Citizenship and vulnerability : disability and issues of social and political engagement / Angharad E. Beckett.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Beckett, Angharad E., 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• People with disabilities--Government policy--Great Britain.
• Citizenship.
• Social movements.
• People with disabilities--Government policy.
• People with disabilities.
• Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

Citizenship and social movements remain key areas of interest for a wide range of social scientists. Angharad Beckett reinterprets current understandings of citizenship and social movements, illuminating important strengths and weaknesses in a number of key theories through a focus on the nature of the disability movement in the U.K. In offering this substantial empirical study. Citizenship and Vulnerability draws on the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, as well as Ellison's ideas about proactive and defensive engagement, and Turner's sociology of the body. It proposes a new model of active citizenship that rests upon an understanding of vulnerable personhood.

Contents:

• Citizenship and vulnerability 1
• Key questions 4
• Practical issues: subject information, data collection and analysis 9
• Key definitions 13
• 2 Citizenship 22
• Ancient and classical theories of citizenship 24
• Modern/social-liberal theories of citizenship 34
• Contemporary accounts of citizenship 46
• Conclusion: future developments? 61
• 3 Social Movements 65
• Phase 1 Theories 67
• The 1960s 'watershed' 73
• Phase 2 Theories 74
• Conclusion: the future for social movement theorizing? 87
• 4 Issues in Disability 90
• Introduction: a brief history of theorizing on disability 90
• Experiencing disability 99
• 5 The Views of Disabled People 118
• Structural issues 118
• Disabling attitudes, empowering identities? 129
• Disability culture 143
• The disability movement 145
• Deafness and disability 153
• 6 Reconsidering Theorizing on Citizenship and Social Movements in the Light of Disability 162
• Social-Liberalist accounts 163
• Pluralist accounts 169
• Beyond the pluralist accounts 179
• Implications for social movement theorizing 183
• The future for citizenship theorizing 192
• Concluding comments: implications for future research and theorizing 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.

ISBN:

1403992363

OCLC:

62326882

Publisher Number:

9781403992369 (cloth)