| Citizenship: Personal Lives and Social Policy Contributor(s): Lewis, Gail (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1861345216 ISBN-13: 9781861345219 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2004 Annotation: This book considers ideas and meaning connected with citizenship in order to problematize and broaden understandings of the term. The aim is to move away from the association of citizenship with rights and obligations within nation states and to explore issues that highlight the transnational and sub-national aspects of citizenship. This includes some of the ways in which a multi-national Britain re-articulates the notion of citizenship. The dynamics of citizenship are explored through discussion of rights and claims, belongings, recognition and practices of everyday life which, in turn, will be used to consider New Labour and citizenship. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Social Science |
| Dewey: 323.609 |
| LCCN: 2004484445 |
| Series: Personal Lives and Social Policy |
| Physical Information: 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Citizenship: Personal Lives and Social Policy adds a new dimension to the citizenship literature by using citizenship as a lens through which to explore the relation between personal lives and social policy. This book focuses on the following domains to consider some of the dimensions of the lived practices and experiences of citizenship: the 'high moment' of working-class citizenship that was embodied in the post-war welfare state; the conflicts and anxieties experienced by children and parents in the transition to secondary school and the struggle of refugees and asylum seekers to gain right of residence in the UK and the possibility of building a new life. The authors draw upon a range of theoretical perspectives, including feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist, to explore what citizenship can tell us about the ways in which personal lives not only are shaped by social policy, but can become the site from which some of the exclusions embedded in social policy and welfare practice are contested. |
