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

Beckett, A.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2006-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349543526

DOI: 10.1057/9780230501294

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 214