Retheorising Statelessness

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A Background Theory of Membership in World Politics

Kelly Staples (Lecturer in International Politics, University of Leicester)

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Edinburgh University Press
30 June 2026

Globalization; Political science & theory; International relations; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship

Series: Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights

Applies international political theory to statelessness as an ethical and political concern Stateless persons are increasingly a concern of governments, international agencies and NGOs. Now, Kelly Staples supplies a much-needed political theorisation of statelessness. Her membership theory framework combines theory and contemporary case studies to demonstrate the connection between state membership, the burdens of statelessness and the situation of stateless persons.

By: Kelly Staples (Lecturer in International Politics University of Leicester)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New in Paperback
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399565677
ISBN 10: 1399565672
Series: Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 30 June 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction Membership in World Politics Michael Walzer and the Denial of Membership Richard Rorty on the Kindness of Strangers Onora O'Neill: Fixing the Scope of Ethics? Towards a Background Theory of Membership Contemporary Statelessness: eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Contemporary Statelessness: the Rohingya Retheorising Statelessness Bibliography

Kelly Staples is Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Manchester in 2008, and is author of 'Statelessness, sentimentality and human rights: A critique of Rorty's liberal human rights culture', published in Philosophy and Social Criticism in 2011.

Reviews for Retheorising Statelessness: A Background Theory of Membership in World Politics

This book is a significant contribution to ongoing debates about the tensions between citizenship rights and human rights. Staples refuses to identify exclusion from the state with exclusion from the human, and offers a promising alternative to predominant equations of statelessness with 'bare life'. Her argument will be essential reading for all those interested in steering a course between statism and cosmopolitanism in international political theory and international practice. -- Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics