Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective
Everyday Citizenship Practice and Its Consequences
Published on 6. March 2024
92 pages
978-1-009-03359-6 (ISBN)
Description
Claim-making - the everyday strategies through which citizens pursue rights fulfilment - is often overlooked in studies of political behavior, which tend to focus on highly visible, pivotal moments: elections, mass protests, high court decisions, legislative decisions. But what of the politics of the everyday? This Element takes up this question, drawing together research from Colombia, South Africa, India, and Mexico. The authors argue that claim-making is a distinct form of citizenship practice characterized by its everyday nature, which is neither fully programmatic nor clientelistic; and which is prevalent in settings marked by gaps between the state's de jure commitments to rights and their de facto realization. Under these conditions, claim making is both meaningful (there are rights to be secured) and necessary (fulfillment is far from guaranteed). Claim-making of this kind is of critical consequence, both materially and politically, with the potential to shape how citizens engage (or disengage) the state.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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4,14 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-009-03359-6 (9781009033596)
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Janice K. Gallagher | Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner | Whitney K. Taylor
Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective
Everyday Citizenship Practice and Its Consequences
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03/2024
Cambridge University Press
€78.00
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Janice K. Gallagher | Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner | Whitney K. Taylor
Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective
Everyday Citizenship Practice and Its Consequences
Book
03/2024
Cambridge University Press
€24.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
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Content
Introduction; Claimants and claim-making; Claim-making conditions; Claim-making consequences; Conclusions and further directions; Works cited.
