Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility

by Hagar Kotef

Book Overview

We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Ordering of Freedom , Hagar Kotef examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces. Ranging from the writings of Locke, Hobbes, and Mill...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358557
• ISBN13: 9780822358558
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.8"