A political anthropology perspective on the art of crafting survival possibilities through (de)polarizing practices

Anthropological investigations of citizenship offer a wide range of descriptions of various practices of (de)polarization, making manifest the connection between citizenship and a strange multiplicity of political imaginaries that cannot be reduced to statism or, more generally, to a “political ontology of violence”. As such, anthropology of citizenship invites us not to think of politics beyond (de)polarization but, rather, to look—through descriptive and comparative perspectives—at the variety of its practices, along with their specific political imaginaries, and to understand how they constitute the very “ordinariness” of citizenship.