Retheorising Statelessness
A Background Theory of Membership in World Politics
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-3995-6567-7 (ISBN)
Description
Applies international political theory to statelessness as an ethical and political concern
Stateless persons are increasingly a concern of governments, international agencies and NGOs. Now, Kelly Staples supplies a much-needed political theorisation of statelessness. Her membership theory framework combines theory and contemporary case studies to demonstrate the connection between state membership, the burdens of statelessness and the situation of stateless persons.
Stateless persons are increasingly a concern of governments, international agencies and NGOs. Now, Kelly Staples supplies a much-needed political theorisation of statelessness. Her membership theory framework combines theory and contemporary case studies to demonstrate the connection between state membership, the burdens of statelessness and the situation of stateless persons.
Reviews / Votes
This book is a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the tensions between citizenship rights and human rights. Staples refuses to identify exclusion from the state with exclusion from the human, and offers a promising alternative to predominant equations of statelessness with 'bare life'. Her argument will be essential reading for all those interested in steering a course between statism and cosmopolitanism in international political theory and international practice. -- Kimberly Hutchings, London School of EconomicsMore details
Series
Edition
New in Paperback
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-6567-7 (9781399565677)
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Kelly Staples is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Manchester in 2008, and is author of 'Statelessness, sentimentality and human rights: A critique of Rorty's liberal human rights culture', published in Philosophy and Social Criticism in 2011.
Content
Introduction
Membership in World Politics
Michael Walzer and the Denial of Membership
Richard Rorty on the Kindness of Strangers
Onora O'Neill: Fixing the Scope of Ethics?
Towards a Background Theory of Membership
Contemporary Statelessness: eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Contemporary Statelessness: the Rohingya
Retheorising Statelessness
Bibliography
Membership in World Politics
Michael Walzer and the Denial of Membership
Richard Rorty on the Kindness of Strangers
Onora O'Neill: Fixing the Scope of Ethics?
Towards a Background Theory of Membership
Contemporary Statelessness: eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Contemporary Statelessness: the Rohingya
Retheorising Statelessness
Bibliography