Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Obligations, needs, solidarities
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Veitch, Scott |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | We turn now to the role obligations play in contributing to the well-being of individuals and the communities in which they flourish. For as we have noted in a few places earlier in the book obligations also provide a means by which we organise our lives in ways that foster reciprocity, commitment, and trust. In our personal and social lives, as well as through collective practices and institutions, obligations provide direct or mediated ways of sustaining people's potential for communal well-being. Obligations thus have this distinctive, dual quality: they are the expression and means of constraint and limitation which can, as we saw in the previous chapter, sustain modes of undesired control, discipline, and subjection. But they are also the stuff of loyalty, solidarity, and love. In this respect too they have a historical and social continuity that rights lack. If obligations have a more enduring presence and expansive range than rights, it is because rights attach to practices and communal modes of being that are already saturated with obligations. Book Name: Obligations |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2019-0-04034-3&isbn=9780429340796&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429340796-7 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-01-23 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Obligations Cultural Studies Social Continuity Obligations Provide Communal Modes Places Earlier |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
