Participation, Responsibility and Choice
Title
Participation, Responsibility and Choice
Subtitle
Summoning the Active Citizen in Western European Welfare States
Price
€ 54,95 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789089642752
Format
Paperback
Number of pages
244
Language
English
Publication date
Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 cm

Janet Newman, Evelien Tonkens (eds)

Participation, Responsibility and Choice

Summoning the Active Citizen in Western European Welfare States

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.
Editors

Janet Newman

Janet Newman is professor of social policy and criminology at The Open University, UK.

Evelien Tonkens

Evelien Tonkens is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam.