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Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe

Editat de Shana Cohen, Christina Fuhr, Jan-Jonathan Bock
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 oct 2018
Exploring secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the UK, this book provides new ways of thinking about social and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective and State responsibility.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781447331063
ISBN-10: 1447331060
Pagini: 314
Ilustrații: 1 line drawing
Dimensiuni: 159 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
One Introduction: social activism, belonging and citizenship in a period of crisis
Shana Cohen and Jan-Jonathan Bock
Part I: The social consequences of welfare policy
Two Fulfilling basic human needs: the welfare state after Beveridge
Patrick Diamond
Three Social division and resentment in the aftermath of the economic slump
Gabriella Elgenius
Part II: The practice of social good
Four Austerity and social welfare in the UK: a perspective from the advice sector
Amardeep Bansil
Five Breaking the hold of debt: Cambridge Money Advice Centre
John Morris
Six Community finance: the emergence of credit unions in London
Paul A Jones and Michelle Howlin
Seven Finding employment and living a good life in London
Chris Price
Eight The Tafel and food poverty in Germany
Sabine Werth
Nine Addressing food poverty in the UK
Sarah Greenwood
Ten Helping the homeless: a soup kitchen in London
Martin Stone
Part III: Social change and neoliberalism
Eleven Social initiatives and social solidarity under austerity
Christina Fuhr
Twelve The new economy of poverty
Stefan Selke
Thirteen Challenges for the struggle against austerity in Britain and Europe
Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Part IV: Situating solidarity in perspective
Fourteen Individualism and community in historical perspective
Jon Lawrence
Fifteen Aiming for reconnection: responsible citizenship
Christopher Baker
Sixteen Conclusion: citizenship, community and solidarity at the end of the welfare state
Jan-Jonathan Bock and Shana Cohen
Index
 

Recenzii

"This timely volume engages scholars of citizenship, social activists and those concerned for the future of social democracy in Europe."

Notă biografică

Shana Cohen is Deputy Director of the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, UK and Associate Researcher with the Sociology Department, University of Cambridge. She is leading on a comparative analysis of local responses to austerity in Europe. Christina Fuhr has a PhD in Sociology from Oxford University. She is currently a Junior Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and has focused her research on food banks and homeless shelters in Berlin and London. Jan-Jonathan Bock holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and is currently a Junior Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute and a Research Associate at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He is studying crisis experiences, changing practices of citizenship, and realities of pluralism in Berlin and Rome.