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

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.

About the Author:
Angharad E. Beckett is Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, UK