The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau

By Simon Crhichley
“(…) is politics conceivable without religion? The answer is obviously affirmative as the evidence of various secular political theories testifies. But is politics practicable without religion? That is the question. And that is the question that Rousseau’s thinking of politics faces. Can politics become effective as a way of shaping, motivating and mobilizing [...]

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Let them Eat Social Capital: Socializing the Market versus Marketizing the Social

By Margaret Somers
“We have seen the enemy and it is us. No longer should we blame neoliberalism’s starvation of the public sector and its privatizing restructuring of the economy for escalating rates of poverty, skyrocketing inequality, or the constriction of democracy. No, it is the fault of your and my delinquency in our bowling league [...]

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Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship: Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativity of Signature in Rural Tamil India

By Francis Cody
“But for the women who had come to the office that day from Katrampatti, my sense is that they would only have been satisfied that they had performed the act of petitioning at grievance day if they had been able to see the collector and plead with him orally using generic conventions compelling [...]

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Capitalism and Social Rights

By Ellen Meiksins Wood
“In fact, we could just as easily say that the history of rights has
been a contraction, not an expansion, of political rights — not an
expansion from one set of rights to another but a contraction of
political rights to exclude the social and the economic. Political
rights have certainly expanded in the sense that [...]

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The Withering of Civil Society

By Michael Hardt
Social Text, No. 45 (Winter, 1995), pp. 27-44.
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“Claiming the decline of civil sociey, of course, does not mean that all the mechanisms of rule and organization which characterized civil society no longer exist or function. Similarly, recognizing a passage from disciplinary societies to societies of control does not mean [...]

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The erosion of citizenship

by Bryan S. Turner
British Journal of Sociology Vol. No. 52 Issue No. 2 ( June 2001) pp. 189–209.
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“The Marshallian paradigm of social citizenship has been eroded because the social and economic conditions that supported postwar British welfare consensus have been transformed by economic and technological change. This article argues [...]

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The Citizenist Impasse

By Alain C.
El impasse ciudadanista. Contribución a la crítica del ciudadanismo.
Folletos Etcétera, nº 23, 2001, 48p.
Translated from French version of 2001, by NOTBORED,
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