Subversive citizens : : Power, agency and resistance in public services / / ed. by Marian Barnes, David Prior.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Barnes, Marian,; Burford, Gale,; Clarke, John,; Flint, John,; Hughes, Nathan,; Hunter, Shona,; Morris, Kate,; Newman, Janet,; Nixon, Judy,; Parr, Sadie,; Prior, David,; Sullivan, Helen,; Westmarland, Louise,
• HerausgeberIn: Barnes, Marian,; Prior, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Many of the recent reforms in public services in the UK have been driven by the image of the 'responsible citizen' - the service user who does not only have rights to receive services but also has responsibilities for the delivery of policy outcomes. In this way, citizens' everyday co...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Examining the idea of ‘subversion’ in public services
• Perspectives on subversive citizenship
• Policy, power and the potential for counter-agency
• Alliances, contention and oppositional consciousness: can public participation generate subversion?
• Subversive spheres: neighbourhoods, citizens and the ‘new governance’
• Narrating subversion, assembling citizenship
• Subversive subjects and conditional, earned and denied citizenship
• Subversive citizens in public service settings
• Family intervention projects: sites of subversion and resilience
• Family decision making: new spaces for participation and resistance
• Subversive attachments: gendered, raced and professional realignments in the ‘new’ NHS
• Managerialism subverted? Exploring the activity of youth justice practitioners
• Awkward customers? Policing in a consumer age
• Conclusion
• ‘Subversion’ and the analysis of public policy
• References
• Index