From New Labour to New Conservatism: the changing dynamics of citizenship as self-government |
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Authors: | Pathik Pathak |
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Affiliation: | Division of Sociology and Social Policy , University of Southampton, Highfield Lane Southampton , Hampshire , UK |
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Abstract: | This article examines the shift in discourses of citizenship from Britain from notions of entitlement and obligation to those of self-government, and the reciprocity between the responsibilisation of individual and collective citizen-subjectivities. Against the backdrop of debates about society as the telos of government, this article will interrogate the claim that New Conservatism's ‘Big Society’ represents a unique rationality of government and an alternative formula of advanced liberal rule. By doing so, the article will extend our understanding of ‘post-welfare regimes of the social’ and illustrate precisely how they operate in contemporary Britain. |
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Keywords: | citizen citizenship governmentality neo-liberal politics state |
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