| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Series |
Care & welfare |
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Care & welfare.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Janet Newman and Evelien Tonkens -- Citizenship and health care in Germany : patchy activation and constrained choices / Ellen Kuhlmann -- The embrace of responsibility : citizenship and governance of social care in the Netherlands / Evelien Tonkens -- From social citizenship to active citizenship? : tensions between policies and practices in Finnish elderly care / Anneli Anttonen and Liisa Häikiö -- Active citizenship in Norwegian elderly care : from activation to consumer activism / Mia Vabø -- Mobilising the active citizen in the UK : tensions, silences and erasures / Janet Newman -- Dividing or combining citizens : the politics of active citizenship in Italy / Ota de Leonardis -- Just being an "active citizen"? : categorisation processes and meanings of citizenship in France / Catherine Neveu -- Active citizenship : responsibility, choice and participation / Janet Newman and Evelien Tonkens -- Active citizens, activist professionals : the citizenship of new professionals / Janet Newman and Evelien Tonkens -- Towards a feminist politics of active citizenship / Janet Newman and Evelien Tonkens |
| Summary |
"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. It explores the changing cultural and political inflections of active citizenship in Germany, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Italy and the UK, with ethnographic research complementing policy analysis. The editors then look across the volume to assess some of the tensions and contradictions arising in the turn to active citizenship. Two final chapters address the reworking of citizen/professional relationships and the remaking of public, private and personal responsibilities, with a particular focus on the contribution of feminist research and theory."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Welfare state -- Europe, Western -- History -- 21st century
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Politics and culture -- Europe -- Citizen participation
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative Politics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Society.
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Social policy -- Citizen participation
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Welfare state
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Western -- Social policy -- Citizen participation
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| Subject |
Europe
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Western Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Newman, Janet, 1945-
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Tonkens, Evelina Hendrika, 1961-
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| ISBN |
904851343X |
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9789048513437 |
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