Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy
Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy

Author: Ian Barns

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-05

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1134739656

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Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy shows how poststructuralist ideas can be usefully applied in the areas of welfare, health, education and science and technology policy, making particular reference to the theme of citizenship. The impact of poststructuralism on thinking in the social sciences and humanities over the last decade has been profound. However, to date, there has been little systematic analysis of the implications of poststructuralism for the critical analysis of social policy. Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy will provide essential reading for students and researchers working in the areas of welfare studies, the sociology of health and medicine, political studies, social work, social administration and education.

Post-Anthropocentric Social Work
Post-Anthropocentric Social Work

Author: Vivienne Bozalek

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-21

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1000317692

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This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise that challenge human exceptionalism. Social work is at heart a liberal humanist project informed by a strong human rights framework. This edited collection draws on the literature on affect, feminist new materialism and critical posthumanism to critique the liberal framework, which includes human rights. Disrupting the anthropocentrism in social work which positions humans as an elite species at the centre of world history, this book develops an ethical sensibility that values entanglements of humans, non-human life and the natural environment. The book provides new insights into environmental destruction, human-animal relations, gender inequality and male dominance, as well as indigenous and settler/colonial issues and critical and green social work. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work, community development, social policy and development studies more broadly.

Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements
Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements

Author: Hein-Anton van der Heijden

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2014-10-31

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 1781954704

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øThis Handbook uniquely collates the results of several decades of academic research in these two important fields. The expert contributions successively address the different forms of political citizenship and current approaches and recent development

Risk, Social Policy And Welfare
Risk, Social Policy And Welfare

Author: Kemshall, Hazel

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2001-12-01

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0335204090

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By drawing on current social policy developments and case examples from health, the personal social services and mental health, this book examines how risk is replacing need as the key principle of welfare organization and state provision of services. It explores the growing role of risk-based allocation and rationing systems in a climate of welfare retrenchment, and the implications for users and providers of welfare.

Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750
Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750

Author: Anne Borsay

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2004-11-17

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1137181095

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This approachable study explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Using literary, visual, and oral sources to complement documentary evidence, Anne Borsay pays particular attention to the testimonies of disabled people. Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750: - Places disability policies within their historical context - examines citizenship and social exclusion from a historical perspective - Sketches the key characteristics of modern industrial societies - Focuses on the shifting mixed economy of welfare, the development of social rights and the construction of identity - Assesses institutional living in workhouses, hospitals, asylums, and schools - Appraises community living with reference to employment, financial relief and community care - Reviews social policies post-1979 Borsay argues that disabled people were excluded from the full rights of citizenship because they were marginal to the labour market and suggests that history may play a role in raising personal and political consciousness. Containing illustrations, and clearly structured, this book is an ideal guide for all those with an interest in the history of disability and social policies.

Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy
Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy

Author: Ruth Lister

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1447338391

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Demonstrating the relevance of theory to political and policy debates and practice, this lively and accessible second edition helps students to grasp the real-life implications of social policy theory. The updated text includes consideration of contemporary shifts in welfare ideologies in the context of global austerity and the UK Coalition and Conservative governments since 2010. With a new chapter focusing on critical debates about disability, sexuality and the environment, this textbook also includes fresh reflections on migration, conditionality, resilience, social justice and human rights. Key features include: • real-life examples from UK and international politics and policy to explain and illuminate the significance of social policy theory; • key questions for student reflection and engagement; and • bulleted chapter summaries and annotated further readings at the end of every chapter. This new edition is a dynamic, engaging and valuable introduction to the key theoretical perspectives and concepts deployed in social policy.

Social Policy
Social Policy

Author: John Baldock

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 0199284970

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Designed for use by undergraduates on social policy, social work and sociology courses and by students on vocational training courses (including postgraduate), this textbook covers all the main topics of social policy.

The Social Work Business
The Social Work Business

Author: John Harris

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780415224871

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This book gives a comprehensive picture of social work in its new guise as a quasi-public enterprise, and is an invaluable resource for social work and social policy students, practice teachers, trainers and managers.

Poststructural Policy Analysis
Poststructural Policy Analysis

Author: Carol Bacchi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-24

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1137525460

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This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government’s best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce “problems” as particular sorts of problems, with important political implications. Governing, it is argued, takes place through these problematizations. According to the authors, interrogating policies and policy proposals as problematizations involves asking questions about the assumptions they rely upon, how they have been made, what their effects are, as well as how they could be unmade. To enable this form of critical analysis, this book introduces an analytic strategy, the “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” (WPR) approach. It features examples of applications of the approach with topics as diverse as obesity, economic policy, migration, drug and alcohol policy, and gender equality to illustrate the growing popularity of this way of thinking and to provide clear and useful examples of poststructural policy analysis in practice.

Governance, Consumers and Citizens
Governance, Consumers and Citizens

Author: M. Bevir

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-09-12

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0230591361

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This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions between competing ideas and practices of consumerism, and the active role of consumers in governance.