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

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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�...

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Main Author: Beckett, Angharad E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Political Science.
Social Policy.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social work.
Sociology, general.
Equality.
Political science.
Social policy.
Social sciences.
Social service.
Social structure.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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'.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 214 pages)
ISBN:9780230501294
DOI:10.1057/9780230501294