Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
Cambridge University Press, 7/24/2008
EAN 9780521790611, ISBN10: 0521790611
Hardcover, 362 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Genealogies of Citizenship is a remarkable rethinking of human rights and social justice. As global governance is increasingly driven by market fundamentalism, growing numbers of citizens have become socially excluded and internally stateless. Against this movement to organize society exclusively by market principles, Margaret Somers argues that socially inclusive democratic rights must be counter-balanced by the powers of a social state, a robust public sphere and a relationally-sturdy civil society. Through epistemologies of history and naturalism, contested narratives of social capital, and Hurricane Katrina's racial apartheid, she warns that the growing authority of the market is distorting the non-contractualism of citizenship; rights, inclusion and moral worth are increasingly dependent on contractual market value. In this pathbreaking work, Somers advances an innovative view of rights as public goods rooted in an alliance of public power, political membership, and social practices of equal moral recognition - the right to have rights.
1. Theorizing citizenship rights and statelessness
Part I. Citizenship Imperilled
How Marketization Creates Social Exclusion, Statelessness, and Rightlessness
2. Genealogies of Katrina
the unnatural disasters of market fundamentalism, racial exclusion, and statelessness
3. Citizenship, statelessness, nation, nature, and social exclusion
Arendtian lessons in losing the right to have rights
Part II. Historical Epistemologies of Citizenship
Rights, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere
4. Citizenship troubles
genealogies of struggle for the soul of the social
5. What's political or cultural about political culture and the public sphere? Toward a historical epistemology of concept formation
Part III. In Search of Civil Society and Democratic Citizenship
Romancing the Market, Reviling the State
6. Let them eat social capital
how marketizing the social turned Solidarity into a bowling team
7. Fear and loathing of the public sphere
how to unthink a knowledge culture by narrating and denaturalizing Anglo-American citizenship theory.