New Labour’s citizens: activated, empowered, responsibilized, abandoned?

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Emotional geographies of young people's aspirations for adult life (2011, background): “These policy interventions have been an integral part of a broader post-welfare ‘politics of aspiration’ (Raco 2009 ) that seeks to individualise responsibility for personal well-being by promoting a self-reliant, entrepreneurial citizenship that is counterposed to the expectation that the state wi”
Include Us Out—Economic Development and Social Policy in the Creative Industries (2006, background): “New Labour’s notion of the ‘citizen’ is thus as Clarke (2005) described it, a hybrid, ‘drawing on social democratic and communitarian conceptions of the citizen, but dominated by the neo-liberal concern to liberate the citizen from the state’.”