Austerity, community action, and the future of citizenship

Explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the UK that has evolved in response to the shrinking of the welfare state. The book provides new ways of thinking about social and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective and State responsibility.

About the author

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.

Summary

Exploring secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the UK, this book provides new ways of thinking about social and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective and State responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: Shana Cohen
• Assisted by: Jan-Jonathan Bock (Editor), Jan-Jonathan (Woolf Institute Cambridge) Bock (Editor), Shana Cohen (Editor), Shana (University of Cambridge) Cohen (Editor), Christina Fuhr (Editor), Christina (Woolf Institute in Cambridge) Fuhr (Editor)
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781447331032
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-3103-2
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education