{"title":"Book Review: Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics and Resistance by Karen Soldatic and Louise St. Guillaume (eds)","authors":"S. Crossley","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142261e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142261e","url":null,"abstract":"ently developed throughout the book (e.g. multiculturalism is not critically explored), but the main threads are clear in the closing section, Ruminations (Reid). This suggest that anti-racist strategies which challenge structural injustices against Black people must be brought firmly back on the agenda and not be allowed to be diluted or ignored. The goal is to increase Black people in leadership positions who can challenge injustices. The role of education, empowerment, decolonised curriculum, policy formulation and alliance building are seen as key ingredients in the anti-racist struggle as well as political activism. The book arrives on the scene amidst a Tory leadership selection and a government that has been the most racially diverse ever with key leaders from minority ethnic backgrounds. Yet they condone, rather than challenge, the most hideous policies such as sending immigrants to Rwanda. Surely, more than just Black faces are required. This is acknowledged in the book, but not developed. The book will be useful for those wishing to understand oppression in the various features of social work and social work education. Practitioners, academics and students will identify with the narratives and issues highlighted here and find common cause.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"187 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41633678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Outlanders: Hidden Narratives from Social Workers of Colour from Black and Other Global Majority Communities by Wayne Reid and Siobhan Maclean (eds)","authors":"Surinder Guru","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142261d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142261d","url":null,"abstract":"activism (Chapter 2), broader formal attempts to acknowledge and address inequality (Chapter 13) and allied health professions, namely occupational therapy (Chapter 14). Whilst the focus of the book is largely on black lives and communities, it also discusses other racially discriminated groups, including Roma, Gypsy and Traveller (Chapter 7), and Jewish (Chapter 8), communities. Each chapter is accessible, written clearly, and to the point. This is not to say the book is comfortable reading, however. The book is uncomfortable to read, but then talking about racism should be. In conclusion, this book would be beneficial to a range of audiences. In Chapter 4, regarding the motivation behind her activism, Social Work student Diana, a young black woman, says ‘I didn’t allow them [the social work community/university] a moment to breathe, because I don’t have a moment to breathe’ (p. 25). There is no role in Social Work where you can afford to ignore this statement. If you are student, Diana is your fellow student and future colleague. If you are an educator, Diana is your student. If you are an organisation, Diana will be your employee. The onus is not on Diana to educate, it is on white people – at all stages of their careers – to take the time to stop, listen, learn and act. This book will aid with the above. It is just so timely, in both content and style.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"185 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44775498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly, Rights by Emily Grabham","authors":"D. Baines","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142261a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142261a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"180 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41946459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett","authors":"Cynthia Okpokiri","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142261b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142261b","url":null,"abstract":". Keywords and concepts with contested socio-political","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"182 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42872163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Anti-Racist Social Worker: Stories of Activism by Social Care Professionals and Allied Health Professionals by Tanya Moore and Glory Simango","authors":"Lisa Warwick","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142261c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142261c","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"184 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46729480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales","authors":"Alison Tarrant","doi":"10.1177/02610183221145404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221145404","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"676 - 696"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42812408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facing the folk devils of modern slavery policy","authors":"D. Gadd, Rosemary Broad","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142208","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"581 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43799116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monique Huysamen, Maria-Evgenia Kourti, Christopher Hatton
{"title":"A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives","authors":"Monique Huysamen, Maria-Evgenia Kourti, Christopher Hatton","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142216","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"626 - 653"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42842523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies","authors":"A. Oaten, Ana Jordan, A. Chandler, Hazel Marzetti","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142544","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"654 - 675"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47126046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler","authors":"J. Robbie","doi":"10.1177/02610183221142261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221142261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"178 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42961044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}