Theories of citizenship have traditionally been predicated upon notions of the universal subject – a subject which presupposes a white, able, male body, engaged in market participation. Citizenship discourses appear to offer very little to people with disabilities either theoretically or practically as disability has been absent from most all key citizenship debates. Dominant theories of liberal citizenship highlight individualism and rights. Civic republicanism and communitarianism stress obligations, participation and community. These hegemonic ideologies of citizenship have offered a dichotomy of rights versus participation with space only for the able bodied subject engaged in market participation. In response, feminist theories have pr...
This dissertation attends to the ways in which the boundaries and defining features of political mem...
The research described in this thesis had two main aims. First, to examine the concept of citizenshi...
In my analysis of rights and intellectual disability in the twentieth century United States, I argue...
This thesis argues that the invisibility of disabled people in the Citizenship curriculum is no long...
What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship i...
This article first identifies citizenship as an ambiguous con-cept with changing and contested meani...
Governments, human rights bodies and disability studies scholars all have suggested that disabled pe...
The concept of citizenship was created in Greece about 600 BC, and has for most of the time been tre...
This dissertation aims to contribute to sociology, citizenship studies and disability studies by res...
The British Disabled People’s Movement’s (DPM’s) attempt to define disability as a social relationsh...
Although the idea of citizenship is nearly universal today, what it means and how it is experienced ...
Citizenship and rights conventionally refer to the ways in which the relationship between the indivi...
The notion of citizenship has become fashionable once again and has become a shorthand device for ta...
Perhaps largely due to the successful campaigning of a number of pressure groups and social movement...
Citizenship has been described as a ‘momentum concept’ (Hoffman, 2004). One important development ov...
This dissertation attends to the ways in which the boundaries and defining features of political mem...
The research described in this thesis had two main aims. First, to examine the concept of citizenshi...
In my analysis of rights and intellectual disability in the twentieth century United States, I argue...
This thesis argues that the invisibility of disabled people in the Citizenship curriculum is no long...
What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship i...
This article first identifies citizenship as an ambiguous con-cept with changing and contested meani...
Governments, human rights bodies and disability studies scholars all have suggested that disabled pe...
The concept of citizenship was created in Greece about 600 BC, and has for most of the time been tre...
This dissertation aims to contribute to sociology, citizenship studies and disability studies by res...
The British Disabled People’s Movement’s (DPM’s) attempt to define disability as a social relationsh...
Although the idea of citizenship is nearly universal today, what it means and how it is experienced ...
Citizenship and rights conventionally refer to the ways in which the relationship between the indivi...
The notion of citizenship has become fashionable once again and has become a shorthand device for ta...
Perhaps largely due to the successful campaigning of a number of pressure groups and social movement...
Citizenship has been described as a ‘momentum concept’ (Hoffman, 2004). One important development ov...
This dissertation attends to the ways in which the boundaries and defining features of political mem...
The research described in this thesis had two main aims. First, to examine the concept of citizenshi...
In my analysis of rights and intellectual disability in the twentieth century United States, I argue...