Market Citizenship : Experiments in Democracy and Globalization
by
Amanda Root
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0761974431
ISBN-13
9780761974437
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint
SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 18th, 2007
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
450 grams
Product Classification:
Social theoryCivil rights & citizenship
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Citizens are caught in a paradox. Voting levels are falling, there are growing feelings of powerlessness, social unfairness and yet citizens are constantly told that they have more choice as well as greater freedom and liberty. This book explains these discrepancies.
Citizens are caught in a paradox. Voting levels are falling, there are growing feelings of powerlessness, social unfairness and yet citizens are constantly told that they have more choice as well as greater freedom and liberty.
This book brilliantly explains these discrepancies. It shows that the new definitions of freedom as responsibility to create prosperity through markets is seriously distorting citizenship whilst appearing to be unbiased and neutral. It exposes inconsistencies in the market-based and apolitical vision of our collective future. This book:
This book brilliantly explains these discrepancies. It shows that the new definitions of freedom as responsibility to create prosperity through markets is seriously distorting citizenship whilst appearing to be unbiased and neutral. It exposes inconsistencies in the market-based and apolitical vision of our collective future. This book:
- outlines how market citizenship involves a new kind of rationality in which citizens are defined as individualized utility maximizers
- shows how the idea that citizens act primarily to develop their narrow self-interest has encouraged the creation of competitive governance mechanisms
- analyses how market mechanisms are used to decide who are ′winners′ and ′losers′ - from the loss of youth groups funding to global treaties
- discussess the shortfalls when key contemporary issues are tackled through ′win-win′ solutions with business working alongside consumers, with little or no role for government
- explaims how localism and the devolution of power is being used to support the status quo.
- suggests new kinds of engagement are emerging because markets have undermined politics.
Essential reading for students, policy-makers and researchers of citizenship within sociology, politics, economics, geography and social policy.
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