Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights

by Margaret R. Somers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521793947
• ISBN13: 9780521793940
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"