Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe maps the generation and growth of novel forms of belonging in the years after World War II, crisscrossing the continent from Madrid to Warsaw and from Athens to London. Even as Europe struggled to rebuild, new forms of identity, statehood, and citizenship were beginning to take shape. In these decades, citizenship was reimagined in unusual settings and unexpected ways by ordinary citizens, living in democratic and authoritarian regimes alike, who struggled to forge new kinds of belonging through which to assert their human rights and dignity. Collecting the work of fifteen scholars, Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe contends that if we are to grapple with fraying citizenship in the twenty-first century, we must first look to when, how, and why citizenship originated in the calamitous years after World War II.

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Samuel Clowes Huneke is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. He is the author of States of Liberation and A Queer Theory of the State.

Rachel Chin is a Lecturer in War Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of War of Words.

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