How to Be a Citizen: Six Lessons for a Brave New World - Couverture souple

Skach, C.L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526655195 ISBN 13 : 9781526655196

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Drawing on her experience working in some of the most conflict-ravaged parts of the world, a bold new thinker and social scientist argues that a good society is not given to us by rules and the state, but is rather something we must create together.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

C.L. Skach is Emeritus Professor of Law, King's College London and Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna. She was previously a professor at the University of Oxford and Harvard University. She has taught constitutional law and government, conducted ethnographic and archival research and held visiting professorships on five continents. She divides her time between Oxford and Bologna.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighbours to one another?

C.L. Skach feels differently. She always believed in the strength of the law - she spent her career in some of the most fractured, war-torn corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions to help fix society. But as she sat alone in a sandbagged trailer in Baghdad after a rocket attack, she admitted what she'd been denying for years: a good society cannot be imposed from above. It comes from leaning less on formal rules, and more on each other.

Skach lays out six ideas, informed by everything from civil wars to civil rights struggles, bystander responsibility to mutual aid in the pandemic, to help us build small societies of our own. These ideas sometimes sound simple: share the vegetables from your garden, spend time on a park bench. But taken together they can amount to real, bottom-up change.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526655195
• ISBN 13: 9781526655196
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas