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

A. Beckett

ISBN 10: 1403992363 / ISBN 13: 9781403992369

Published by Palgrave Macmillan UK Apr 2006, 2006

About this Item

Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Citizenship and Vulnerability : Disability and Issues of Social and Political Engagement
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Apr 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403992363
• ISBN 13: 9781403992369
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

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'.

About the Author

ANGHARAD E. BECKETT is Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, UK.