Deadline for Abstracts and Paper Presentations

3 January 2007

Please send your abstract to Benjamin Ewert, Gießen University by e-mail: Benjamin.Ewert@sowi.uni-giessen.de

About the workshop

Under labels like "the enabling state" or "the social investment state" social protection interventions take new forms. Citizens and users are increasingly offered options instead of protection  tights , state protection is often linked with complementary action requested from the users and citizens. This creates changes in the nature of citizenship rights and entitlements, making them less fixed and more conditional; a contractual perspective on the state-citizen-relationship questions the separation between citizenship in terms of “passive” entitlements on the one and active citizenship on the other hand. The workshop will intensify work on conceptual and practical characteristics of such a development and on key areas of “investive” social policies such as education, health, labour market integration. 

The key questions of the workshop will be as follows:

- What are the main welfare state reforms whereby changes in social citizenship rights as the ones´ sketched above take shape? How to analyze this thematic?

- What are other aspects and driving forces for this change concerning social citizenship?

- What is the respective impact of long-term changes and what is linked to short term factors?

- Which dimensions are linked to modernisation and global economic and cultural changes, creating a widely shared new agenda?

- Which ones express foremost old and new inequalities?

- And which ones are mainly related to the predominance of certain political and ideological streams and projects?

10 paper givers are intended.

Target Group

The scientific seminar will be based on a limited number of papers of invited colleagues which are already fixed. There is however the possibility of adding own papers to the total pool of papers and/or to participate simply.

Costs

The workshop will be free for all paper-givers. Travel and accommodation costs from members of the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence will be normaly covered by each individual participant from CINEFOGO funds.

Responsible institutions

The workshop is a cooperation project between University of Paris/Sorbonne, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and Charles University Prague.