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Responsibility, participation and choice are key policy framings of
active citizenship, summoning the citizen to take on new roles in
welfare state reform. This volume traces the emergence of new
discourses and the ways in which they take up and rework struggles
of social movements for greater independence, power and control. It
explores the changing cultural and political inflections of active
citizenship in Germany, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, France,
Italy and the UK, with ethnographic research complementing policy
analysis. The editors then look across the volume to assess some of
the tensions and contradictions arising in the turn to active
citizenship. Two final chapters address the reworking of
citizen/professional relationships and the remaking of public,
private and personal responsibilities, with a particular focus on
the contribution of feminist research and theory.
The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a
legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling
at home, has become a requirement. This groundbreaking book
analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants,
who are increasingly expected to express feelings of attachment,
belonging, connectedness and loyalty to their new country. More
than this, however, it demonstrates how this culturalization of
citizenship is a global trend with local variations, which develop
in relation to each other. The authors pay particular attention to
the intersection between sexuality, race and ethnicity, spurred on
by their awareness of the dialectical construction of
homosexuality, held up as representative of liberal Western values
by both those in the West and by African leaders, who use such
claims as proof that homosexuality is un-African.
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