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Informationen zum Autor Margaret R. Somers is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Michigan. A leading figure in historical, political, economic, and cultural sociology and social theory, she recently received the Inaugural Lewis A. Coser Award for Innovation and Theoretical Agenda-Setting in Sociology. Klappentext This book is an ambitious intertwining of multidisciplinary themes about citizenship, social recognition and rights. Zusammenfassung This book is an ambitious intertwining of multidisciplinary themes about citizenship! social exclusion! statelessness! civil society! knowledge! the public sphere! networks and narrativity. Margaret Somers offers a fundamental rethinking of democracy! freedom! rights and social justice in today's world. This is political! economic and cultural sociology and social theory at its best. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
