Chris Armstrong

Rethinking equality

The challenge of equal citizenship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Accessible and comprehensive, "Rethinking Equality" provides a clear, critical and very up-to-date account of the most important contemporary egalitarian theories. Unusually, it also relates these theories to contemporary political practice, assessing them in relation to the impact of neoliberalism on contemporary welfare states, and the shift from "social" to "active" forms of citizenship. As well as representing a significant intervention within academic debates on equality and citizenship, this book represents essential reading for students of contemporary political theory.

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Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Rethinking Equality provides a clear, critical and very up-to-date account of the most important contemporary egalitarian theories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780719069253
• ISBN-10: 0719069254
• Artikelnr.: 22030559

Autorenporträt

Sailor and librarian, navigator and researcher, teacher and trainer, and-always-a traveller: Chris Armstrong has had three careers, working as a merchant seaman, a farmhand on the farm where he still lives, and as an information scientist before retiring to become a poet and writer. He has one collection of poems in print, Mostly Welsh (Y Lolfa, 2019). Although initially entirely focussed on poetry, his writing has branched into short stories and works of fiction including this volume, The Dark Trilogy. He has published elsewhere: in Storgy, Agenda and London Grip New Poetry for example. Although born in Sussex, he has lived in a cottage in the mountains of Mid Wales most of his life.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part one - A critique of liberal equality 1. The troubled life
of social citizenship: Rawls on equality 2. Equality, risk and
responsibility: Dworkin on the insurance market 3. Equality versus social
inclusion? Part two - Alternatives: equality and citizenship 4. Equality
and responsibility: towards a more critical union? 5. Opportunities,
outcomes and democratic citizenship: Young and Phillips on equality 6.
Equalities: recognition, redistribution and citizenship 7. Equality and
citizenship in global context Conclusion