Honig, 2001).”

“Rather than claiming their right to desire, migrants enact it through their unauthorised presence (Honig, 2001).”

“(Honig, 2001: 2–3; Blommaert et al., 2012).”

“Here Honig’s work (Honig 1994, 2001) offers a productive intervention because it investigates how affects untie the unity of community.”

“To have such ceremonies at regular intervals therefore serves to reinvigorate that myth and thereby to legitimize state power (Byrne, 2017; Honig, 2001, p. 75).”

“of integration processes where the illicit “taking” of rights is sometimes prudent or even necessary to participate (Honig, 2001).”

“…enrich and amend accounts of sovereignty and migration that either relativize its durability and territorial reach or favor textual reconstructions that disavows sover-eignty ’ s material operation and the violence entailed in the construction of the brown migrant subject (Brown 2010; Honig 2001).”

“With reference to Honig (2001), Fortier (2017) argues that a ff ective governance is fundamental to the state-citizen relationship.”

“To this extent, the community must continually negotiate its delimitations of externality in relation to its foundation as new processes of expression are adopted within its boundaries (Honig, 2009)— a”

“First, uncertainty as a mode of neoliberal governance constitutes a social intervention that reaches into ‘the fabric and depth’ of society as a whole (Foucault, 2008: 145) and embeds the conditionality of citizenship into popular consciousness (Bhattacharyya, 2015; Honig, 2001).”

“Differences in approach notwithstanding, liberal and radical thinkers were equally delineating models for political participation that remained highly intellectualized, and, against their will nonetheless, exclusivist, and, to cite McNay (2014), “weightless” (see also, Dean 2009: 77-8; Glover 2014: 95; Honig 2001).”

“In her book, Democracy and the Foreigner, Honig (2001) switched the question from ‘how should we solve the problem of foreignness’ to ‘what problems does foreignness solve for us?’”

“Attachment and detachment are both key components of the social contract, and that opens up the question of what we take with us when we leave, and of what it means to be incorporated (Honig 2001).”

“While most migrant populations are considered foreign (Honig 2001; Thobani 2007), the admission of certain populations over others is justified through discourses of deserv-edness.”

“Critical commentators of Rousseau have pointed out that this constructive intervention of the legislator does not necessarily yield an ideal outcome (e.g., Connolly 2004; Honig 2001; Villa 2017).”

“…by focusing on the freedom that makes the expression of desires possible’, thereby sustaining potentially disruptive political action in which, in Bonnie Honig’s terms, ‘the basic terms of political life and the identity of the community are renegotiated’ (Honig 2003 cited in Hoover 2019: 256).”

“Bonnie Honig thus writes that “the practice of taking rights and privileges rather than waiting for them to be granted by a sovereign power is…a quintessentially democratic practice” (Honig, 2001, p. 99).”

“If the ideological script that has legitimated “the DREAMers” has reinvigorated the classic xenophilic impulses of US nationalism (Honig, 1998, 2001; cf. De Genova, 2005: 56–94), therefore, that same discourse’s intransigent proclivity for disqualifying the predicaments of other illegalized…”

“In part two, I explore agonistic critiques; in particular, the work of political theorist Bonnie Honig (1993, 2001, 2007, 2017).”

“For Honig, Smith thereby sanitizes all liberalism without interrogating the exclusionary assumptions that mark both its Lockean and American variants (Honig 2003, 12).”

“But, for Rosenzweig, as Stéphane Mosès argues, the recent geopolitical cataclysms of Europe had already judged – and decisively condemned – Hegel.9 The Star thus sets about reversing every aspect of the theory of historical necessity that, in Rosenzweig’s view, is complicit in state-formation and the civilisational…”

“A este respeito, as preocupações legalistas dessas lutas permaneceram suscetíveis à hegemônica xenofilia, na frase esclarecedora de Bonnie Honig (1998, 2001), que motiva os discursos nacionalistas liberais norte-americanos de “imigração” (cf. De Genova, 2005, pp. 56-94).”

“The boundary problem deals explicitly with justifying the basis upon which a legitimate democratic people (demos) consisting of equals can be identified and affirmed (cf. Honig 2001).”

“…de los efectos positivos de la inmigración en términos económicos (la mencionada reductio ad oeconomiam) o de las nuevas energías aportadas a la sociedad de acogida supone juzgar a los inmigrantes a partir únicamente de su contribución al bienestar del país que los recibe (Honig 2001, 46 y 99).”