Knowing Rights: State Actors' Stories of Power, Identity, and Morality

by Michael C. Musheno and Trish Oberweis

This text explores 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754621235
• ISBN13: 9780754621232
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Length: 226 Pages