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Drawing on the real-life experiences of front-line behavioral care providers as well as those they work with, this book confronts the harsh emotional realities of health and social care and includes material on child abuse, racism, refugee status and poverty.

Abstract
This paper applies to ancient Greece an approach
developed by Pierre Rosanvallon: the integration of philosophical
texts with the most everyday documents to better grasp a society's
understanding of its political life. For the ancient polis, this means
focusing on the more prosaic evidence offered by cities' inscriptions,
especially their collective decisions published on stone. It is used
here to consider the changing ideas about the nature of political and
private life—and especially the space between them. In a very
influential model, Classical Athenian democrats and philosophers
tended to insist on a sharp binary distinction between public/
political life and private life, leaving little room for a notion of
an intermediate third space of polis life, similar to a "social
sphere" or "civil society." This pattern remained dominant in the
Hellenistic and Roman periods, but, especially after c. 150 BC, some
Greek citizens and intellectuals developed, above all in inscriptions,
a much more explicit, complex, and subtle notion of "social life" as
something between politics and private life. The article concludes by
asking what the different ancient concepts discussed can contribute to
current historiographical debates about the nature of the Greek city
after c. 150 BC, especially when it comes to moving beyond the
traditional picture of "depoliticization." It also calls into question
the orthodox narrative of the development of ideas of "the social"
over many centuries up to the present.

Some dominant traditions in Refugee Studies have stressed the barrier which state citizenship presents to the displaced. Some have condemned citizenship altogether as a mechanism and ideology for excluding the weak (G. Agamben). Others have seen citizenship as an acute problem for displaced people in conditions, like those of the modern world, where the habitable world is comprehensively settled by states capable of defending their territory and organised in accordance with interstate norms, which leaves very limited space for the foundation of new communities with their own meaningful citizenship (H. Arendt). This paper engages with these prominent approaches, but also with more recent arguments that, when handled and adapted in the right way, the practices and ideology of citizenship also present opportunities for the displaced to form their own meaningful communities, exercise collective agency, and secure rights. It is argued that the evidence from ancient Greece shows that ancient Greek citizenship, an early forerunner of modern models of citizenship, could be imaginatively harnessed and adapted by displaced people and groups, in order to form effective and sometimes innovative political communities in exile, even after opportunities to found new city-states from scratch became quite rare (after c. 500 BC). Some relevant displaced groups experimented with more open and cosmopolitan styles of civic interaction and ideology in their improvised quasi-civic communities. The different kinds of ancient Greek informal 'polis-in-exile' can bring a new perspective on the wider debates and initiatives concerning refugee political agency and organisation in the 'provocations' in the special issue of which this article forms part.