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Edinburgh University Press Public Health and the American State
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Palgrave USA Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe
Book SynopsisThis book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.Trade Review'[A] good and enjoyable read...[,] should certainly be considered by anyone interested in welfare reform, ideas, discourses and policy paradigms in Western Europe.' - Social Policy 'This book makes a worthwhile contribution to the debate on the role of ideas in welfare state change...' - Julia S. O'Connor, International Journal of Social Welfare '...an exposition of an extensive and important piece of research carried out within a rigorously comparative methodology and with carefully developed accounts of its findings.' - Robert Sykes, Social Policy& AdministrationTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors Ideas and Policy Change; P.Taylor-Gooby Paradigm Shifts, Power Resources and Labour Market Reform; P.Taylor-Gooby Policy Paradigms and Long-Term Care: Convergence or Continuing Difference?; V.Timonen The Myth of an Adult Worker Society: New Policy Discourses in European Welfare States; T.P.Larsen Changing Ideas on Pensions: Accounting for Differences in the Spread of the Multipillar Paradigm in Five EU Social Insurance Countries; F.Bönker Towards Activation? Social Assistance Reforms and Discourses; A.Aust & A.Arriba Current Employment Policy Paradigms in the UK, Sweden and Germany; J.Kananen The Europeanisation of Welfare; Paradigm Shifts and Social Policy Reforms; L.Moreno & B.Palier Index
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SAGE Publications Inc Social Policy
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SAGE Publications Inc Creating CitizenConsumers
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Times They Are Changing
Book SynopsisThe Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State presents a series of readings from international policy researchers that examine the effects of the recent financial crisis on welfare states around the world. Provides comprehensive and in depth coverage of changes in welfare states as a result of the financial crisis Reveals how the financial crisis is changing our perception of the welfare states Features contributions from policy researchers and academics from around the world Table of ContentsEditorial Introduction: Overview and Conclusion 1 Bent Greve 1 To What Extent Did the Financial Crisis Intensify the Pressure to Reform the Welfare State? 7 Barbara Vis, Kees van Kersbergen and Thomas H. Hylands 2 Falling Back on Old Habits? A Comparison of the Social and Unemployment Crisis Reactive Policy Strategies in Germany, the UK and Sweden 23 Heejung Chung and Stefan Thewissen 3 The Impact of the Crisis on Australian Social Security Policy in Historical Perspective 41 Peter Saunders and Chris Deeming 4 US Social Policy in the 21st Century: The Difficulties of Comprehensive Social Reform 59 Anne Daguerre 5 Economic Crisis and Welfare Retrenchment: Comparing Irish Policy Responses in the 1970s and 1980s with the Present 79 Fiona Dukelow 6 Crisis and Welfare State Change in the Netherlands 101 Mara Yerkes and Romke van der Veen 7 Explaining Welfare Reforms in Italy between Economy and Politics: External Constraints and Endogenous Dynamics 117 Franca Maino and Stefano Neri 8 The Economic Crisis as a Trigger of Convergence? Short-time Work in Italy, Germany and Austria 137 Stefano Sacchi, Federico Pancaldi and Claudia Arisi 9 Health Care Policy for Better or for Worse? Examining NHS Reforms During Times of Economic Crisis versus Relative Stability 161 Lorraine Frisina Doetter and Ralf Götze Index 179
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Bristol University Press Social Policy
Book SynopsisThis fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook is extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. Laying out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, it provides a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject.Trade Review"There is more food for thought here than in most introductory texts. It captures the very particular approach to the study of social issues that is British 'social policy', which is gaining ground internationally. It also gives really helpful advice to any student embarking on this rewarding journey." Howard Glennerster, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science"Social Policy: Theory and practice comes highly recommended as a thorough and stimulating introduction to the field." Citizen's Income Trust“Highly recommended book for professionals and students that care and are interested in people’s welfare, more than just measures.” Claudia Susana Gómez López, Universidad de Guanajuato"Extremely useful textbook for all social policy and social science undergraduates. The links between theory, policy and practice are particularly relevant and informative." Linda Wilkinson, Hull CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: the nature of social policy; Part 1: Social policy and society; Welfare in society; Inequalities; Problems and responses; Needs and welfare; Indicators - quantifying social issues; Part 2: Policy Public policy; Welfare states; Principles and values; Strategies for welfare; Policy in practice; Part 3: Social administration:The organisation and delivery of welfare; Welfare sectors; The organisation of public services; Value for money; Service delivery; Receiving welfare; The administrative process; Part 4: The methods and approaches of social policy; Research for policy; Evidence and policy; Social policy for practice.
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Bristol University Press Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care
Book SynopsisCurrent and future provision of health and social care for older people is explored in this timely study. It draws on examples from Germany, Sweden and the UK to measure the impact of trends including neoliberalisation and marketisation and it considers new solutions to contemporary challenges in a complex care system.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Discourse, Capital, Intersectionality and Precarity 3. Globalisation, Neoliberalism and Welfare State Models: A Comparative Analysis 4. Failing Health and Social Care in the UK: Austerity, Neoliberal Ideology and Precarity 5. Public Health, Emergency Settings and End of Life Care 6. The COVID-19 Health and Social Care Challenge 7. Innovative Solutions and Cultural Change Appendices
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Bristol University Press Clients Consumers or Citizens
Book SynopsisAdult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from the state to the market. This book meticulously charts this shift, challenges the dominant market paradigm, explores alternative models for a post-Covid-19 future and locates the debate within the wider political thinking and policy change literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Before the market 2 The emergence and consolidation of the market 3 Dilemmas in the commissioning of adult social care 4 Dilemmas in the provision of adult social care 5 State or market? 6 Context: funding and administration 7 Looking ahead: an ethical future for adult social care 8 COVID-19: the stress test of adult social care 9 Conclusion: making it change – morals, markets and power
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Bristol University Press The Struggle for Social Sustainability
Book SynopsisLeading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the social' of social policy. This ground-breaking volume tackles pressing social questions' and critically engages with contested conceptions of the social' which are increasingly deployed by international institutions and policy makers.Table of ContentsThe ‘social’ in the age of sustainability ~ Christopher Deeming ‘No such thing as society’?: Neoliberalism and the social ~ John Clarke The social question: Reconciling social and economic imperatives in policy ~ Bradley W. Bateman Disputing the economization and the de-politicization of ‘social’ investment in global social policy ~ Jean-Michel Bonvin and Francesco Laruffa The social dimension of sustainable development at the UN: From Brundtland to the SDGs ~ Iris Borowy Paradigm lost? Blocking the path to ecosocial welfare and post-productivism ~ Tony Fitzpatrick World population at the UN: Our numbers are not our problem? ~ Danny Dorling Ageing sustainably ~ Alan Walker The political challenges to governing global migration and social welfare ~ Edward A. Koning Bringing ‘the social’ into an intersectional analysis of global crises and welfare ~ Fiona Williams Global social policy and the quasi-concept of social cohesion ~ Jane Jenson Putting the global in social justice? ~ Gary Craig ‘Go-social’? Inclusive growth and global social governance ~ Christopher Deeming For better or worse? ~ Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The struggle for social sustainability ~ Christopher Deeming
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Bristol University Press Mapping Welfare Attitudes in East Asia
Book SynopsisEast Asian societies and welfare systems are rapidly changing. This original volume considers welfare attitudes in East Asia, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macao, Singapore and Taiwan. It proposes new methods and approaches to analysing cross-national variations in welfare attitudes.
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Bristol University Press Understanding Global Social Policy
Book SynopsisThe third edition of this leading textbook offers a contemporary, lively and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation, identifying key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.Table of Contents1. Introducing Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden Part 1: Institutions, Actors and Theories 2. Global and Regional Social Governance - Sophie MacKinder, Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden 3. International Trade, Global Economic Governance and Welfare - Chris Holden 4. Business, Labour and Global Social Policy - Kevin Farnsworth and Robert O’Brien 5. Theorising Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Chris Holden 6. Global Social Justice - Theo Papaioannou Part 2: Cross-Cutting Policy Fields and Issues 7. Global Climate Justice - Carolyn Snell 8. Global Poverty and Inequality - Chris Holden 9. Global Migrations and Global Social Policy - Nicola Yeates and Nicola Piper 10. Gender and Global Social Policy - Rianne Mahon 11. Young People and Global Social Policy - Ross Fergusson Part 3: Global Social Policy Domains 12. Global Social Policy at the Nexus of Water, Energy and Food - Jeremy J. Schmidt 13. Global Health Policy - Meri Koivusalo and Eeva Ollila 14. Global Education Policy - Susan Robertson and Roger Dale 15. Global Social Security Policy - Lutz Leisering
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Bristol University Press Social Policy Review 33
Book SynopsisPublished in association with the Social Policy Association, this volume addresses current issues and critical debates throughout the international social policy field with a key focus on migration, the impact of COVID-19 and global policy responses.Table of ContentsPart 1: COVID-19: Responses and Implications for Social Policy Introduction: Responses and implications for Social Policy - Marco Pomati and James Rees 1. Locked Down or Locked In? Institutionalized Public Preferences and Government Pandemic Response in 32 Countries - Hung H.V. Nguyen, Nate Breznau and Lisa Heukamp 2. New directions for European Union social policy in challenging times - Carla Valadas 3. Lesson-drawing for the UK Government during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a comparison of official, media and academic lenses - Sophie King-Hill, Ian Greener and Martin Powell 4. On the periphery of the global spotlight: Sweden’s social policy responses during the COVID-19 pan-demic - Jayeon Lindellee 5. Social Policies Put to Test by the Pandemic: Food Banks as an Indicator of the Insufficiencies and Paradoxes of Contemporary Social Policies - Jean-Michel Bonvin, Max Lovey, Emilie Rosenstein and Pierre Kempeneers 6. "We have been left to go it alone” The wellbeing of family carers of older people under Covid-19 - Cheshire-Allen M. and Gideon Calder 7. Gender crisis, or not? A comparative analysis of the impact on gender equality in Sweden and Germany due to the Covid-19 pandemic - Marlene Haupt and Viola Lind 8. Older adults’ access to information and referral service using technology in British Columbia, Canada: Past learnings and learnings since COVID-19 - Karen Lok Yi Wong, Andrew Sixsmith andd Leslie Remund 9. The pandemic as a litmus test for social security systems in transition economies – a case of Georgia - Ana Diakonidze Part 2: Migration Introduction - Andy Jolly 10. All of the same type? The use of ‘welfare tourism’ to limit the access of EU migrants to social benefits in the UK and Germany - Angie Gago 11. Where is the vulnerability assessment tool? Disabled asylum seekers in Direct Provision in Ireland and the EU (recast) Reception Conditions Directive (2013/33/EU) - Keelin Barry 12. Re-thinking exclusionary policies: the case of irregular migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe - Marie Mallet and Nicola Delvino
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Bristol University Press Three Roads to the Welfare State
Book SynopsisBryan Fanning traces the development of European welfare states in this accessible analysis of social change from the Industrial Revolution onwards. The book explores evolutions through the lens of three traditions, social democracy, Christian democracy and liberalism, with insights into the people and beliefs that influenced each.Table of Contents1. Three roads 2. The invention of laissez faire 3. Utopian socialism 4. Reform liberalism and technocracy 5. Catholic social thought versus modernity 6. The case for social democracy 7. Social engineering versus democracy 8. The rise of neoliberalism 9. European Christian democracy 10. Legacies
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Bristol University Press The Next Welfare State
Book SynopsisIn this book, Chris Pierson argues that we will need to think quite differently about the British welfare state after COVID-19. He looks back to the welfare state's origins and development as well as forwards, unearthing some surprising solutions in unexpected places.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Welfare in an age of austerity 2. The last social democratic welfare state 3. Back to the future, again 4. Future imperfect 5. COVID-19 and after Conclusion
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Bristol University Press A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare States
Book SynopsisAcademic experts review the impact of neoliberal politics and ideology on the status of care work in Nordic countries. They explore different understandings of the care crisis, the consequences for gender equality and the long-term sustainability of the Nordic welfare states.Table of Contents1 Introduction: A care crisis in the Nordic welfare states? - Hanne Marlene Dahl and Lise Lotte Hansen 2 The ‘care crisis’: its scientific framing and silences - Hanne Marlene Dahl 3 Fraser’s care crisis theory meets the Nordic welfare societies - Lise Lotte Hansen, Margunn Bjørnholt and Laura Horn 4 Crisis of care: a problem of economisation, of technologisation or of politics of care? - Anne Kovalainen 5 Deteriorating working conditions in elderly care: an invisible crisis of care? - Anneli Stranz 6 Managerialism as a failing response to the care crisis - Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania, Antero Olakivi, Minna Zechner and Lena Näre 7 ‘We are here for you’: care crisis and the (un)learning of good nursing - Carsten Juul Jensen and Steen Baagøe Nielsen 8 Professionalisation of social pedagogues under managerial control: caring for children in a time of care crisis - Steen Baagøe Nielsen 9 Raising quality in Norwegian early childhood centres: (re)producing the care crisis? - Birgitte Ljunggren 10 Conclusion: less caring and less gender- equal Nordic states - Lise Lotte Hansen and Hanne Marlene Dahl 11 Postscript: a care crisis in the time of COVID- 19 - Laura Horn, Carsten Juul Jensen and Birgitte Ljunggren
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Bristol University Press Uncovering Food Poverty in Ireland
Book SynopsisOffering a much-needed analysis of the overlooked crisis of food poverty in Ireland, this book brings together the complex picture emerging from interviews with users of food aid, explores the international landscape of food poverty and what action should be taken.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. An international perspective 3. Poverty and food: the Irish context 4. Interpreting the data 5. Pathways into food poverty 6. Pathways through food poverty 7. Investigating the policy drivers 8. Responses to food poverty 9. Conclusions
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Bristol University Press Philanthropic Response to Disasters
Book SynopsisThis book is a step toward curating our existing knowledge in the emerging field of 'disaster philanthropy'. It aims to build a robust base for future research, practice and public policy, whilst recognising that philanthropic responses to disasters are complex, conditional and subject to change.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Diana Leat, Susan D. Phillips and Alexandra Williamson 2. The Public’s Philanthropic Response to Disaster: Plus Ca Change? - Diana Leat 3. Disaster Fundraising: Readiness Matters - Wendy Scaife 4. Roles of Philanthropic Foundations as Funders and Distribution Agents in Disaster Response - Alexandra Williamson and Diana Leat 5. The Private Sector and Disasters: From Reactive Response to Disaster Resilience - Michael Moran, Graham Dwyer and Krystian Seibert 6. Fundraising, Grant Making and Regulatory Issues: Regulating Good in Bad Times - Myles McGregor-Lowndes 7. Doing Good Better: Public Policy for Disaster Philanthropy - Susan D. Phillips and Kristen Pue 8. Philanthropy’s Place in Community-Based Capacity Development for Disaster Resilience - Megan Conway 9. Nonprofit Collaboration and Coordination in Disaster Response: Lessons from the September 11th Recovery - Gregory R. Witkowski 10. The Promise and Reality of Philanthropy in Disasters - Jeffrey Schlegelmilch 11. Conclusions and Looking Forward - Alexandra Williamson, Diana Leat and Susan D. Phillips
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Bristol University Press Diversity and Welfare Provision
Book SynopsisThis book explores how diverse citizens experience welfare provision. It seeks to promote broader debate and address the silences in research and debate, particularly in relation under-researched groups, with the aim of developing a renewed call for analysis.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati 2. Citizenship and diversity: challenging the conceptual framework - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati 3. Widening the gaze: institutional racism, social policy and conceptual diversification - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory 4. Disabled self-employed people and the UK welfare state - Gerardo Arriaga Garcia and Eva Kašperová 5. Neoliberalism, division and austerity: precarity and hunger in the UK - Dave Beck and Hefin Gwilym 6. Racialised institutions in the UK welfare state - Temidayo Eseonu 7. Statutory exclusion from social security: experiences of migrants in the UK - Ilona Pinter 8. Disadvantaged, discriminated against and ignored: the experiences of Romani and Gypsy Travellers - Teresa Crew 9. ‘You mean, my theoretical rights?’ Exploring service shortfalls and administrative (in)justice among homeless trans people - Edith England 10. Diverse graduate trajectories in austere times: the case of young working- class women in the UK - Laura Bentley 11. Scroungers, shirkers and the sick: disability and welfare in the 21st century - Aimee Grant 12. Male domestic violence victims’ experience of healthcare services - Natalie Quinn-Walker 13. Conclusion - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory
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Bristol University Press States and Welfare States
Book SynopsisMost governments in the world have taken responsibility for social policy and elected to develop services in health, education and social security. This book explores the role of government and the state in the contemporary world and discusses views about government responsibility for social welfare services.Table of Contents1. Introduction: the state, and what it has become Part 1: On government 2. Government 3. Public Policy 4. The state and civil society 5. Global public policy Part 2: Salus populi suprema lex: the welfare of the people is the highest law 6. The scope of legitimate action 7. Welfare 8. Which people? 9. The commitment to welfare 10. Disputed principles 11. The duties of a government
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Bristol University Press Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South
Book SynopsisDrawing on international case studies from emerging economies and developing countries including South Africa, India, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Indonesia, China and Russia, this book examines the rise, nature and effectiveness of recent developments in social policy in the Global South.
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New York University Press The Poverty Industry
Book SynopsisThe shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social programs meant to support disadvantaged Americans Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding, leaving us with nursing homes and juvenile detention centers that sedate residents to reduce costs and maximize profit, local governments buying nursing homes to take the facilities' federal aid while the elderly languish with poor care, and counties hiring companies to mine the poor for additional funds in modern day debtor's prisTrade ReviewHatcher exposes an urgent paradox at the heart of American governance: why, and how, are states and localities teaming up with corporations to squeeze profits from societys poorest? The Poverty Industry breaks fresh ground. Every American who cares about the intersection of private profits and public justice should read this book, and wrestle with its arguments. Hatcher marshals years of legal experience and research towards fulfilling the muckrakers calling: 'to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.' But he also goes a step further. In The Poverty Industry, he combines a practitioners depth with a journalists flair for storytelling, to generate the first complete account of a little-known phenomenon that should be of interest to every reader with a conscience. -- Sarah Stillman, staff writer for The New YorkerEveryone today is skeptical of charitable organizations that spend too little of their money on charity. After reading this book, Americans are sure to become just as skeptical when state and local governments spend federal tax dollars. Hatchers tour-de-force spells out how federal government spending on services for the poor are being wasted. . . . No one who reads this book will ever feel the same about fiscal federalism. . . . Hatcher shows that a shocking amount of money is going to profit private businesses. Even worse, these businesses are teaching state and local governments how to scam the feds by taking money for one purpose and misusing it to help fill a hole in the state budget outside of the purposes for which the money is being given. An extremely important book. -- Martin Guggenheim, Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law, New York UniversityIn the tradition of great muckraking, Hatcher has exposed how states and localities have misdirected and misused public funds envisioned to benefit the most vulnerable among us. . . . Should be required reading for lawmakers and public officials, to remind them of their legal and moral responsibilities and to inspire them to stop these disturbing practices and direct these crucial resources to their rightful recipients. -- Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University[An] important book...Hatcher has done a great public service by shining a light on these massive distortions. * Stanford Social Innovation Review *In this meticulously researched book Hatcher, who has represented vulnerable people in court for years, including children in foster care, lifts the lid on a system that rather than helping the needy, systematically turns them into 'a source of revenue'. * The Guardian,Mary O'Hara *Daniel Hatcher meticulously explains the impact of deregulated privatisation on America's already residual care services. * Times Higher Education *Hatcher provides beautiful examples of unintended consequences of government policies: states rip off the federal government because the federal government has unwittingly incentivized the states to do exactly that. * Choice *A law professor at the University of Baltimore who has represented Maryland victims of such schemes, Hatcher presents a distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars. * Boston Review *Hatcher throws light on what can be hidden processes in human services budgeting, contracting, and implementation. The Poverty Industry walks through the evolution of legal doctrine regarding rights of vulnerable persons...The narrative provides compelling evidence that scholars, policymakers, and advocates should take a closer look at the political and business relationships shaping contracting decisions involving for-profit firms. * Political Science Quarterly *"Poverty is here painted as an industry that, like the defense industry, has an iron triangle. As explored by Hatcher, it depicts revenue maximization services and contingency fees that decrease the funds from the federal government that go to helping children and the poor. * Library Journal *The Poverty Industry exposes the venality of a startling number of public servants and private contractors who misdirect and misuse public funds intended to benefit those most in need. * Jewish Currents *
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Stanford University Press Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of
Book SynopsisCan there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly 'wild people' of regional and remote Australia. Tess Lea explores naturalized policy: policy unplugged, gone live, ramifying in everyday life, to show that it is policies that are wild, not the people being targeted. Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head to reveal a policy-driven world dominated by short term political interests and their erratic, irrational effects, and by the less obvious protection of long-term interests in resource extraction and the liberal settler lifestyles this sustains. Wild Policy argues policies are not about undoing the big causes of enduring inequality, and do not ameliorate harms terribly well either—without yielding all hope. Drawing on efforts across housing and infrastructure, resistant media-making, health, governance and land tenure battles in regional and remote Australia, Wild Policy looks at how the logics of intervention are formulated and what this reveals in answer to the question: why is it all so hard? Lea offers readers a layered, multi-relational approach called policy ecology to probe the related question, 'what is to be done?' Lea's case material will resonate with analysts across the world who deal with infrastructures, policy, technologies, mining, militarization, enduring colonial legacies, and the Anthropocene.Trade Review"By naming the arbitrary, anarchic nature of policy, Tess Lea turns the notion of unruliness on its head. The sheer effectiveness of the writing speaks to her ethnographic skill in delineating bureaucratic purpose: the result is a stunning re-visioning whose implications will reach far beyond what stimulated it." -- Marilyn Strathern * University of Cambridge *"Wild Policy offers an extraordinary contribution to the anthropology of policy, settler colonialism, and infrastructural inequality. Tess Lea's profound accomplishment rests on her sharp, ethnographically innovative account of policy as a milieu, its attention to the uneven ground of policy's materiality, and its appreciation for the work involved in wresting some good from policy's consequential detritus." -- Daniel Fisher * University of California, Berkeley *"Lea is an acute observer of the everyday practices that characterise the wild, disorderly, and strange cultural world of the interventionist settler-colonial state....this is courageous scholarship. Wild Policy's blast of originality compelled me." -- Eve Vincent * Sydney Review of Books *"[There] is a poetics in Lea's anthologising of policies, one that is profoundly moored in land and relations. The efficacy and power of Lea's work, be [it] destabilising or advocating, lies in their specific and relational mode of engagement with human and more-than-human worlds." -- Jamie Wang * Sydney Environment Institute *"Wild Policy provides a nuanced take on how policy is formulated and implemented in ways that exclude Indigenous experience, and seeks to rectify this through the interludes that present Indigenous knowledge apart from scholarly theorization." -- Claire Ross and Alexander Howes * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *
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SAGE Publications Inc The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling
Students, beginning and seasoned mental health professionals will be better prepared for diversity practice by this accessible, timely, provocative, and critical work, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling, Fifth Edition. Author Tracy Robinson-Wood demonstrates, through both the time honored tradition of storytelling and clinically-focused case studies, the process of patient and therapist transformation. This insightful, practical resource offers behavioral health professionals a nuanced view of diversity beyond race, culture, and ethnicity to include and interrogate intersectionality among race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, class, nationality, religion, and disability. With a keen focus on quality patient care, this important text aims to help professionals better serve patients across sources of diversity. Readers will recognize their roles and responsibilities as social justice agents of change, while identifying the ways in which dominant cultural beliefs and values furnish and perpetuate clients’ feelings of stuckness and inadequacy, in both the therapeutic alliance and within the larger society. This remarkable text reveres the lifelong commitment of using knowledge and skills as power for good to make a meaningful difference in people′s lives.
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FriesenPress Good Luck Frenchy: A Tale of RCMP Deception &
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Manchester University Press Refugees and the Violence of Welfare
Book SynopsisRefugees have moved into the spotlight of public debate in Europe and North America, where they are targeted by multiple welfare state interventions. This volume analyses the tensions that emerge within the strong welfare states of Northern Europe when faced with an increased immigration of protection-seeking people. Examining the encounter between refugees and the welfare states, this book explores the daily strategies and experiences of newly settled groups and the role of media discourses and welfare policies in shaping those experiences.Building on both textual analyses and ethnographic fieldwork in welfare institutions, asylum centres, and refugee communities, this volume provides an in-depth understanding of the complex realities faced by refugees: deterrence and categorisation, struggle and success, mobility and stagnation. As social phenomena, Northern Europe’s asylum systems and integration programmes must be understood in the context of the bureaucratisation of everyday life.Trade Review'This collection analysing the entanglements of representation, governance and risk when immigration/asylum policy meets welfare states is a significant development in migration studies. Careful empirical work and fascinating analysis exposes bureaucratic violence. A must read for those interested in all areas of state policy.'Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, University of Bristol'Illuminating the complex and contradictory ways in which Northern European states evoked their welfare systems as a rationale for, and means of, controlling, disciplining and managing the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’, this volume offers an important contribution to research on the construction of refugeeness and how this is experienced by refugees.'Karen Fog Olwig, Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen -- .Table of Contents1 Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe: an introduction – Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann Part I: Governing refugees2 Social class, economic capital and the Swedish, German and Danish asylum systems – Martin Joormann3 Lesson for the future or threat to sovereignty? Contesting the meaning of the 2015 refugee crisis in Sweden – Admir Skodo4 Representations of the refugee Crisis in Denmark: deterrence polices and refugee strategies – Martin Bak Jørgensen5 Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden – Annika LindbergPart II: Disciplining refugees6 Images of crisis and the crisis of images: a visual analysis of four frames of representation of ‘refugeness’ in Swedish newspapers – Jelena Jovicic 7 Media constructions of the refugee crisis in Sweden: institutions and the challenges of refugee governance – Dalia Abdelhady8 (De-)legitimation of migration: a critical study of social media discourses – Marie Sundström and Hedvig ObeniusPart III: The Meaning of refugeeness9 Living bureaucratization: young Palestinian men encountering a Swedish introductory program for refugees – Nina Gren10 Aspiration, appreciation, and frustration: Syrian asylum seekers and bureaucracy in Germany – Wendy Pearlman11 The trauma of waiting: understanding the violence of the benevolent welfare state – Nerina Weiss12 Bureaucratised banality: asylum and immobility in Britain, Denmark and Sweden – Victoria Canning
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IOS Press The Road Ahead
Book SynopsisSuccessful transition from school to adult life has always been difficult for people with disabilities, especially in the area of employment. The vast majority of people with disabilities are either unemployed or underemployed with low wages and few benefits, and many governments are struggling to find a way of providing employment and benefits to people with disabilities without creating disincentives to work. This book provides strategies and ideas for improving the lives of people with disabilities, exploring new ways of enabling a successful transition to an integrated adult working life by providing effective instruction and support. Following an introduction which outlines the importance of transition services and meaningful outcomes, topics covered in the remaining chapters include: person centered transition planning; enhancing competence and independence; employment assessment and career development; collaboration between agencies for a seamless transition; independent living
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Gatekeeper Press The Nasty Women Project: Voices from the
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BenBella Books The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience,
Book SynopsisImagine missing school or work every month because you lacked proper menstrual supplies. How many days per year would you lose in education and wages simply because you got your period? What if no one ever taught you about menstruation, or worse - if menstrual taboos and myths made you feel ashamed of your body? In 2008, Celeste Mergens was working with an overcrowded orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, when she learned that menstruating girls sat on cardboard in their rooms for several days each month. This set into motion a simple idea - combining a washable, long-lasting pad with taboo-breaking education - that became a catalyst for an unlikely global movement for equity. Written in short, evocative chapters, The Power of Days tells the story of Mergens’s quest to rally a global response to elevate menstrual health, increase universal access to menstrual supplies, shatter stigma through education, and advocate for global policy change. Raised in poverty by a mentally ill parent, Mergens learned early on that building the life she wanted would take equal parts determination and humility, traits that led her to create the kinds of inclusive conversations and solutions she is known for around the globe. The challenges Mergens faced and the lessons she learned, personally and professionally, and the triumphs and resourcefulness of leaders all over the globe are illuminating to all who wish to make a difference and create a more equitable world. Today, Days for Girls reaches more than 2.6 million women and girls in 145 countries. The organisation’s impact continues to grow, proving that small changes can create big shifts. This journey to overcome one of the world’s most prevalent taboos is proof that no divide is impossible to bridge.
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Orpen Press Hanged If You Do...: Reflections from a Career in
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Verso Books Philosophy of Care
Book SynopsisOur current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is predominantly occupied by forms of care - medical care, child care, agriculture, industrial maintenance and so on. We have a responsibility to care for our own bodies, but here again our culture tends to thematize the bodies of desire and to ignore the bodies of care - ill bodies in need of self-care and social care. But the discussion of care has a long philosophical tradition. The book retraces some episodes of this tradition - beginning with Plato and ending with Alexander Bogdanov through Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille and many others. The central question discussed is: who should be the subject of care? Should I care for myself or trust the others, the system, the institutions? Here, the concept of the self-care becomes a revolutionary principle that confronts the individual with the dominating mechanisms of control.Trade ReviewThe Covid pandemic and other ongoing crises made us all aware that the work of care in all its forms - healthcare, care for the old, care for the victims of natural and social catastrophes, up to self-care - is the type of work that defines our epoch. However, this notion is not exempt from ideological mystifications: from times immemorial, the rich and powerful justify their wealth and power by claiming they care for the needy. Groys analyzes the notion (and practice) of care in all its dimensions, from authentic solidarity to devious manipulations and New Age spiritualist self-care. Philosophy of Care is a book for everyone who wants to understand where we are today and why we are in such a mess. in short, it is a book for everyone. -- Slavoj ZizekBoris Groys has deepened the intellectual project of Art History in ways that will be felt for decades to come. With The Philosophy of Care, he expands and focuses the question of care to encompass the physical and the symbolic, the self and the other, value and life, recognition and recovery. The future is defined by the fragility of life --individual life, collective life and planetary life-- and the omnipresence of death. Groys offers us a new version of 'the common task' that binds us all. -- Benjamin Bratton
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Child Protection Systems in the United Kingdom: A
Book SynopsisChild protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice. This authoritative book compares UK child protection systems with other systems world-wide as well as scrutinising and comparing the systems in different parts of the UK. Reflecting on the impact of devolution, the authors consider and critically analyse the way child protection systems are being developed, thought about and put into practice in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. An intra-country comparative approach is applied to the main features making up child protection including: policy frameworks, inter-agency guidance, the role of Local Safeguarding Children Boards and Area Child Protection Committees, child deaths and Serious Case Review processes, and vetting and barring legislation and systems. The authors also consider the unique position occupied by England and explore future directions for child protection across the UK.This important book will be of considerable interest to child welfare policy makers, academics, researchers, practitioners and students.Trade ReviewVery impressive book. It is certainly a book that should be read by those who are involved in the studying of child protection or involved in its practice... It is a very readable book took with the text written in a way that allows the reader to follow the logic of the authors. I certainly recommend its reading. -- Journal of Social Welfare & Family LawThe book... sets out how, despite ever deepening devolution, England continues to set the context within which the developed nations operate. In essence, apart from the Scottish children hearings system, there is little to differentiate child protection policy and practice across the UK, though this may well change. As with all of Nigel Parton's work, this is an interesting and informative read. -- Professional Social Work.It aims to provide insights that will help safeguard vulnerable children from abuse and neglect. (This) well-written book provides significant insights into selected child protection systems around the world... not only for policy makers by also for academics, researchers, child protection workers, and students. -- Bernadette J Saunders, Department of Social Work, Monash University, Australia * International Journal of Children's Rights *Table of Contents1. Introduction: About this Book. Part 1. Introduction and Context. 2. Contexts and Drivers of Policy Change in Child Protection across the UK. 3. Child Protection across the UK in an International Context. 4. Learning by Comparing: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Conducting Comparative Research. Part 2. Child Protection Processes and Structures. 5. Policies and Procedures to Protect Children across the UK. 6. Managing Individual Cases where there are Child Protection Concerns. 7. Assessment Frameworks. 8. Child Death Review Processes. 9. Child Protection and Offender Management Systems across the UK.10. Summary and Conclusion: Child Protection across the UK. Appendix. References. Index.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Creating Person-Centred Organisations: Strategies
Book SynopsisPerson-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the organisation, as well as organisational processes, culture and managing change. Drawing on the pioneering work of the social care charity United Response, the authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to enable organisations within health, social care and the voluntary sector to use person-centred thinking tools and approaches to move towards becoming person-centred organisations.This is an essential guide for managers and leaders within private, statutory and voluntary organisations.Stephen Stirk is Director of Human Resources at the social care charity United Response. He has had over 30 years' experience in human resources, organisation development and line management positions, including specialism in organisation design and development with GlaxoSmithKline. Helen Sanderson is Director of Helen Sanderson Associates. She has written extensively on person-centred thinking, planning, community building and Individual Service Funds. She has worked with a range of providers to enable them to deliver more personalised services. She is co-author (with Jaimee Lewis) of A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation: Person-Centred Practice in Health and Social Care (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).Trade ReviewThe book aims to define what person-centred practice means in organisation which aspire to deliver personalised services... The checklists in each chapter describe both the detail of what we expect to see in a person-centred organisation and they also give readers an opportunity to celebrate areas of responsibility that are being delivered well and to think about areas where development might occur... This person-centred approach on "one-to-one", focuses on there being opportunities for appreciation and feedback and reflection on progress and learning and an opportunity for shared problem-solving... Person-centred practices enable teams to deliver, at their best, in ways that work for everyone... The concluding chapter summarises the book so well that it alone could be used as the principles of good practice... If people working in health and social care use the tools and techniques provided by Stephen Stirk and Helen Sanderson, then they will have a multitude of options to take their organisation forward to become truly person-centred. -- European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare (EJPCH)It is a treasure-trove of good ideas which social workers will find useful in their day-to-day practice - for example, person-centred reviews and guidance on Individual Service Funds. -- Professional Social WorkThe unique person-centered approach described in the book is a very welcome contribution to reference manuals for people working in mental health services. Every condition is very thoroughly examined with remarkable insight into living with and seeking solutions to psychological disorders in collaboration with mental health practitioners. The strength of the insights is that it addresses behavioural aspects of mental illness in a non-judgemental and sensitive way. The discussions of each disorder provide excellent and thoughtful explanations of living with mental imbalances... The book contains no quick fixes, but rather concentrates on the growth and development of individuals collaborating with mental health providers in person-centered relationships. -- The International Journal of Person Centered MedicineThe book is (...) wonderfully rich in ideas... There is much in the 300-plus pages of this book to help you, and it is well worth buying as a comprehensive toolkit. -- Caring TimesStirk and Sanderson have really brought to life the concept of personalisation in its more holistic form. Their systemic analysis of what constitutes a person-centred organisation incorporates familiar theory about managing change, valuing people and remaining committed to the outcomes determined by service users and the community themselves. It is refreshing to see how the practical realities of this journey are tangible and the authors make it clear that being person-centred is more than just empty rhetoric. Based on personal experience, expertise and evaluation, I found the advice, tips and recommendations invaluable. This book is essential for leaders at all levels of the organisation and for those interested in fostering genuine participation in developing and delivering services from the bottom up! -- Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Middlesex University and co- author of How to Become a Better Manager in Social Work and Social Care: Essential Skills for Managing CareTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. List of Figures. Part 1. 1. Person-centred Organisations. 2. Person-centred Practices and Conventional Organisation Development. Part 2. 3. Vision, Mission, Values and Strategy. 4. Organisation Design. 5. Working Together. 6. Creating a Person-centred Culture. 7. Leadership. 8. Human Resources. 9. Person-centred Team Working. 10. Enabling Risk. 11. Measuring and Improving Quality. 12. Managing Change. 13. Conclusion. Appendix 1. Progress for Providers. Appendix 2. Progress for Providers for Managers. Endnotes. About the Authors. Index.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers The Changing Role of Social Care
Book SynopsisFocusing on the enormous organisational and cultural changes that local authority social services have undergone since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, this volume provides an overview of the structure and function of social care at practice, management and policy levels. It contains contributions from leading academics, researchers and practitioners in the UK, and also includes chapters on the experiences across the United Kingdom and abroad. The contributors examine the impact and effectiveness of key shifts in:the weighting of responsibility of central and local governmentwho the purchasers and providers of social care arethe interaction between social services and other agenciesthe relationship between voluntary and statutory sectorsthe involvement of users and carers in service design and provision.They assess the significance of the breakdown of the traditional distinctions and roles underlying social care, and lay the foundations for effective and coordinated future policy, practice and research. With the publication of the Labour Government's White Paper Modernising Social Services, the future of social care is set for yet more upheaval. This volume will provide an indispensable overview of the evolution and destiny of local authority social services for students, practitioners and managers.Trade ReviewA comprehensive and compelling account of the development of social care policy and provision with a particular emphasis on the last decade... As it is there is so much to admire and recommend. It is a DipSW or social policy student's paradise, replete with evidence from research, lucidly showing the main threads of government policy and presenting information with accessible graphs and charts and a collective style which is never less than clear and resonant. Its topicality will also encourage practitioners to reflect on real issues of role and relationships. -- Journal of Interprofessional CareTable of Contents1. Introduction and Overview, Bob Hudson, Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. Part One: The Changing Role of Social Care. 2. New Approaches to Local Governance, John Stewart, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham. 3. Changes in the Statutory Sector. Nirmala Rao, Goldsmith's College, University of London. 4. Changes in the Private Sector, Brian Hardy and Gerald Wistow, Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. 5. Changes in the Voluntary Sector, Jeremy Kendall, London School of Economics. 6. Human Resources in Social Care, Sue Balloch, National Institute for Social Work. 7. The Changing Role of Users and Carers, Julia Twigg, University of Kent. Part Two: Working Across Boundaries. 8. Social Care and Housing, Murray Hawtin, Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University. 9. Social Care and Social Security, Geoff Fimister, Principal Welfare Rights Officer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council. 10. Central - Local Relations: The Changing Balance of Direction vs Discretion in Social Care, Melanie Henwood, Independent Policy Analyst and Visiting Fellow, Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. Part Three: Comparative Perspectives. 11. UK Variations in Social Care, Alison Petch, University of Glasgow. 12. Who Pays? Who Provides? Towards a Comparative Approach to the Study of Social Care, Michael Hill, Goldsmith's College, University of London. 13.Conclusion: `Modernising Social Services': A Blueprint for the New Millennium? Bob Hudson. Index.
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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Investor Politics: New Force Transform American
Book Synopsis The most explosive economic and political force of the last decade of the twentieth century has been the growth of personal investment. About half of all Americans now own stocks and bonds through IRAs, 401(k)s, and other financial devices. Polls show that personal investment in corporations changes one’s view of the economy, world events, and public policy toward taxes, government spending, regulation, and protectionism. Much of the growth of personal investing has been facilitated by innovations in the financial services and information technology arena—such as mutual funds and online trading—as well as accidental public policies creating tax-deferred employee benefits and personal investment vehicles. This book represents an attempt to sketch out, across a host of public policy topics, a realistic strategy for shrinking the welfare state. To gain a clear understanding of the investor politics of the twenty-first century, the book looks backward to human history and even to prehistory to examine the origins of capital formation. As the facts demonstrate, politics has always been intimately linked with investment, understood in the broadest sense of the word. “Over the next few decades, Americans must stop looking to Washington as a source of the money they need to take care of themselves—there is no alternative. They will need instead to look to investment and wealth creation on Wall Street and Main Street as the guarantors of their retirement security, their health security, their job security, and their children’s futures.” —from the introduction Table of Contents Introduction / 1 1. A Short History of Saving and Investment / 10 2. American Political Realignment and the Origins of Welfare / 35 3. Wall Street and the Second Economic Revolution / 54 4. Depression and the New Deal / 86 5. The Great Social Security Debate / 110 6. The New Health-Care Imperative / 142 7. Houses, Highways, and Physical Capital 8. Education, Training, and Human Capital / 217 9. The Savings Strategy for Shrinking the Welfare State / 258 Conclusion / 277 Notes / 285 Index / 303
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Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd The Restorative Resilience Model of Supervision:
Book SynopsisThe programme was designed to support professionals to process their workplace experiences and support them to build resilience levels to ensure they had future coping strategies beyond the initial life of the supervision sessions. The model of restorative resilience supervision was first developed in response to the emotional demands of midwives, doctors and nurses caring for families who had experienced miscarriage and stillbirth.Table of ContentsContent Includes: Introduction Workplace stress Vulnerability of the helping professions Resilience and protective factors Why restorative resilience supervision? Key elements of the model Case studies
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Chronos Publishing Who Cares
Book SynopsisThis book can help anyone caring for a loved one. It gives practical know-how, guiding you to make the right choices to safeguard your own health and wellbeing whilst caring. There are so many ways that you can make positive changes to your daily life - the smallest of tweaks can make thebiggest of differences.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG White People and Black Lives Matter: Ignorance,
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice. It is a philosophical self-reflection on the ways in which ‘white’ reactions to Black Lives Matter stand in the way of the movement’s important work. It probes reactions which often prevent white people from according to black activists the full range of human emotion and expression, including joy, anger, mourning, and political action. Johanna C. Luttrell encourages different conceptions of empathy and impartiality specific to social movements for racial justice, and addresses objections to identity politics.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Getting my People 1.1 Whiteness and Self-Reflection 1.2 “We” White People: On the Possibility of Collective Identity 1.3 The Hate that we see Might be our Own: Distinguishing Black Anger from White Hate Chapter 2: Empathy and Racial Justice: Redefining Impartiality in Response to Social Movements 2.1 White Empathy and Black Lives Matter 2.2 Perspectives Against ‘Just Empathy’ 2.3 Managing Empathy Through Colorblindness 2.4 Empathy and Racial Justice: A Different Idea of Impartiality Chapter 3: How White People Refuse to Understand Black Mourning 3.1 White Responses to Black-led Political Mourning 3.2 Conservative Responses to Black Mourning: Militarization, Gas-lighting, Tone-policing 3.3 Liberal Responses to Black Mourning: Voyeurism and Appropriation 3.4 Recognizing Agency, Giving up the Idealized Victim 3.5 Mourning’s Potential: Undoing the Political Order in Antigone and the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 4: Respecting Black Lives Matter as Arendtian Political Action 4.1 How Political Action is Different from Scientific Inquiry 4.2 Political Action as Unprecedented 4.3 Political Action as Revelatory 4.4 Political Action as Knowledge-Creating 4.5 Arendt’s Failure to Respect Black-Led Social Movements as Political Action Chapter 5: Conclusion 5.1 Interrogating Allyship 5.2 Answering Objections to Identity Politics 5.3 White Feminism and Allyship 5.4 A Positive Prescription for Empathy?
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Working with Assumptions in International Development Program Evaluation: With a Foreword by Michael Bamberger
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Extended Working Life Policies: International Gender and Health Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature; continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical perspectives; includes a section on available data and indicators; followed by 25 very concise and unique country reports that highlight the main extended working life (EWL) research findings and policy trajectories at the national level. It identifies future directions for research and addresses issues associated with effective policy-making. This volume fills an important gap in the knowledge of the consequences of EWL and it will be an invaluable source for both researchers and policy makers. Table of ContentsPart I. Introductory Section.- Chapter 1. Empirical and Policy Landscape; Jim Ogg and Martina Rasticova.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives; Clary Krekula, Sarah Vickerstaff.- Chapter 3. Data Sources and Issues; Michaela Gstrein and Tindara Addaboo.- Part II. Country Reports.- Chapter 4. Albania.- Chapter 5. Austria.- Chapter 6. Belgium.- Chapter 7. Bulgaria.- Chapter 8. Chile.- Chapter 9. Croatia.- Chapter 10. Cyprus.- Chapter 11. Czech Republic.- Chapter 12. Finland.-Chapter 13. France.- Chapter 14. Germany.- Chapter 15. Greece.- Chapter 16. Ireland.- Chapter 17. Israel.- Chapter 18. Italy.- Chapter 19. Lithuania.- Chapter 20. Netherlands.- Chapter 21. New Zealand.- Chapter 22. Poland.- Chapter 23. Portugal.- Chapter 24. Romania.- Chapter 25. Serbia.- Chapter 26. Spain.- Chapter 27. Sweden.- Chapter 28. United Kingdom.- Chapter 29. United States.- Part III. Future Directions.- Chapter 30. Policy Tool-Kits; Jonas Radl and Nata Duvvury. - Chapter 31. Conclusion: Future Directions: Debra Street and Aine Ni Leime.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Connections in the Clinic: Relational Narratives
Book SynopsisThis book assembles many of the foremost writers and clinicians in the field of team-based primary care to share their own relational reflections. It features narratives from fields such as integrated behavioral health, integrated primary care, primary care behavioral health, medical family therapy, health psychology, primary care psychology, and clinical social work. The key focus of the chapters are the relationships that are formed during primary care delivery. The book is organized into six core chapters: Family of Origin, Teachers and Mentors, Our Patients and Ourselves, Colleagues and Collaborators, Clinician as Patient, and Death and Loss. Each chapter contains a variety of styles and formats of narrative medicine, including personal reflections, story-telling, and poetry. Connections in the Clinic will be of interest to a wide audience of clinicians and educators dedicated to a reflective or story-telling approach to healing.Trade Review“For the new-to-the-profession student or resident, the book serves as a preview and road map to anticipated experiences and emotions. For the seasoned provider, the narratives undoubtedly will trigger memories of similar personal and professional experiences. … If storytelling encourages educators to bring the humanity into the teaching of medicine, does it not also remind us of our own humanity and inherent vulnerabilities? Connections in the Clinic succeeds in both.” (Franklin Berkey, Family Medicine, Vol. 55 (4), 2023)Table of Contentshapter 1. Family of Origin 1.1 Colleen Fogarty 1.2 John Spangler 1.3 Alexandra Hulst 1.4 Julia Sager (pen name) 1.5 Deb Taylor 1.6 Michelle Keating 1.7 Paul Simmons 1.8 Laurie Ivey 1.9 Karen Wyatt 1.10 Pam Webber 1.11 Randall Reitz 1.12 Juli Larsen Chapter 2. Teachers and Mentors 2.1 Colleen Fogarty 2.2 Cammy Froude 2.3 Jeff Ring 2.4 AJ Jayabarathan 2.5 Dave Seaburn 2.6 John Spangler 2.7 Andy Valeras 2.8 Kathryn Fraser and Claudia Allen 2.9 Laura E. Sudano and Florencia Lebensohn-Chialvo 2.10 Michael Talamantes and John Scheid 2.11 Juli Larsen Chapter 3. Our Patients and Ourselves 3.1 Colleen Fogarty 3.2 Amy Davis and Lucy Graham 3.3 Alice Lu 3.4 Jennifer Hodgson 3.5 Mark Knudson 3.6 Jennifer Ayres 3.7 Kathryn Hart 3.8 Justin McCarthy 3.9 Arnold Goldberg 3.10 Juli Larsen Chapter 4. Colleagues and Collaborators 4.1 Colleen Fogarty 4.2 Amy Romain and Amy Odom 4.3 Glenda Mutinda 4.4 Mike Olson and Catalina Triana 4.5 Mary Talen 4.6 Alan Lorenz and Lisa Black 4.7 Christine Runyan 4.8 David Conway 4.9 Sarah Gerrish 4.10 Angela Lamson 4.11 Jackie Williams-Reade 4.12 Juli Larsen Chapter 5. Clinician as Patient 5.1 Colleen Fogarty 5.2 Aimee Valeras 5.3 Kathryn Hart 5.4 Rachel Hughes 5.5 Tai Mendenhall 5.6 Grace Wilson and Jonathan Wilson 5.7 Samantha Monson 5.8 Jamie Banker 5.9 Tania Riosvelasco 5.10 Cormac O’Donovan 5.11 Larry Mauksch 5.12 Juli Larsen Chapter 6. Death and Loss 6.1 Colleen Fogarty 6.2 Sabrina Mitchell 6.3 Keith Dickerson 6.4 Sally Stratford 6.5 Deborah Edberg 6.6 Paul Simmons 6.7 Stephen Mitchell 6.8 Julie Mayer 6.9 Karlynn Sievers 6.10 Randall Reitz 6.11 Juli Larsen
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Outcomes of Open Adoption from Care: An
Book SynopsisThis Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of open adoption from care in Australia. It contributes to the international debate concerning the advantages and disadvantages of face-to-face post adoption contact with birth families.The chapters assess whether adoption provides a better chance of permanence and more positive outcomes than long-term foster care for abused and neglected children in care who cannot safely return to their birth families. They also explore whether open adoption can avoid some of the detrimental consequences of past policies in which adoption was shrouded in secrecy and children frequently grew up with a conflicted sense of identity. The book will appeal to policy makers, practitioners and students of social policy, social work, the law, psychology and psychiatry. It should also be of interest to adult adoptees and adoptive parents, whose experiences it reflects. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. Part One: Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents and Children When They Entered their Adoptive Homes.- Chapter 2. Issues Facing the Birth Parents and their Implications for Open Adoption. - Chapter 3. The Children.- Chapter 4. The Adoptive Parents.- Part 2: Outcomes of Open Adoption From Care.- Chapter 5. Permanence.- Chapter 6. Post-Adoption Contact and Relationships with Birth Family Members.- Chapter 7. Progress After Placement.- Chapter 8. Adult Outcomes.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Implications for Policy and Practice.
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Springer International Publishing AG Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Higher Education: Experiences, Practices, and Possibilities
Book SynopsisThis book explores how academic leaders throughout higher education experience and practice care and the ethics of care. Drawing on a narrative inquiry study of experiences and practices of feminist care ethics in higher education leadership, Schultz counters academic norms, including expectations of competition and criticism across all activities, by uncovering the common experiences of academic leaders who intentionally adopt practices guided by an ethics of care and relationality. Within the context of institutions of higher education responding to present-day social movements, the book highlights how practices of care-centered leadership can enable change that begins on campus and reaches outwards to positively impact the community.Table of ContentsPart I Introduction. 1 Coming to Care Ethics in Higher Education. Theme and Scope. Coming to a Research Puzzle: A Narrative Beginning. Foregrounding Personal Justifications. Feminist Care Ethics as a Theoretical Framework. My Earliest Stories Linking Care and Higher Education. Noddings’s Language of Care. Using Narrative Inquiry to Understand Leadership Experiences and Practices. Narrative Inquiry’s Methodological Commitments. Research Design Summary. Methodological Characteristics and Considerations. Towards an Understanding of Experiences, Practices, and Possibilities. References. 2 Care Ethics that Matter. Practical Justifications. Contextualizing Change. Higher Education in Neoliberal Times. Higher Education Leadership. Social Justifications. Care in Education. Care in Higher Education. Tensions. (En)Countering the First Tension: Organizations as Obstacles to Care. (En)Countering the Second Tension: Leadership as a Barrier to Care. (En)Countering the Third Tension: Gendered Care and Caring. Beginning to Understand Care Ethics in Higher Education Leadership. References. Part II Stories of Experiences and Practices of Care-Centered Leadership. 3 Beth. Introducing Beth. Beginning in the Middle. Where Care Comes From. Beginning Again. Weaving Care and Self-Care. As Care Seeks and (Sometimes) Finds Visibility. Being Cared For: Friendship and Feeling Seen. Caring into the Future. References. 4 Lynn. Introducing Lynn. Connecting. Journeying Towards Leadership. Embracing Leadership. Care in Her Midst. The Relational Nature of Care. Caring for the Work, Too. Tending to Tensions, Too. The Whole Self-Caring. Self-Care and Rest. Leaning into the Future. Postscript. Reference. 5 Abby. Introducing Abby. Learning to Show Up, to Participate, and to Listen. Learning to “Think on My Feet”. “There Was No Care”. Enacting Feminist Care and Care Ethics. Deep Listening. Being Genuine. Caring and Chairing in Neoliberal Times. Enabling Care, Now and into the Future. Being Surrounded by Care. Lighting the Way. References. 6 Genevieve. Introducing Genevieve. Beginnings. The Work of Care. The Hard Work of the Work of Care. Receiving Care. An Arc of Care and Not Care. Creating Care. Research as Self-Care. Making Care Visible. Feeling Cared for as a Leader. Caring and Chairing. Seeing Care. Coda. Reference. Part III Towards Care-Centered Leadership in Higher Education. 7 Resonant Threads. Thinking with Resonant Threads. Situating the Writing of the Resonant Threads. Awakening to Three Resonant Threads. Learning to Care: Awakening to Where Care Comes From. Experiences of Care from Mentors. Familial Experiences of Care. With the Threads of This Resonance. The Challenge of Care: Caring in Challenging Moments and Times. The Limits of Care: Tensions in Challenging Moments. The Labor of Care: Risking the Work of Care in Challenging Times. With the Threads of This Resonance. Care for the Self: A Condition of Care. Care for the Self with Movement and Music. Care for the Self with Research and Writing. Care for the Self with Rest and Recalibration. With the Threads of This Resonance. References. 8 Conclusion: Care-Centered Leadership in Our Midst. Emerging Visibility of Care-Centered Leadership. Making Care in Leadership in Higher Education Visible. Revisiting Social, Practical, and Personal Justifications: Implications and Possibilities. Revisiting Social Justifications: Social and Theoretical Implications and Possibilities. Revisiting Practical Justifications: Practical Implications and Possibilities. Revisiting Personal Justifications: Implications and What I Will Remember. References. Epilogue: Leading with Feminist Care Ethics in Times of Change.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Global
Book SynopsisThis book provides an application of the concepts and recommendations of The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity Report, a Consensus Study from the US National Academy of Medicine. It offers complementary guidance through tools, tips, examples and storytelling. As such this book, written by prominent international academics and nurse practitioners, offers program and policy recommendations for health equity. As the world’s largest and most trusted workforce, nurses are in a key position thus must step up to help address these inequities now. The recent pandemic has laid bare these inequities in ways that are stark and demanding of our attention. This book offers program and policy recommendations, along with case studies, designed to empower nurses to understand and ACT to improve health equity. This text provides nurses an opportunity to clearly see the need for an equitable, just, and fair society. There has never been a more urgent call to action. Table of ContentsForeword1. The Goal for 2030: Health Equity2. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Global Applications to Advance Health Equity3. Diversifying the Nursing Workforce 4. Strengthen and Protect Nurses Well-being5. Transforming Nursing Education: The Hong Kong Experience.6. Strengthening Nursing Education to Address Social Determinants of Health: Systems Leadership7. Capitalizing on Nurses’ Potential to Improve Consumers’ Access to Care8. Fully Support Nurses by Designing Better Payment Models9. The Nurse’s Role in Achieving Health Equity in Disasters and Public Health Emergencies in Asia10. Enabling Techquity in Nursing Practice: Informatics, Technology, and Innovation11. Creating a Shared Agenda to Achieve Health Equity12. Part 1: Research in Health Equity: Building the Evidence Base12. Part 2: Research in Health Equity: Building the Evidence Base13. Concluding Remarks: The Nurses’ Role in Achieving Health Equity Through Multisector Collaboration and Workforce DiversityAfterword
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Springer International Publishing AG Social Work and Social Policy Transformations in
Book Synopsisand provide indications about the future perspectives of social policy and social service provision. Social Work and Social Policy Transformations in Central and Southeast Europe addresses the scarcity of literature on social policy and social work in this region.
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Springer International Publishing AG Systemic Racism in the United States: Scaffolding
Book Synopsis"Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.S. – with a focus on social construction, oppression, scaffolding, and institutional web – providing insight into racist thought and behavior that construct and mark people of color as 'a problem.' […] I highly recommend this book for those who are engaged in working to combat domination and racism at the local, national, and global levels."-Gary Bailey, DHL, MSW, ACSW, Professor of Practice, Director of Urban Leadership Program, Simmons College School of Social WorkThis important volume provides a powerful overview of racism in the United States: what it is, how it works, and the social, cultural, and institutional structures that have evolved to keep it in place. It dissects the rise of legalized discrimination against four major racial groups (First Nations, Africans, Mexicans, and Chinese) and its perpetuation as it affects these groups and new immigrants today. The book’s scaffolding framework—which takes in institutions from the government to our educational systems—explains why racism remains in place despite waves of social change. At the same time, authors describe social justice responses being used to erode racism in its most familiar forms, and at its roots. This timely resource: Examines the sociology of discrimination as a constant in daily life. Traces the history of the legalization of racism in the United States. Locates key manifestations of racism in the American psyche. Links racism to other forms of discrimination. Identifies the interlocking components of institutionalized racism. Offers contemporary examples of resistance to racism. A forceful synthesis of history and social theory, Systemic Racism in the United States is vital reading for practitioners and other professionals in fields related to human rights, social policy, and psychology. And as a classroom text, it challenges its readers to deepen their understanding of both historical process and current developments. Table of ContentsRacial Scaffolding: Conceptual Overview.- Discrimination.- Institutional Legalization of Racism: Exploitation of the Core Groups.- Immigration through the Lens of Systemic Racism.- The Infrastructure of Racism: The Psychic Dimension.- The Infrastructure of Racism: The Institutional Dimensions.- Intersectionality: The Linkage of Racism with Other Forms of Discrimination.- Racism and Social Justice.- Deconstruction of Racism.
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Springer International Publishing AG Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society: Rights, Belonging, Intimate Life and Spatiality
Book SynopsisThis edited collection presents the concept of lived citizenship as a fruitful avenue for exploring the role played by social work practices in the lives of people in vulnerable positions. The book centres on the everyday experiences through which people practice, negotiate, understand and feel their citizenship. The authors offer both empirical analyses of how social work influences the rights, obligations, identities and belongings of children, homeless people, migrants, ethnic minorities, and young people with mental disabilities; and a theoretical framework for analysing the complexities of social work.Drawing on the notion of intimate citizenship and an understanding of citizenship as socio-spatial, the theoretical framework addresses the challenges of enhancing the agency of social work clients and of promoting inclusive citizenship, and how these challenges are shaped by emotions, affect, rationality, materiality, power relations, policies and managerial strategies. Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including social policy and social work. Table of Contents1. Introduction; Hanne Warming and Kristian Fahnøe.- 2. Citizenship on the edge: homeless outreach and the city; Tom Hall.- 3. Spaces of surveillance and citizenship learning opportunities in a 24-hour care institution; Michael Christensen.- 4. The role of social work practice and policy for the lived citizenship of young people with psychological disorder; Hanne Warming.- 5. Exploring norms about citizenship in stories of young people with “psychological vulnerabilities; Manon Lavaud.- 6. Social repair of relations: Rights and belonging in outreach work with homeless people; Kristian Fahnøe.- 7. For a pragmatic approach of children’s citizenship: the case of school social work in France; Pascale Garnier.- 9. From objects of care to citizens – young carers’ citizenship; Anne Wihstutz.- 10. Migrant Women’s Intimate Struggles and Lived Citizenship. Experiences from Southern Europe; Daniela Cherubini.- 11. Geo-politics and Citizenship: Why geography matters in defining social citizenship rights of Canadian Muslim youth; Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha.- 12. Conclusion; Kristian Fahnøe and Hanne Warming.
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Springer International Publishing AG Understanding Children in Foster Care: Identifying and addressing what children learn from maltreatment
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG History of Social Law in Germany
Book SynopsisThe sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany. The book explains the origins since the medieval times, but concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, especially on the introduction of the social insurance 1881-1889, of the expansion of the system in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazi-System and after World War II in the FRG and the GDR. The system of social welfare in Germany is one of the pillars of economic stability.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Social Protection in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern State: Alms, Poor Relief, Care, Social Help.- Social Policy in the Empire: The Insurance Solution.- The First World War.- The Weimar Republic.- The Nazi State.- The Post-War Period, the Federal Republic, and the German Democratic Republic.- Social Law as a Scientific Discipline.- Europeanization of Social Law.- Long Term Perspectives for Social Protection.- References.- Index.
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