Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Citizenship is always in dispute – in practice as well as in theory – but conventional perspectives do not address why the concept of citizenship is so contentious. This unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute.The authors dispute the way citizenship is normally conceived and analysed within the social sciences, developing a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle. This view is advanced through an exploration of the entanglements of politics, culture and power that are both embodied and contested in forms and practices of citizenship.
This compelling view of citizenship emerges from the international and interdisciplinary collaboration of the four authors, drawing on the diverse disputes over citizenship in their countries of origin (Brazil, France, the UK and the US). The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the field of citizenship, no matter what their geographical, political or academic location.
This collection focuses on the relationship between social care, community and citizenship, linking them in a way relevant to both policy and practice. It explores key concepts, policies, issues and relationships and draws on contrasting illustrations from England and Scotland. The authors examine the ethics of care exploring the theoretical and moral complexities for both those receiving and those delivering care. The book also incorporates practice-based chapters on anti-social behaviour, domestic violence, community capacity to care, black and minority ethnic care, volunteering, befriending and home care and provides international comparisons and perspectives with chapters from Sweden, Germany and Japan.
61 PART II Constitutional Citizenship Unpacked In a classic contribution to understanding citizenship, Verena Stolcke (1997, 61) argued that: Of the three constitutive elements of the modern state, a territory, a government, a people, circumscribing the “people” proved to be the most controversial issue…. A territory without a people, a government without a clearly bounded community to be governed, makes no sense. Hence, bounding the citizenry, that is determining the conditions for becoming a member of a state, acquired a logic of its own as a
FOUR Citizenship I’m not lost for I know where I am. But, however, where I am may be lost. (A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926) Introduction For some people, citizenship is little more than a logo on the front of a passport or a dropdown box on a form. It is possible to go through the whole of life without really thinking about what it means to be ‘British’ or ‘Irish’, let alone what it is to be a European Union (EU) citizen. Indeed, about 19% of Northern Ireland’s population have no passport (The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 2012, p 16
9 Citizenship TWO Citizenship This study is based on the premise that information is necessary to exercise the social rights of citizenship. A lack of information, or ‘information poverty’, can result in a lack of access to (and denial of) those rights. This chapter provides the theoretical framework of this book. It argues that citizenship provides a valuable underlying concept for exploring the questions addressed here. It questions the nature of citizenship, the rights and responsibilities of both the state and its citizens, and explores the implications
213 TEN Citizenship Hartley Dean Introduction Central to any discussion of the changing role of the State in relation to welfare provision is the concept of citizenship, both as a status attributed to individual members of society and as a social practice involving participation and governance. Citizenship is a fundamentally contested concept that has lately re-emerged as a subject of political discourse and academic inquiry. Prior to the 1992 General Election, Britain’s main political parties vied with each other to establish different visions of a ‘citizen
This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and explores their experiences of international mobility. It is set within the context of ‘Citizenship of the Union’.
Senior citizenship? draws on substantial primary research material to:
combine detailed analysis of the framework of EU rights shaping social with in-depth qualitative interviews involving retired migrants across six member states (Greece, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland);
describe and evaluate an innovative approach to comparative enquiry that combines biographical interviews with legal and qualitative analysis;
highlight the diverse nature of retirement migration encompassing the experiences of returning workers, migrating retirees and post retirement returnees.
Topics are explored thematically in the context of comparative social policy, raising important and topical issues around the future of social citizenship and the implications of the exercise of agency, in an increasingly global and mobile world.
The principles of the modern foundational economy and its role in renewing citizenship and informing public policy are explored for the first time in this instructive collection.
Challenging mainstream social and economic thinking, it shows how foundational economy experiments at different scales can foster radical social innovation through collective, rather than private, consumption.
An interdisciplinary group of respected European academics provide case studies of initiatives and interventions around policy cornerstones including housing, food supply and water and waste management. They build a judicious evidence base of the growing relevance of foundational economic thinking and its potential to provide a new political and social outlook on civil society and social justice.
253 Key words volunteering • citizenship • service • policy making © The Policy Press • 2010 • ISSN 2040 8056 po lic y Recent developments in volunteering and citizenship Alan Strickland Policy makers have recently sought to use volunteering as a vehicle to develop citizenship, and to offer elements of citizenship as a reward to develop volunteering. Policy proposals have focused on developing citizenship among young people and regard the emergence of volunteering as a form of currency, able to secure access to social goods and to repay social ills
