Knowing Rights: State Actors' Stories of Power, Identity and Morality (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Oberweis, Trish

 
9781138722767: Knowing Rights: State Actors' Stories of Power, Identity and Morality (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138722766 ISBN 13: 9781138722767
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This book breaks new ground in interpreting how identity informs the judgements of State workers, as normative orientations coincide with identities and authority. At all levels, legal ordering becomes entangled with moral orientations and the micropolitics of identification, as workers interact with one another and their clients. The result is neither law nor order, but a fragile cultural politics of workers acting on citizens as they act out their identities. Using case studies in the field, the book conducts an exploration of the State, whilst holding on to the strong notions of identity, power and normative orientation. It introduces a unique notion of rights by arguing that workers assert identity and power as they make judgements about who gets what from the State.

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Trish Oberweis, Michael Musheno

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138722766
ISBN 13 
9781138722767
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
132

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9781138722774: Revival: Knowing Rights (2001): State Actors' Stories of Power, Identity and Morality (Routledge Revivals)

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