Austerity, Community Action, and the Future of Citizenship in Europe / / ed. by Shana Cohen, Christina Fuhr, Jan-Jonathan Bock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Christopher,; Bansil, Amardeep,; Bock, Jan-Jonathan,; Cohen, Shana,; Diamond, Patrick,; Elgenius, Gabriella,; Fuhr, Christina,; Greenwood, Sarah,; Howlin, Michelle,; Jones, Paul A,; Lawrence, Jon,; Miley, Thomas Jeffrey,; Morris, John,; Price, Chris,; Selke, Stefan,; Stone, Martin,; Werth, Sabine,
• HerausgeberIn: Bock, Jan-Jonathan,; Cohen, Shana,; Fuhr, Christina,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

The politics of austerity has seen governments across Europe cut back on welfare provision. As the State retreats, this edited collection explores secular and faith-based grassroots social action in Germany and the United Kingdom that has evolved in response to changing economic policy and expanding needs, from basic items such as food to more complex means to move out of poverty. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and practitioners in several areas of social intervention, the book explores how the conceptualization and constitutive practices of citizenship and community are changing because of the retreat of the State and the challenge of meeting social and material needs, creating new opportunities for local activism. The book provides new ways of thinking about social and political belonging and about the relations between individual, collective, and State responsibility.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: social activism, belonging and citizenship in a period of crisis -- The social consequences of welfare policy -- Fulfilling basic human needs: the welfare state after Beveridge -- Social division and resentment in the aftermath of the economic slump -- The practice of social good -- Austerity and social welfare in the UK: a perspective from the advice sector -- Breaking the hold of debt: Cambridge Money Advice Centre -- Community finance: the emergence of credit unions in London -- Finding employment and living a good life in London -- The Tafel and food poverty in Germany -- Addressing food poverty in the UK -- Helping the homeless: a soup kitchen in London -- Social change and neoliberalism -- Social initiatives and social solidarity under austerity -- The new economy of poverty -- Challenges for the struggle against austerity in Britain and Europe -- Situating solidarity in perspective -- Individualism and community in historical perspective -- Aiming for reconnection: responsible citizenship -- Conclusion: citizenship, community and solidarity at the end of the welfare state -- Index