The Imagined Community of Access and Equity

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ID11229269
AutoresChristine Everingham (autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume33
Fascículo1
Páginas1-16
Data de publicação1998-02-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1839-4655.1998.tb01321.x
OpenAlexW2246683733
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas7

Access and Equity programs are framed within the discourse of citizenship and organised around the notion of individual rights. This marks a shift in orientation away from the individual liberation strategies of the 1960s and 1970s, which utilised the notion of ‘community’ as the major site of struggle. Nevertheless, Access and Equity programs must engage with the multiple and contradictory meanings that were infused into the notion of community during these earlier struggles. They must also engage with the ‘communities’ that were politically constituted during this era and utilise the community‐based services that are now a fundamental part of the welfare system. It is argued that governments are able to utilise this legacy to resolve the contradictions inherent in Access and Equity programs, in particular the tension between ‘sameness’ and ‘difference’, universal citizenship and substantive equality. As this tension become more acute with government stringency measures, the limitations of reform strategies based on the notion of citizenship become more apparent

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