DescriptionThis thesis is a methodological evaluation of thequestion–or problem –of citizenship that explores this concept’s limits,the consequences of citizenship’s overextension,and the potential of analternative question of action for political inquiry. Through thisprocess, the thesis intervenes within citizenship studies’dominant theoretical concerns with the everyday and the constitutive other, asserting that they both maintain the citizen as the defining term of the political. It argues that this conceptualization of politics is produced by the question of citizenship, and is expressed in its assumptions of separation that reduce political action to citizenship.In contrast, aquestion of action provides an alternative engagement with politics by limiting the concept of citizenship itself to avoid defining the political and action through this term.The conclusion briefly explores posing a question of action and enumerates some potential research avenues for its actualization.