About the Creator

Jacqueline Stevens is the author of Reproducing the State (Princeton, 1999). Reproducing the State shows the history of states since antiquity basing citizenship on birth and kinship relations. She is working on its sequel States without Nations, a book that argues the principled and practical reasons for eliminating all birth entitlements, especially those of citizenship. agoraXchange comes out of the work on States without Nations. She is an Associate Professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara and lives in Los Angeles. agoraXchange began when she was teaching political theory at Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey. For more information, see www.jacquelinestevens.org.