Citizenship And Vulnerability

Drawing on empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of proa... » 

Drawing on 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', this book proposes a model of 'active' citizenship that rests upon an understanding of 'vulnerable personhood'. «