Engaging Authority - Citizenship and Political Community (Hardcover)

Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community aims to explore how authority is entailed in different versions of citizenship and political community. Who or what claims authority in the name of "a people," and to what effect? What kind and scope of authority is claimed? And who is held to be part of such a community? Such questions have long been asked by scholars across many disciplines. Engaging Authority brings together scholars from anthropology, constitutional studies, cultural studies, politics, political theory, sociology, and philosophy in a collaborative project to develop a multifaceted understanding of citizenship in political community. The volume begins with the premise that to describe or identify oneself as a citizen entails a particular relationship to authority. Citizens are understood to be members of a community which we consider "political" in that members are invoked, and may also be involved, in the business of governing. How does this relationship function? How is community invoked by those exercising authority, and in what senses do citizens partake in its exercise? In this volume, the authors explore different forms of the citizen's relationship to authority in political community, across and beyond the variations that usually concern scholars, such as the self-governing people, nation-states, popular sovereignty, and democratic citizenship.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics
Release date:	2022
Editors:	Trevor Stack • Rose Luminiello
Dimensions:	229 x 160 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-1-5381-5910-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship
LSN:	1-5381-5910-4
Barcode:	9781538159101

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