The Margins of Citizenship
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 2013
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-415-53137-5 (ISBN)
Description
Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who members of the polity owe special attention. The injustices suffered by immigrants, disabled people, the economically inactive and others have been extensively catalogued, but their disadvantages have generally been conceptualised in social and/or economic terms, less commonly in terms of their status as members of the polity and hardly ever together, as a group. This volume seeks to investigate the partial citizenship which these groups share and in doing so to reflect upon civic marginalisation as a distinct kind of normative wrong. For example it is not often considered that children, though their lack of civic and political rights are marginal citizens and thus has something in common with the groups above. Each of the book's chapters explores some theoretical or practical aspect of marginal citizenship, and the volume as a whole engages with pressing debates in law and political theory, such as the limits of democratic inclusion and the character of social justice, as well as political questions such as the integration of migrants, the enfranchisement of prisoners and the labour rights of children.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-53137-5 (9780415531375)
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Persons
Philip Cook is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester, UK.
Jonathan Seglow is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Jonathan Seglow is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Content
1. Introduction: Debating Marginal Citizenship Philip Cook and Jonathan Seglow 2. Citizenship and the Marginalities of Migrants David Owen 3. Marginal Citizenship and Slavery Linda Bosniak 4. Forced Labour, Slavery, and Citizenship Virginia Mantouvalou 5. Luck Egalitarianism, Disability, and Democratic Citizenship Cynthia Stark 6. Citizenship and Disability: Incommensurable Lives and the Promotion of Agency and Well-Being' Steven Smith 7. Against Marginal Child-Citizenship: Reciprocity, Vulnerability, and Civic Standing Philip Cook 8. Can Prisoners Have Rights of Citizens in a Democracy? Peter Ramsay 9. Theorising Marginal Citizenship Jonathan Seglow