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Critical Social Policy
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  • Book Review: Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of
           Family-Friendly, Rights by Emily Grabham

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      Authors: Donna Baines
      Pages: 180 - 181
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 180-181, February 2023.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-01-14T08:00:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261a
      Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023)
       
  • Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington
           Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett

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      Authors: Cynthia Okpokiri
      Pages: 182 - 184
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-184, February 2023.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-01-14T08:00:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261b
      Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023)
       
  • Book Review: The Anti-Racist Social Worker: Stories of Activism by Social
           Care Professionals and Allied Health Professionals by Tanya Moore and
           Glory Simango

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      Authors: Lisa Warwick
      Pages: 184 - 185
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 184-185, February 2023.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-01-14T08:00:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261c
      Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023)
       
  • Book Review: Outlanders: Hidden Narratives from Social Workers of Colour
           from Black and Other Global Majority Communities by Wayne Reid and Siobhan
           Maclean (eds)

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      Authors: Surinder Guru
      Pages: 185 - 187
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 185-187, February 2023.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-01-14T08:00:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261d
      Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023)
       
  • Book Review: Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics
           and Resistance by Karen Soldatic and Louise St. Guillaume (eds)

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      Authors: Stephen J Crossley
      Pages: 187 - 189
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 187-189, February 2023.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-01-14T08:00:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261e
      Issue No: Vol. 43, No. 1 (2023)
       
  • Book Review: Redress: Ireland's institutions and Transitional Justice by
           Kate O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke and James M Smith

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      Authors: Louise Brangan
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-03-13T06:34:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157754
       
  • Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch

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      Authors: Lisa Dodson
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-03-07T05:46:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157761
       
  • Book Review: Three Roads to the Welfare State by Bryan Fanning

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      Authors: Joe Finnerty
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-03-07T05:45:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157366
       
  • Book Review: The Politics of Ailment: A New Approach to Care by Minna
           Zechner, Lena Näre, Olli Karsio, Antero Olakivi, Liina Sointu,
           Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania and Tiina Vaittinen

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      Authors: Kathleen Lynch
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-03-06T08:11:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157764
       
  • Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding
           to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre,
           Nathalie Huegler and Delphine Peace

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      Authors: Steve Rogowski
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-03-03T09:44:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183231158909
       
  • Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness by Shona
           Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen

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      Authors: June Ying Yee, Gary C. Dumbrill
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2023-03-03T08:31:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157755
       
  • Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult
           social care policy in Wales

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      Authors: Alison Tarrant
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      This article examines adult social care policy in Wales. It argues that successive Welsh Governments have sought to develop policy which rejects the principles of marketisation and individualisation that have characterised the public sector policy of UK governments for decades, and upholds instead a distinctive set of socialist-inclined values. It assesses whether Welsh social care policy and legislation effectively diverge from the Westminster paradigm, and how Welsh Governments have dealt with the narrative of ‘personalisation’ which dominates social care discussion elsewhere in the UK. It finds that Welsh Governments have to date struggled to craft social care policies that incorporate their stated principles, explores the difficulties inherent in superimposing new principles on inherited policy narratives and mechanisms, and considers the implications for devolved policymaking.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-12-29T12:22:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221145404
       
  • Facing the folk devils of modern slavery policy

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      Authors: David Gadd, Rose Broad
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Much British crime and immigration policy over the last decade has been justified as a response to the problem of modern slavery perpetrated by ‘evil’ foreign national organised criminals profiting from the exploitation of vulnerable people. Social scientists, by contrast, have drawn attention to the hallmarks of a moral panic. We report here on findings of the first interview-based study of modern slavery offenders in the UK. Our findings reveal a diversity of motives among a disparate sample, only a minority of whom profited substantially from crimes organised internationally by illicit enterprises. Few participants bore much resemblance to the folk devil politicians have evoked to obscure the social, legal, and political factors that render some of the world's most destitute people vulnerable to severe exploitation when their rights are no longer fully protected by Western governments.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-12-22T05:31:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142208
       
  • A critical overview of how English health and social care publications
           represent autistic adults’ intimate lives

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      Authors: Monique Huysamen, Marianthi Kourti, Christopher Hatton
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Autistic people face more social barriers to, and experience greater anxiety around, intimate relationships than the general population in our majority neurotypical society, leading to increased loneliness and social isolation. National health and social care policies and publications should recognise these inequalities and guide service systems in reducing them. In this paper, we employ a document analysis design to analyse a cross-section of English national health and social care publications to investigate how autistic adults’ intimate lives are represented and prioritised in these publications. Most publications do not adequately and proportionally recognise or prioritise autistic people's intimate lives. They focus on the risks associated with sex and relationships and overlook autism-specific intimacy needs. They prioritise participation in the workforce while renouncing government responsibility for supporting intimate relationships which can reduce loneliness and alienation. We offer recommendations to ensure that health and social care publication processes better recognise intimate lives.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-12-19T03:58:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142216
       
  • Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK
           suicide prevention policies

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      Authors: Alexander Oaten, Ana Jordan, Amy Chandler, Hazel Marzetti
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Suicide prevention policies set out government strategies and priorities for action and in doing so construct meanings, legitimise knowledge and frame possibilities. Despite their importance, prevention policies remain underexamined and taken for granted. Using Bacchi's poststructuralist ‘What's The Problem Represented To Be’ approach we critically analyse UK suicide prevention policies as sites of biopolitical surveillance and consider how suicide is constructed within such policy regimes. Drawing on Foucault, we contextualise suicide as an object and focus of biopolitical surveillance. We argue that suicide prevention policies seek to negate the contingency and complexity of suicide and instead represent it as amenable to biopolitical governance. Prevention policies do this by framing suicide as a visible and predictable object that can be known and governed via surveillance driven risk management. Such policies risk marginalising some publics, and diverting attention from the political, social and economic contexts of injustice in which suicides occur.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-12-16T06:34:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142544
       
  • Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood
           in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família

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      Authors: HAYLEY JONES
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      As cash transfers have become key tenets of social protection systems in the global South, much effort has gone into evaluating their outcomes. Less attention has been paid, however, to young beneficiaries’ experiences of cash transfers and the contextualised and differentiated impacts on their lives at the micro-level. Based on a qualitative study of young recipients of Brazil's Bolsa Família programme, this article explores the factors that shape young people's schooling trajectories. The article demonstrates the complexity of young people's lives vis-à-vis the CCT policy model; particularly, how their trajectories do not conform to its linear logic, but rather reflect a more complex interaction of gender norms and social and economic inequalities. The tension between the linearity of the policy model and these differentiated and gendered trajectories in turn complicates how young people navigate the transition to social adulthood, by marking out ‘problematic’ vs ‘successful’ transitions and trajectories.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-12-15T05:26:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221137818
       
  • An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and
           Wales

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      Authors: Khatidja Chantler, Kelly Bracewell, Victoria Baker, Kim Heyes, Peter Traynor, Megan Ward
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      This article considers how minoritisation features in Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) in England and Wales and identifies critical learning in relation to addressing minoritisation. Five themes were identified: i) the invisibility of race, culture and ethnicity; ii) perceptions and experiences of services; iii) use of stereotypes and the culturalisation of domestic violence and abuse (DVA); iv) lack of interpreters; and v) DHR recommendations. Our analysis illustrates that statutory sector services should strengthen their responses to Black and minoritised victims by ensuring proper recording of cultural background is used to inform practice; engage professionally trained interpreters with an awareness of DVA; resist framing DVA as endemic to minoritised cultures; and enhance trust and confidence in public services within minoritised communities. The best examples of DHRs challenged service narratives and usually sought expertise from a specialist Black/minoritised DVA service or community organisation (frequently minoritised women's rights organisations).
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-11-03T07:14:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221133052
       
  • The importance of investing in policies beyond ‘the basics':
           Perspectives from black fathers in Philadelphia on how to increase
           community safety

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      Authors: Abigail Henson, Jessica Rosenthal
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      The police killings of unarmed Black men and women, particularly in the year 2020, fueled a moral outcry for defunding the police. The defund movement asserts that divested police funds should be invested in communities most devastated by hyper-policing. However, decisions on which community services to finance are often void of community input. To fill this gap, the current study highlights responses from 50 Black fathers living in southwest Philadelphia on community resources necessary for themselves and their children to live safe and prosperous lives. The men explained that, to enhance public safety and recover from the devastation of social stigmatization and marginalization, funds need to be invested in resources beyond the ‘basics' (i.e., housing, employment, health care). Specifically, the fathers wanted local educational and entrepreneurial opportunities that would allow community members to demonstrate their full potential. The current study informs policymakers on the importance of building community capacity rather than focusing solely on service delivery.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-10-13T07:10:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221125390
       
  • Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical
           considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child
           protective services in the United States

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      Authors: Abigail Williams-Butler
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      This critical review uses the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism to understand the racialized, gendered, and class-based oppression regarding the overrepresentation of poor Black women, children, and families within child protective services (CPS) in the United States. The review begins with a discussion of intersectionality and examines the origins of CPS, along with the potential causes for overrepresentation within the system. Finally, the article presents a detailed overview of how structural gendered racism is manifested within CPS practices and policies. It is imperative that practitioners, administrators, and policymakers acknowledge the utility of applying the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism in understanding the disproportionate contact of poor Black women, children, and families within the system. It is important to work toward practice and policy interventions to improve the overall well-being of this population. Implications for social work practice and policy are discussed.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-10-11T08:04:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221125322
       
  • Sex workers’ peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned
           from a study of a Portuguese community-led response

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      Authors: JOANA DE JESUS MOURA, MARTA PINTO, ALEXANDRA OLIVEIRA, MARIA ANDRADE, SÉRGIO VITORINO, SANDRA OLIVEIRA, ROBERTA MATOS, MARGARIDA MARIA
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      To respond to the consequences felt by the COVID-19 pandemic, a community-led intervention was developed by the Portuguese national Movement of Sex Workers. With this exploratory study, we aimed to document their work and analyze their perceptions of this impact. To do so, we interviewed them individually, between May and August of 2020. Additionally, we analysed an Excel Sheet that contained the needs assessment and the support provided by the Movement. The content analysis of both suggests that the impact of the pandemic might have been exacerbated by the social inequalities caused by the prostitution stigma and characteristics such as gender, migration status, race, and socioeconomic status. This study calls for the inclusion of sex workers’ voices in the design of policies and responses related to the commerce of sex. The consolidation of a Portuguese Movement of Sex Workers is also noted.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-09-27T02:07:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221119955
       
  • Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender
           equality policy for higher education

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      Authors: LENNITA OLIVEIRA RUGGI, NATA DUVVURY
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Since 2014, gender equality has gained momentum in Irish higher education. Feminist organising and media attention resulted in an ‘almost-perfect storm of pressure’ to which the state responded by developing an ‘ambitious and radical’ policy. Employing Bacchi's methodology (WPR), this article demonstrates the problem of gender inequality has been gradually narrowed to address the lack of ‘women’ in senior positions. Competing problematisations were marginalised. The unequal distribution of care work in and out of higher education was ignored, silencing the gendered experiences of academics and non-academics, particularly precarious and outsourced staff. The policy machinery is found to reduce gender transformation to state-led stages and sideline feminist demands, highlighting the need to investigate the role of gender expertise and national statistics. The focus on the glass ceiling (a trend across Europe) is a form of ‘gender branding’ drawing on and reproducing neo-colonial progress-scales while stalling intersectional agendas.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-09-05T06:10:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221119717
       
  • Assessing sick-listed clients’ work ability: A moral mission'

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      Authors: KARIANNE NYHEIM STRAY, OLE JACOB THOMASSEN, HALVARD VIKE
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Judging the extent to which sick-listed clients’ disabilities qualify them for sickness benefits is increasingly part of frontline work. However, we lack knowledge about the discretional process of assessing work ability. Institutional ethnographic research of caseworkers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration revealed that they emphasised clients’ residual work ability – meaning what clients could perform despite their medical diagnoses – as well as their inner motivations and work ethic. We argue that frontline praxis is influenced by efforts to fit clients into a category of the deserving ‘sick-listed yet work-capable client’. Because caseworkers lack guidelines to combine health and work, they increasingly apply their ‘moral selves’ in the assessment process resulting in scepticism towards clients’ feigning, or exaggerating symptoms to obtain financial benefits or avoid work. We question whether our findings represent a shift of the Norwegian universalistic welfare model to a more liberal and incentive-strengthening type.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-07-28T05:51:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221113171
       
  • Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing
           social exclusion' The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in
           Finland

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      Authors: Ulla Buchert, Laura Kemppainen, Antero Olakivi, Sirpa Wrede, Anne Kouvonen
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Governments are rapidly digitalising public services to increase cost-effectiveness of the public sector. This study examines older migrants’ use of digital public health and social welfare services from the perspective of social exclusion. The study uses a mixed methods approach, drawing on representative survey data of Russian-speaking migrants in Finland and qualitative interviews with third-sector representatives who assist Russian-speaking migrants with digital service use.Our quantitative results show that a sizeable proportion of Russian-speaking older adults are excluded from digital services. In particular, those with lower socio-economic status, poor local language skills and without Finnish education are at higher risk of exclusion. Our qualitative results describe the multiple ways the exclusion from digital services intersects with other disadvantages in the everyday lives of Russian-speaking older adults. We argue that digitalisation of these services may foster social exclusion and endanger the realisation of these people's social rights.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-07-04T05:34:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221105035
       
  • Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration
           in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration

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      Authors: CLARE GRIFFITHS, JULIE TREBILCOCK
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Drawing on Bacchi’s (2009) ‘What’s the problem represented to be'’ framework, this article provides a critical analysis of HM Government’s (2021a) New Plan for Immigration. We explore how immigration is problematised, the assumptions that underlie these problematisations, alternative ways of representing the ‘problem’ of immigration, and the possible effects of the proposed reforms. Our article demonstrates how the New Plan is increasingly hostile towards, not only ‘illegal’ migrants, but an ever-widening group of people and organisations who may be viewed as facilitating illegal entry (organised criminals, hauliers) and/or those held responsible for preventing/delaying their removal (lawyers). The government’s proposals risk creating a two-tiered system, increasing the exclusion experienced by those seeking asylum, and widening the net of those held responsible for immigration control. Ultimately, we conclude that while the sentiments behind the government’s New Plan may not be all that ‘new’, they are nevertheless significant for their continuation and intensification of existing hostile policies and practices relating to immigration in the UK. This is especially so, given a number of recent global events that could have provided an opportunity to disrupt the government’s problematisation of, and hostility towards, people seeking refuge.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-07-01T06:33:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221109133
       
  • ‘Do they ever think about people like us'': The experiences of
           people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the
           COVID-19 pandemic

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      Authors: Nathaniel Scherer, Phillippa Wiseman, Nicholas Watson, Richard Brunner, Jane Cullingworth, Shaffa Hameed, CHARLOTTE PEARSON, Tom Shakespeare
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      People with learning disabilities in England and Scotland have experienced an increased risk of illness and death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data of a longitudinal qualitative study with 71 disabled people and 31 disability organisations, this article examines the experiences of 24 people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the pandemic, reflecting on what rendered them vulnerable and placed them at risk. Qualitative interviews were conducted with participants and key informants at two timepoints; June–August 2020 and February–April 2021. Findings emerged across four key themes: failure to plan for the needs of people with learning disabilities; the suspension and removal of social care; the impact of the pandemic on people’s everyday routines; and lack of vaccine prioritisation. The inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities in this study are not particular to the pandemic. We explore the findings in the context of theoretical frameworks of vulnerability, including Fineman’s conceptualisation of a ‘vulnerability paradigm’. We conclude that the structured marginalisation of people with disabilities, entrenched by government action and inaction, have created and exacerbated their vulnerability. Structures, policies and action must change.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-06-27T07:14:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221109147
       
  • Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial
           capability in New Zealand

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      Authors: Louise Humpage, Shelley Bielefeld, Greg Marston, Zoe Staines, Michelle Peterie, Philip Mendes
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      New Zealand recipients of the Youth Payment and Young Parent Payment, who are disproportionally Indigenous Māori and sole mothers, must participate in ‘Money Management’. This form of income management restricts spending, monitors financial transactions and requires compulsory budgeting education. Drawing on interviews with Money Management participants, Youth Service mentors and policymakers, this article argues that Money Management aims to responsibilise young people through conditional welfare, rather than improve their long-term financial capability as articulated. This becomes obvious through analysis of how Money Management ignores: 1) New Zealand financial literacy education policy developments, 2) the literature on best practice in financial literacy education and how values about money and wealth are shaped by 3) Māori world views and 4) gendered norms. The article concludes that states should take more responsibility, by increasing social security incomes and better regulating the financial, labour and housing markets, to ensure the financial capacity of their citizens.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-06-22T06:51:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221106923
       
  • The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local
           authorities

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      Authors: Ed Kiely, Rosalie Warnock
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Theorisations of state violence under austerity have been criticised for their imprecision. In response, this article introduces the concept of institutional neglect: a specific modality of structural violence. We argue that institutional neglect occurs when state services deny care to eligible clients. This is a normative claim which locates an obligation to care in the body of the state. Through case studies of two local authority-run care services in the UK, we identify three banal, quotidian techniques of neglect: delay, deferral, and diversion. We emphasise that care is not necessarily an antidote to violence; instead, care and violence are increasingly entangled within state bureaucracies under austerity.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-06-22T06:50:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221104976
       
  • Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum
           and perpetuating epistemic injustice

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      Authors: Hakan Seckinelgin
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Calls for the decolonization of education at all levels of education in the UK have gained new momentum since the murder of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 in Minneapolis and the subsequent Black Lives Matter demonstrations throughout the US and the UK. In this article I focus on the reactions to demands for the decolonization of the curriculum in my own department, Social Policy, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). I argue that understanding the reactions of academic staff to student demands is informative about the nature of the problem. The article provides a contribution to discussions on decolonization on two fronts: (a) it highlights the internal dynamics of engagement with student demands in the context of a Higher Education Institution (HEI) and (b) the academic responses to students’ demands reveal an underlying mechanism that reproduces the status quo in the teaching of Social Policy.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-06-13T01:06:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221103745
       
  • ‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in
           working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent

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      Authors: Andrea Waling, Alexandra James, JACKSON FAIRCHILD
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores findings from 23 expert stakeholder interviews on working with cisgender heterosexual men and boys in the fields of gendered violence prevention, relationships and sexuality education (RSE), sexual health, sport, and emotional and mental well-being. It focuses on how organisations and individual consultants navigate political and social tensions when working with boys and young men. Findings from these interviews note several significant challenges and barriers stakeholders face in implementing programs designed to support cisgender, heterosexual boys and young men, particularly in areas of sex, sexual health and wellbeing. These include 1) broader questions as to who is responsible for teaching about sex, relationships, and sexuality; 2) the lack of public support in running programs about sex and sexuality, 3) uncertainty as to the best settings to engage boys and young men, and 4) hostility or lack of engagement with program content. We highlight the implications of these challenges for policy and practice, as well as recommendations for how to address some of these issues.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-06-10T06:36:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221103817
       
  • Adequate for whom' Reflections on the right to adequate housing from
           fieldwork on Roma inclusion in Italy

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      Authors: Silvia Cittadini
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      The definition of 'adequate housing', a term widely used in the protection of the related right and the development of housing policies, has never been fully questioned, despite the acknowledged importance of shelter for the well-being of the individual beyond its physical function. This article analyses the weaknesses of the current definition of this term through the findings of reflexive fieldwork conducted in Italy with Roma targeted by inclusion policies in the housing sector. Departing from the analysis of the impact of anti-gypsyism in the Italian policy context, the interviews highlight how policies constructed around ideas of adequacy focused solely on the physical structure of the dwelling contribute to the neglect of the variety of social, cultural, economic and emotional factors that affect housing choices, leading to the failure of initiatives aimed at providing adequate housing solutions.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-06-02T05:08:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221103570
       
  • The national and moral borders of the 2016 French law on sex work: An
           analysis of the ‘prostitution exit programme’

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      Authors: CALOGERO GIAMETTA, HÉLÈNE LE BAIL
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      The 2016 law on prostitution in France introduced the so-called Swedish model approach to sex work, which, at the national level, criminalises those who purchase sex rather than the sex workers themselves. Alongside the repressive character of the law, lawmakers introduced a number of social policy measures through the implementation of a ‘prostitution exit programme’. Whilst some pioneering research has sought to evaluate the impact of penalising the clients of sex workers, no survey has yet focused on the outcomes of prostitution exit programmes. Based on qualitative data, including interviews with sex workers and grassroots organisations, this article aims to analyse how the programme was implemented and its overall outcomes. The interviews we conducted shed particular light on the fact that the implementation of the programme is impacted on by the application of restrictive migration policies.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-05-27T05:31:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221101167
       
  • Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas:
           The multiple governing of women through the Australian social security
           couple rule

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      Authors: LYNDAL SLEEP
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      This article argues that women social security recipients are governed by multiple political rationalities through the couple rule in Australia. It focuses on different periods of development of the couple rule – its inception within women's only payments of the 1970s, it's ‘de-gendering’ with the Social Security Act 1991 (Cth), and its current intersections with the digitisation of social security administration. It shows that different governing tools emerged across time to govern women through their relationships, but did not replace each other. Rather, the result is that women are now multiply governed by these seemingly contradictory rationalities. Women are governed as dependents by welfarist rationality through expectations of frugality and fidelity to a paternal state. They are governed as independent individuals through neo-liberal political rationalisations of ‘choice’. In addition, through algorithmic governmentality, women are constituted and reconstituted into a possibly promiscuous digital persona using information which is abstracted from women's daily lives. Through each of these modes of governing, the patriarchal assumptions of the couple rule endure.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-05-04T05:26:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221089265
       
  • Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality
           policy

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      Authors: Irene Gedalof
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      This article draws on the insights of narrative analysis to critically review recent changes to UK government equality policy through three examples: the announcement of a new equality strategy, changes to the governance of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and the establishment and report of the Sewell Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. I argue that these policy initiatives and the narratives justifying them signal moves to further weaken the UK government’s formal commitments to protections against discrimination. This involves not only the familiar argument in favour of a limited, liberal model of individual equality of opportunity, but is also about bolstering normative whiteness in the face of growing calls for a reckoning with the UK’s legacy of colonialism, slavery and deep-seated racial inequalities.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-05-02T07:08:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221093788
       
  • COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security:
           Re-setting debate

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      Authors: Michael Orton, Sudipa Sarkar
      First page: 3
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      The Covid-19 pandemic has seen emerging debate about a possible shift in ‘anti-welfare commonsense’ i.e. the orthodoxy previously described in this journal as solidifying negative public attitudes towards ‘welfare’. While a shift in attitudes might be ascribed to the circumstances of the crisis it would still be remarkable for such a strongly established orthodoxy to have changed quite so rapidly. It is appropriate, therefore, to reflect on whether the ‘anti-welfare’ orthodoxy was in fact as unequivocal as claimed' To address this question, challenges to the established orthodoxy that were emerging pre-pandemic are examined along with the most recently available survey data. This leads to discussion of broader issues relating to understanding attitudes: methodology; ‘messiness’ and ambivalence of attitudes; attitudes and constructions of deservingness; and following or leading opinion. It is argued that the ‘anti-welfare’ orthodoxy has always been far more equivocal than claimed, with consequent implications for anti-poverty action and re-setting debate.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-05-04T05:26:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221091553
       
  • Navigating multiple pandemics: A critical analysis of the impact of
           COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services

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      Authors: Tara Mantler, C. Nadine Wathen, Caitlin Burd, Jennifer C. D. MacGregor, Isobel McLean, Jill Veenendaal
      First page: 29
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      COVID-19 illustrated what governments can do to mobilise against a global threat. Despite the strong governmental response to COVID-19 in Canada, another ‘pandemic’, gender-based violence (GBV), has been causing grave harm with generally insufficient policy responses. Using interpretive description methodology, 26 interviews were conducted with shelter staff and 5 focus groups with 24 executive directors (EDs) from GBV service organizations in Ontario, Canada. Five main themes were identified and explored, namely that: (1) there are in fact four pandemics at play; (2) the interplay of pandemics amplified existing systemic weaknesses; (3) the key role of informal partnerships and community support, (4) temporary changes in patterns of funding allocation; and (5) exhaustion as a consequence of addressing multiple and concurrent pandemics. Implications and recommendations for researchers, policy makers, and the GBV sector are discussed.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-04-26T06:53:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221088461
       
  • The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design

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      Authors: Alex Broom, Michelle Peterie, Katherine Kenny, Gaby Ramia, Nadine Ehlers
      First page: 51
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of ‘unintended consequences’. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear agency involved, and are thus particularly adept at evading accountability structures and forms of responsibility. Drawing insights from decades of social theory – as well as three illustrative examples from Australia's health, welfare and immigration systems – this article argues that many social structures are in fact intended to cause harm, but designed not to appear so. In presenting this argument, we offer a theoretical framework for conceptualising harm as actively administered. We also challenge scholars from across the social sciences to reconsider the partially depoliticising narrative of ‘unintended consequences’, and to be bolder in naming the intended harms that permeate social life, often serving powerful political and economic interests.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-04-08T05:45:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221087333
       
  • Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How
           welfare policies impact resettlement support

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      Authors: Hannah Haycox
      First page: 76
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      The Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) comprised the UK government's primary response to persons forcibly displaced by the Syrian civil war. Recipients were granted immediate recourse to public funds and a locally-based 12-month integration support plan, designed at the discretion of practitioners. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with refugees and practitioners in two areas with contrasting local approaches, this article explores the tensions that emerged when broader central government policies (distinct from the VPRS), intersected with resettlement support in recipients’ lives. Two current welfare reforms are identified and evaluated as having impacted resettled families’ housing experiences: firstly; the Two-Child Limit and secondly; the Benefit Cap. The article demonstrates how the financial precarity produced by both policies undermined local practitioners’ resettlement support. In doing so, the article challenges dominant policy narratives of exceptionality, locating those resettled within the routinised systems of precarity and conditionality embedded in the welfare system.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-04-15T05:43:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221088532
       
  • Contractual controls and pragmatic professionalism: A qualitative study on
           contracting social services in China

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      Authors: Jie Lei, Tian Cai, Chak Kwan Chan
      First page: 97
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      This study used the contracting projects of a district branch of the Women's Federation in Guangzhou as case examples to demonstrate both the Chinese state's contractual controls over social work organisations (SWOs) and the pragmatic response strategies of SWOs and professionals. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seventeen participants, including local officials of the Women's Federation and social workers from contracted SWOs. It was found that with the ultimate goal of consolidating the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China, the Women's Federation's dual role in politics and service provision had led to normative, managerial, technical and relational controls over SWOs. SWOs and professionals were generally submissive to these controls, but they employed diverse coping strategies, including compliance, bargaining, transformation and investment in personal relationships. The interactions within the contractual relationship created a pragmatic professionalism that embraced dominant political ideologies, employed de-politicising techniques, and personally depended on individual officials.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-04-26T06:52:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221089009
       
  • Visibilising the climate in social policies in Barcelona: Connections in
           the urban context

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      Authors: Joana Díaz-Pont
      First page: 119
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      The paper aims to identify whether the interdependencies between climate action and social policies in the urban context are visible and, if so, in what areas and through what framings. Using a content analysis approach, it compares framings of the news on social policies in Barcelona over the course of a year. The results show that climate action is constructed discursively as an isolated issue, with its own logics and complexities, and with few references to other social policy areas. It also reveals that references to climate change in other social policy areas do not operate as framings. The paper claims that discursive strategies that separate climate change policy from other social policy areas can invisibilise the connections that operate between these policies, links that are key for pursuing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, especially in the urban context.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-04-01T06:12:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221089010
       
  • ‘The Left will find that it has bought a Trojan Horse’: The dialectics
           of universal basic income

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      Authors: David James Hogg
      First page: 140
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in basic income proposals. While this is not an entirely new phenomenon, what is different about the current discourse is the Left’s wholehearted embrace of what has traditionally been seen as a conservative social policy in Britain. It is my contention that UBI is potentially a dangerous policy for the Left, in that it risks undermining the – admittedly imperfect – welfare protections already in existence. This paper draws on Marxist political economy in order to demonstrate how the emancipatory potential of UBI has been somewhat overstated by some of its Leftist supporters, while a discussion of the neutrality of the State is important in considering how this ‘shape-shifting social policy' is likely to be implemented in practice.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-04-26T06:53:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221092151
       
  • Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists
           through a community-based social protection programme

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      Authors: GETU DEMEKE ALENE, JESSICA DUNCAN, HAN VAN DIJK
      First page: 157
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
      Drawing on an analysis of the implementation of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in the Somali periphery, we consider how the programme is promoted as an ‘innovative’ social protection programme that links food security with development projects. Underpinning its ‘innovative’ role is a community-based approach, focusing upon the institutions, values and capacities of a community. Taking the case of the nomadic pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Somali region, we consider the role of clans as the ‘dominant’ grassroot socio-political organizations. Our analysis, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork shows how in the implementation of PSNP the mobilization and (re)deployment of clanship values and rules create legible and governable Somali pastoral subjects. This is in line with the Ethiopian state’s conception of ‘improvement’ and ‘modern’ way of life based on sedentary-based development and governance. We illustrate how clan leaders unwittingly (re)organize their clan (leadership) values and capacities to support this project. We argue that clan-based implementation of PSNP has become an ‘effective’ mechanism of extending state power and governing nomadic pastoralists, leading to changes in relations of authority and in forms of (inter)subjectivity between pastoralists, their clan (leaders) and the state. Towards this end, we put forward the concept of ‘government through clanship’ to reflect the assemblage of these practices, processes and changes which would offer critical analytical insights into social policies claimed to be community-based.
      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-09-01T06:16:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221119718
       
  • Book review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by
           Andreas Bieler

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      Authors: Jill Robbie
      First page: 178
      Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Critical Social Policy
      PubDate: 2022-12-16T06:33:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261
       
 
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