The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters
Title | The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Nanna Mik-Meyer |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2017-08-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1526110318 |
This book is about power in welfare encounters. Present-day citizens are no longer the passive clients of the bureaucracy and welfare workers are no longer automatically the powerful party of the encounter. Instead, citizens are expected to engage in active, responsible and coproducing relationships with welfare workers. However, other factors impact these interactions; factors which often pull in different directions. Welfare encounters are thus influenced by bureaucratic principles and market values as well. Consequently, this book engages with both Weberian (bureaucracy) and Foucauldian (market values/NPM) studies when investigating the powerful welfare encounter. The book is targeted Academics, post-graduates, and undergraduates within sociology, anthropology and political science.
Power and Welfare
Title | Power and Welfare PDF eBook |
Author | Nanna Mik-Meyer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415534429 |
When the state punishes criminals or removes children at risk, its power is immediately apparent. However, power is also at stake when the state seeks to educate, advise, or empower citizens, and this book encourages reflection on the exercise of professional power in these less coercive encounters.
The Politics of the Public Encounter
Title | The Politics of the Public Encounter PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hupe |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2022-11-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 180088933X |
On the ground floor of government, citizens interact with teachers, medical staff, police officers and other professionals in public service. It is during these encounters that laws, public policies and professional guidelines gain further substance and form. In this insightful book, Peter Hupe brings together expert contributions from scholars across the globe to study the social mechanisms behind these public encounters.
Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State
Title | Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State PDF eBook |
Author | Trine Øland |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2019-02-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1351264427 |
Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State provides an ambiguous yet disturbing portrait of the inner workings of the Danish welfare state and its implications in a context of globalisation and migration. Through a sociological interview-study with welfare workers, this book describes how processes of othering are undercurrents of welfare work. The processes construct immigrants and refugees as a kind of people who are not only culturally different but also behind, deficient and weak, and thus assigned the potential to benefit from welfare work. These processes are designated to advance a racial welfare dynamic of remedial circularity which keeps the immigrant and refugee on the threshold of modern living and democracy. It is thus depicted how welfare work is intertwined not with a biological framework but with a cultural framework naturalising and ontologising cultural differences. The book examines how welfare work tends to appreciate immigrants and refugees as dislocated people with a cultural lack and how it abides by the dictums of civilising expansions and humanitarian imperialism within the modern state. This book will be useful for every scholar who wants to reconsider and think differently about how the welfare state is going to proceed in a global society.
Refiguring childhood
Title | Refiguring childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Ryan |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2020-10-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1526148609 |
Refiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. Taking up a critical perspective that is attentive to the contingency of childhoods – the ways in which particular childhoods are constituted and configured – this book offers a transversal genealogy that moves between past and present while also crossing a series of discourses and practices framed by children’s rights (the right to play), citizenship, health, disadvantage, and entrepreneurship education. The overarching analysis converges on contemporary neo-liberal enterprise culture, which is approached as a conjuncture that helps to explain, and also to trouble, the growing emphasis on the agency and rights of children. It is against the backdrop of this problematic that the book makes its case for refiguring childhood, focusing on the how, where and when of biosocial power.
Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions
Title | Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions PDF eBook |
Author | Rik Peeters |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2024-04-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1447368770 |
In this book, street-level bureaucracy scholars from South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America analyse the conditions that shape frontline work and citizens ́ everyday experience of the state. Institutional factors such as political clientelism, resource scarcity, social inequality, job insecurity, and systemic corruption affect the way street-level bureaucrats enforce rules and implement policies. Inadvertently, they end up implementing inequities in citizens’ access to rights and services — despite efforts to repair organisational deficiencies and broker relations between vulnerable citizens and a distant state. This book illuminates these realities and challenges and provides unique insights into critical themes such as resource scarcities, bureaucratic corruption, control practices, and the complexities of dealing with vulnerable population groups.
The four dimensions of power
Title | The four dimensions of power PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Haugaard |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2020-06-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1526110393 |