基本説明
Based on 250 life-story interviews in seven EU countries (France, Britain, Spain, Germany, Greece, Sweden and Italy).
Full 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.
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 Hungerbühler, Elisabet Tejero and Laura Torrabadella;
Guilty victims: social exclusion in contemporary France ‾ Numa Murard; Premodernity and postmodernity in Southern Italy ‾ Antonella Spanò; 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 Spanò; 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.
