Citizenship and Vulnerability: Disability and Issues of Social and Political Engagement

Citizenship and Vulnerability: Disability and Issues of Social and Political Engagement
ISBN-10
023050129X
ISBN-13
9780230501294
Category
Political Science
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2006-04-04
Publisher
Springer
Author
À. Beckett

Description

Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and Turner's 'sociology of the body', Beckett proposes a new model of 'active' citizenship that rests upon an understanding of 'vulnerable personhood'.

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