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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819832403321

Titolo

Participation, responsibility and choice : summoning the active citizen in Western European welfare states / / edited by Janet Newman, Evelien Tonkens [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2011

ISBN

90-485-1343-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Care & welfare

Disciplina

361.61094

Soggetti

Welfare state - Europe, Western - History - 21st century

Politics and culture - Europe - Citizen participation

Europe, Western Social policy Citizen participation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Faced with budget problems and an aging population, European governments in recent years have begun reconsidering the structure and extent of the welfare state. Guarantees and directives have given



way to responsibilities and choice. This volume analyzes the effect of this change on the citizens of Germany, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. It traces the emergence of new discourses around social movements for greater independence, power, and control, and the way these discourses serve to reframe the struggle at hand. Making use of ethnographic research and policy analysis, the authors analyze the cultural transition, tensions, and trajectory of this call toward active citizenship.