Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment

John Andersen is Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University Centre, Denmark. He previously worked as a expert for the European Commission from 1991 to 1994 in the third European Anti Poverty Programme (Poverty 3). His current fields of research are empowerment of underprivileged groups, urban policy and the inclusive labour market. Birte Siim is Associate Professor at the Institute for History, International and Social Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark. She co-ordinated the national research programme Gender-Empowerment-Politics (GEP) from 1996 to 2002. She is author of Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark 2000) and has co-edited Contested Concepts. Gender and Social Politics (2002). She is currently researching issues concerning gender, citizenship and multiculturalism.

• Introduction: Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment: Gender, Class and Citizenship; J.Andersen & B.Siim Situated Knowledges and Democratic Discussions; I.Young Identity Politics: Have we now had Enough?; A.Phillips Deliberative Democracy and Civil Society; J.Ulrich Globalization, Democracy and the Politics of Every Day Life - Gendered Challenges; B.Siim Strategies for Inclusion of Women in Democracy: Between Movement Politics and Representative Politics; A-D.Christensen Gendered Citizenship: A Model for European Citizenship?; U.Gerhardt A Politics of Recognition and Respect: Involving People with Experience of Poverty in Decision Making that Affects their Lives; R.Lister Exclusion, Inclusion and Empowerment; M.Mayo Redefining Citizenship: Community, Civil Society and Adult Learning; P.McClenaghan Welfare, Gender and Political Agency: Comparing Strategies in the UK and Denmark; D.Etherington The Politics of Marginal Space; J.E.Larsen Social Polarization and Urban Democratic Governance; J.Andersen & J.E.Larsen Author Index Subject Index