The journal is founded on the premise that citizenship cannot be adequately understood as a fixed legal status. Rather, it is approached as a dynamic process, continuously produced through cultural practice, social imagination, and acts of agency that unfold in everyday life. In a contemporary context marked by fatigue, fragmentation, and the rise of cosmetic culture, CITIZENSHIP IN PRACTICE responds to the urgent need to rethink how citizenship is enacted, negotiated, and transformed beyond normative frameworks.
Published on an ad hoc basis online, as new encounters emerge by THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY and edited by Georgia Kotretsos, the journal positions culture as a primary site in which agency is exercised and public imagination takes form.
In this inaugural issue we meet with Alix Collingwood and follow her impactful career path: she is currently Head of Engagement at Redhills, Durham Miners’ Hall. Her practice is shaped by intentional positioning, presence, commitment, and memory, where caring and purposeful decisions continuously renew the relationship between past and present. We meet Alix in Durham, in the northeast of the United Kingdom, where her deliberate decision to return to the region offers a situated and compelling entry point into the journal’s broader inquiry.
ΤΕΛΟΣ is committed to learning from the Greek periphery yet, it now pushes beyond its immediate terrain: as CIP: CA&PI is not geographically bound but composed of constellations of peripheries.