Marie Beauchamps is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow at the School for Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London.

• IntroductionPart I: The Foreigner of the French RevolutionChapter 1: The French Revolution: A Producer of Narratives about CitizenshipChapter 2: Becoming Foreign 1: The Nation as Space Susceptible to IntrusionChapter 3: Becoming Foreign 2: The Nation and Its Affective EconomiesChapter 4: Becoming Foreign 3: The Nation and Its Juridical CommunityPart II: Denaturalization in Times of War: Modeling the Self, Creating the OtherChapter 5: From Belonging to Repression: Denaturalization and WWIChapter 6: Denaturalization in the Context of WWII: Expanding Denaturalization before the WarChapter 7: Denaturalization in the Context of WWII: France’s Totalitarian InfectionPart III: Terrorism, Nationality and Citizenship: France and BeyondChapter 8: Of the Link between the War against Terrorism and DenaturalizationChapter 9: The 21st Century Struggles over DenaturalizationConclusionBibliography

Marie Beauchamps has written a most timely book on denaturalisation. Using a set of cases spread throughout French history, she highlights both the recurrence of state actors making citizens foreign and the political and identitarian stakes involved. It is a frightening genealogy showing that citizenship is never to be taken for granted and is easily considered to be a privilege rather than a right by those with governmental power. Her book also makes a major contribution to security studies through its conceptually innovative analysis of how emotional economies of insecurity play out in political situations. It makes a great case for the importance of the archival study of citizenship practices and the political enactment of emotions to understand key aspects of the contemporary politics of insecurity.