ABSTRACT
The concept of civic stratification, as originally conceived by Lockwood (1996) and as developed in the pages of this volume, amounts to an incipient sociology of rights and as such has the potential to engage and expand a number of related debates. This concluding chapter therefore embarks on a review and elaboration of such linkages, one of which concerns the relationship between citizenship and universal human rights. It therefore covers the cosmopolitan promise and predictions of an emergent post-national society, the significance of governance and judg(e)ment, debate about the relation between rights and recognition, and the concepts of moral economy, bordering and bare life. All are explored and elaborated with reference to the notion of civic stratification, which can play a vital complementary role in illuminating their varied effects and inter-relations.
