Biography and social exclusion in Europe : experiences and life journeys
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Biography and social exclusion in Europe : experiences and life journeys
Policy Press, 2002
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  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9781861343093
Description
Based on 250 life-story interviews in seven European Union countries, Biography and social exclusion in Europe:
analyses personal struggles against social exclusion to illuminate local milieus and changing welfare regimes and contexts;
points to challenging new agendas for European politics and welfare, beyond the rhetoric of communitarianism and the New Deal;
vividly illustrates the lived experience and environmental complexity working for and against structural processes of social exclusion;
refashions the interpretive tradition as a teaching and research tool linking macro and micro realities.
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Students, academic teachers and professional trainers, practitioners, politicians, policy makers and researchers in applied and comparative welfare fields will all benefit from reading this book.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction: from biography to social policy ~ Michael Rustin and Prue Chamberlayne
- Suffering the fall of the Berlin wall: blocked journeys in Spain and Germany ~ William Hungerbuhler, Elisabet Tejero and Laura Torrabadella
- Guilty victims: social exclusion in contemporary France ~ Numa Murard
- Premodernity and postmodernity in Southern Italy ~ Antonella Spano
- A tale of class differences in contemporary Britain ~ Michael Rustin
- The shortest way out of work ~ Numa Murard
- Male journeys into uncertainty ~ Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou and Elizabeth Mestheneos
- Love and emancipation ~ Birgitta Thorsell
- Female identities in late modernity ~ Antonella Spano
- Gender and family in the development of Greek state and society ~ Elizabeth Mestheneos and Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou
- Corporatist structure and cultural diversity in Sweden ~ Martin Peterson
- 'Migrants': a target-category for social policy? Experiences of first-generation migration ~ Roswitha Breckner
- Second-generation transcultural lives ~ Prue Chamberlayne
- Biographical work and agency innovation: relationships, reflexivity and theory-in-use ~ Tom Wengraf
- Conclusions: social transitions and biographical work ~ Prue Chamberlayne.
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ISBN 9781861343109
Description
Throughout Europe, standardised approaches to social policy and practice are being radically questioned and modified. Beginning from the narrative detail of individual lives, this book re-thinks welfare predicaments, emphasising gender, generation, ethnic and class implications of economic and social deregulation. Taking an innovative socio-biographical approach to comparative social policy, it argues that understanding individually differentiated biographical resources and strategies provides a bedrock for the appropriate training and effective practice of policy-makers, practitioners and researchers. Based on 250 life-story interviews in seven European Union countries, this work: analyses personal struggles against social exclusion to illuminate local milieus and changing welfare regimes and contexts; points to challenging new agendas for European politics and welfare, beyond the rhetoric of communitarianism and the New Deal; vividly illustrates the lived experience and environmental complexity working for and against structural processes of social exclusion; re-fashions the interpretive tradition as a teaching and research tool linking macro- and micro- realities.
Students, academic teachers and professional trainers, practitioners, politicians, policy makers and researchers in applied and comparative welfare fields should all benefit from reading this book.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Restrictions on mobility: The shortest way out of work Numa Murard
- Blocked journeys and historical transitions William Hungerbuehler, Elisabet Tejero and Laura Torrabadella
- Part Two: Losing class solidarities: Pre-modernity and post-modernity in Southern Italy Antonella Spano
- Guilty victims Numa Murard
- Male voyages into uncertainty Elisabeth Mestheneos and Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou
- Part Three: Women's lives: Female identities in late modernity Antonella Spano
- Gender and family in Greek state and society Elisabeth Mestheneos and Elisabeth Ioannidi-Kapolou
- Part Four: Migration and society: Migrants: a target category for social policy Roswitha Breckner
- Second generation transcultural lives Prue Chamberlayne
- Part Five: The Agency Studies: Agencies: biographical work and learning organisations Tom Wengraf
- Conclusions Prue Chamberlayne.
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