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The greening of citizenship, the state and ideology has created both opportunities and bottlenecks for progressive political movements. Scerri argues that these are pursuing justice by making holistic demands for: fair distribution and status recognition, adequate representation and effective participation.

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"""For scholars and students of environmental political theory and citizenship studies, Greening Citizenship offers a productive and insightful approach to understanding contemporary transformations of citizenship and makes a significant contribution to an increasingly diverse field of study."" - Environmental Values ""In a review of dominant political and social theory since T.H. Marshall, Scerri takes inventory of culture, politics, and institutions in Western democracies, in order to conceptualise better a fuller, more productive, and democratic politics of sustainability... The book offers a fresh path through the sea of contemporary critical political and social theory that leads to a better understanding of reasons and means to be constructive as well as critical, hopeful as well as cognisant of multiple and continuing crises."" - Environmental Politics ""Not only does Scerri offer a provocative reformulation of what sustainable citizenship might look like, he also provides an exceptionally thorough account of how Western conceptions of citizenship have evolved and what this evolution has meant for our relationship to the natural world."" - New Political Science"

'It has become common to argue that the ecological devastation and injustices wrought by neoliberalism ought to be countered with a new, greener form of citizenship. But what if current forms of capitalism are more resilient than this argument supposes? Andy Scerri confronts this possibility head-on, laying bare how many of the features of green citizenship are already emergent or even dominant in our neoliberal world, and yet do little to further ecological sustainability or justice. An important contribution to green political theory, Scerri's careful and incisive analysis is both sharply critical and thoroughly pragmatic: grounded in a keen appreciation of contemporary transformations of citizenship and subjectivity, and focused on the goal of strong sustainability. This is an excellent book that deserves a wide audience.' - Andrew Biro, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair Coordinator, Acadia University, Canada

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ANDY SCERRI is Research Fellow at the Global Cities Research Institute and Globalism Research Centre in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia

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