{"title":"Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett","authors":"C. Morley","doi":"10.1177/02610183221101161a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221101161a","url":null,"abstract":"adults? Finally, in straining to connect with accounts of the origins and forms of the welfare state, Anderson perhaps overplays the importance of sociological theory. Readers whose interest is in child labour will find the insistent theoretical framing and sociological terminology daunting. They may also be sceptical about its value. Surely it is clear without ‘pragmatist field theory’ that an ability to build alliances, to secure support by implicating local agencies in ideas and positions and to network across different elite groups was important in reformers’ success? It would be a shame if a too heavy theoretical touch deterred general readers who would gain from working through this carefully researched book, especially as its implications, spelled out in the closing chapter, provide real food for thought.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"552 - 555"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43117230","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: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali","authors":"Maria Moberg Stephenson","doi":"10.1177/02610183221101161b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221101161b","url":null,"abstract":"chapter considering the emancipatory potential of a particular theorist’s contribution and how it may (or may not) help activate dissenting forms of social work. To be sure, the book is not light reading or for the faint-hearted, but it provides substantial nourishment for dissenting practitioners and educators seeking a more advanced and scholarly, rather than merely introductory, engagement with critical social theory. Overall, the underpinning critical analysis results in impeccably crafted arguments that provide strong validation of the need for dissent. To sum up, Paul Michael Garrett is a leading global scholar in critical social theory with a creative and encyclopaedic mind, and much of this is on display in this book. Once again, therefore, he has succeeded in making a profoundly valuable contribution to the global social work academy. In short, by adding to the much-needed Leftist scholarship in the discipline of social work, Dissenting Social Work furnishes an intellectual feast that brings critical social theory and social work into a deeply serious and productive conversation.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"555 - 557"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44160608","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 Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson","authors":"N. Ginsburg","doi":"10.1177/02610183221101161d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221101161d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"559 - 560"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48478353","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":"Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice","authors":"Hakan Seckinelgin","doi":"10.1177/02610183221103745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221103745","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"296 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41548132","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":"‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent","authors":"Andrea Waling, Alexandra James, John F. Fairchild","doi":"10.1177/02610183221103817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221103817","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"234 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47067703","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":"Adequate for whom? Reflections on the right to adequate housing from fieldwork on Roma inclusion in Italy","authors":"Silvia Cittadini","doi":"10.1177/02610183221103570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221103570","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"277 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46187218","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: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson","authors":"J. Humphries","doi":"10.1177/02610183221101161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221101161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"550 - 552"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44462346","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":"The national and moral borders of the 2016 French law on sex work: An analysis of the ‘prostitution exit programme’","authors":"Calogero Giametta, Hélène Le Bail","doi":"10.1177/02610183221101167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221101167","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"214 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41546837","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":"Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas: The multiple governing of women through the Australian social security couple rule","authors":"Lyndal Sleep","doi":"10.1177/02610183221089265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221089265","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"193 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44602870","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":"Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy","authors":"Irene Gedalof","doi":"10.1177/02610183221093788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221093788","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"257 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42645798","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}