Austerity, community action, and the future of citizenship

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4473-3103-2
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding needs, from basic items such as food to more complex means to move out of poverty.

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and practitioners in several areas of social intervention, the book explores how the conceptualization and constitutive practices of citizenship and community are changing because of the retreat of the State and the challenge of meeting social and material needs, creating new opportunities for local activism.

The book provides new ways of thinking about social and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective, and State responsibility.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Shana

Fuhr, Christina

Bock, Jan-Jonathan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baker, Christopher

Lawrence, Jon

Miley, Thomas Jeffrey

Selke, Stefan

Greenwood, Sarah

Werth, Sabine

Elgenius, Gabriella

Jones, Paul

Morris, John

Diamond, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Fulfilling basic human needs: the welfare state after Beveridge ~ Patrick Diamond

Social division and resentment in the aftermath of the economic slump ~ Gabriella Elgenius;

Part II: The practice of social good

Austerity and social welfare in the UK: a perspective from the advice sector ~ Amardeep Bansil

Breaking the hold of debt: Cambridge Money Advice Centre ~ John Morris

Community finance: the emergence of credit unions in London ~ Paul A Jones and Michelle Howlin

Finding employment and living a good life in London ~ Chris Price

The Tafel and food poverty in Germany ~ Sabine Werth

Addressing food poverty in the UK ~ Sarah Greenwood

Helping the homeless: a soup kitchen in London ~ Martin Stone

Part III: Social change and neoliberalism

Social initiatives and social solidarity under austerity ~ Christina Fuhr

The new economy of poverty ~ Stefan Selke

Challenges for the struggle against austerity in Britain and Europe ~ Thomas Jeffrey Miley

Part IV: Situating solidarity in perspective

Individualism and community in historical perspective ~ Jon Lawrence

Aiming for reconnection: responsible citizenship ~ Christopher Baker

Conclusion: citizenship, community and solidarity at the end of the welfare state ~ Jan-Jonathan Bock and Shana Cohen

Über Autor(innen)

Fuhr, Christina
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.

Lawrence, Jon
University of Exeter

Elgenius, Gabriella
University of Gothenburg

Cohen, Shana
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.

Baker, Christopher
Goldsmiths University London

Bock, Jan-Jonathan
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.

Greenwood, Sarah
University of Reading

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.