The incompleteness of rights-bearing citizenship: Political obligation and renationalization

Abstract

A full picture of the making of new rights-bearing subjects requires theorizing the political obligations as well as entitlements of citizenship. These must be specified lest the enumeration of political obligations be left to extreme nationalists and advocates of racial, ethnic, gender, and cultural exclusion. The worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression has led many nation-states to re-regulate their national economies and decouple them from the global economy. New terms of engagement and combinations of political rights and duties are likely to follow from nations' turn to looking out for themselves in the uncharted waters of the global meltdown.

Citation

Smith, M.P. (2009), "The incompleteness of rights-bearing citizenship: Political obligation and renationalization", Davis, D.E. and Go, J. (Ed.) Political Power and Social Theory (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 275-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-8719(2009)0000020015