Genealogies of citizenship : markets, statelessness, and the right to have rights / Margaret R. Somers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Somers, Margaret R.

Series:

Cambridge cultural social studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Civil rights.

Physical Description:

xix, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Theorizing citizenship rights and statelessness

Citizenship imperiled : how marketization creates social exclusion, statelessness, and rightlessness

Genealogies of Katrina : the unnatural disasters of market fundamentalism, racial exclusion, and statelessness

Citizenship, statelessness, nation, nature, and social exclusion : Arendtian lessons in losing the right to have rights

Historical epistemologies of citizenship : rights, civil society, and the public sphere

Citizenship troubles : genealogies of struggle for the soul of the social

What's political or cultural about political culture and the public sphere? : toward a historical epistemology of concept formation

In search of civil society and democratic citizenship : romancing the market, reviling the state

Let them eat social capital : how marketizing the social turned Solidarity into a bowling team

Fear and loathing of the public sphere : how to unthink a knowledge culture by narrating and denaturalizing Anglo-American citizenship theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-331) and index.

ISBN:

9780521790611

0521790611

9780521793940

0521793947

OCLC:

192045576

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