Introduction: claiming social citizenship

Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale

doi:10.1080/13621025.2011.564806

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“…It is thus a form of social citizenship, a term introduced by Marshall in an historical essay ([1938] 1963) in which he explains how capitalist societies try to buffer the effects of increasing inequality, while guaranteeing the continuous functioning of the workforce. His terminology was taken up to describe how many European nation states introduced rights to housing, education and health care as part of their different modernization paradigms (Yalçın-Heckmann 2011;Briggs [1961] 2014). 6 Although many of these tasks have been 'abandoned or redistributed' to other bodies of authorities (Eckert 2011, 309;Krause and Schramm 2011), being classified as disabled still opens up (however limited) possibilities to access resources (Staples 2005).…”

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Speaking from the blind spot: political subjectivity and articulations of disability

Krause

2018

Critical African Studies

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To become classified as disabled opens up the possibility to access resources. At the same time, it fixes multiple and idiosyncratic experiences of impairment into a circumscribed status of different and lesser. In this article I am thinking about the contradictory nature of classification and citizenship with the complex case of Miriam, a Ghanaian woman who moved to the UK to study. Miriam suffered from increasing impairment of her sight due to long term effects of an allergic reaction to medication while simultaneously losing her legal status. The recognition of her impairment as medical blindness and her engagement with medical specialists over her rare bodily condition resulted in new capabilities, including a new legal status. Her case shows how categorizations such as disability status and permits to stay come together in different positionings. This article suggests understanding political subjectivities not so much as acts of breaking scripts, but as happening simultaneously along different scales ranging from everyday practices to institutionalized forms of support. These multiple enactments of subject positions can be seen as articulations of political subjectivities that turn a damaged body into a right bearing subject. être vues comme des articulations des subjectivités politiques qui changent un corps abîmé en sujet porteur de droits.How can we avoid colluding with and adding to the power and dominance of an order of the normal? (…) how can we avoid becoming involved in its exclusions and its disarticulation of alternative ways of living? (Moser 2005, 668) When Miriam woke up in one of the large London hospitals having been run down by a car for the second time she realized that there was indeed a problem with her sight, although she was not yet prepared to call herself blind. A social worker came to her hospital bed to talk about the white stick and to sign her up for an initial training programme. At this first visit, Miriam simply refused to talk to her, instead turning to face the wall. However, at the next visit she not only listened but also asked some prepared questions. She was also visited by consultants from the dermatology and ophthalmology departments who were very interested in examining her eyes. 'Because I am a rare guinea pig' Miriam 1 told me, 'they have never met a case like me before'. She agreed to be examined by medical students and paid close attention when the consultant explained to his students what had happened to Miriam's eyes. In the late 1990s, Miriam suffered a rare and extreme adverse drug reaction which severely affected the membranes in her eyes. At that point she had just finished her A-levels in her home country Ghana and was treated for malaria-like symptoms with a standard medication. She was the one person in 1-2 million each year who has an adverse reaction to this and other common medications in which the different layers of skin dissolve, just as in cases of severe burns. The body 'burns from the inside out', gets covered with large blisters and the skin ev...

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Speaking from the blind spot: political subjectivity and articulations of disability

Krause

2018

Critical African Studies

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“…Pour que ce lien entre engagement et citoyenneté fasse sens, il ne faut pas que la citoyenneté soit conçue seulement comme un statut conférant des droits aux membres d'une collectivité. Elle doit aussi être envisagée de manière dynamique, comme un processus d'appropriation (Yalçin‐Heckmann ), une pratique (Durose, Greasley et Richardson ), comme l'ensemble des actes (Isin ) par lesquels les membres d'une collectivité s'approprient, utilisent leurs droits et concrétisent leur appartenance à la collectivité. L'engagement civique manifeste l'exercice de la citoyenneté.…”

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L'engagement civique local : de l'incantation générique à la valorisation segmentée

Divay¹

2012

Can Public Adm

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Sommaire L'engagement civique local connaît un regain d'actualité qui s'explique par l'évolution du rôle des municipalités dans l'ensemble de l'action étatique et de ses conséquences sur l'exercice de la citoyenneté locale. L'intensification de l'engagement civique est bénéfique autant pour la démocratie locale que pour la gouvernance locale, tout en accentuant les tensions entre les deux. Si l'on veut stimuler l'engagement civique, encore faut‐il l'appréhender dans toutes ses dimensions, alors qu'il est souvent réduit à la participation formelle aux processus décisionnels. Afin de prendre en compte toutes ses dimensions, cet article propose une typologie des rôles que jouent les citoyens dans leur collectivité locale. Cette typologie opère une segmentation substantive du statut de citoyen local qui permet de repérer les multiples manifestations de l'engagement et de toutes les valoriser. Elle jette aussi un éclairage sur les défis spécifiques d'un management local qui se centrerait moins sur ce que fait l'administration et davantage sur ce qu'apportent les citoyens, engagés à divers titres et niveaux.

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“…-The second group: From the perspective of egalitarian liberalism, the development of individual freedom and individual rights is the core of creating social policies through the realization of social citizenship. It aims to reach free and equal citizens (13). The liberalist approach seeks equality by providing minimum welfare services and seeks to reduce costs with the most welfare coverage; that is, low welfare services with higher public coverage (14).…”

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Construction and Validation of Social Citizenship Index

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Background: Social citizenship means creating a situation in which everyone can develop their full potential. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the social citizenship index with its various dimensions in selected countries. Methods: This study used a mixed-methods approach consisting of two phases. In the first phase, social citizenship items were extracted based on a systematic review of previous studies and interviews with experts using direct content analysis. In the second phase, the standardized index was assessed by performing the validity and reliability tests. To combine the dimensions, their values were standardized using the Z score. To analyze the data, factor analysis and normality tests were used. Results: The social citizenship index was categorized into four main dimensions, including health and education, livelihood, economic-political prosperity, and open society. In this study, 125 countries were categorized based on the Social Citizenship Index. The selected countries were classified into three categories based on the opinions of the research group and the cutting point of statistical quartiles: high (32 countries), medium (62 countries), and low (31 countries). Conclusions: It can be concluded that the social citizenship index with four main dimensions and 26 variables is a new tool that allows countries to be compared in the areas of providing welfare services to their citizens.

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Introduction: claiming social citizenship

Cited by 10 publications

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Speaking from the blind spot: political subjectivity and articulations of disability

Speaking from the blind spot: political subjectivity and articulations of disability

L'engagement civique local : de l'incantation générique à la valorisation segmentée

Construction and Validation of Social Citizenship Index

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