Participation, Responsibility and Choice

Summoning the Active Citizen in Western European Welfare States

AvJanet Newman,Evelien Tonkens

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Responsibility, participation and choice are key policy framings of active citizenship, summoning the citizen to take on new roles in welfare state reform. This volume traces the emergence of new discourses and the ways in which they take up and rework struggles of social movements for greater independence, power and control

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-04-28
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Care & Welfare
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Pallas Publications
ISBN:9789089642752

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Mer om författaren

Janet Newman is professor of social policy and criminology at The Open University, UK. Evelien Tonkens is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements ,1 Introduction, 2 Citizenship and healthcare in Germany, 3 The embrace of responsibility, 4 From social citizenship to active citizenship?, 5 Active citizenship in Norwegian elderly care, 6 Mobilising the active citizen in the UK, 7 Dividing or combining citizens, Just being an ‘active citizen’?, 9 Caring responsibilities, 10 Active citizenship, 11 Active citizens, activist professionals, 12 Towards a feminist politics of active citizenship, About the editors and contributors, Index