Janet Newman, Evelien Tonkens

Participation, Responsibility and Choice

Summoning the Active Citizen in Western European Welfare States
Herausgeber: Newman, Janet; Tonkens, Evelien

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9789089642752
• ISBN-10: 9089642757
• Artikelnr.: 32435829

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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