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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450832403321

Autore

Schram Sanford F

Titolo

Welfare Discipline [[electronic resource] ] : Discourse, Governance and Globalization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-09366-1

9786611093662

1-59213-778-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

361.6/1

361.61

361.680973

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Globalization

Public welfare

Social policy

Public welfare - Social aspects - United States

Social policy - Europe

Social Welfare & Social Work - General

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Truth of Globalization Discourse: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; 2 Reversed Polarities: The Incomplete Americanizationof European Welfare Policy; 3 Truth Is a Woman: Care as the Real Absence in the Post-Industrial Welfare State; 4 Welfare as Racemaking: Contextualizing Racial Disparitiesin Welfare Reform; 5 Recommodified Discourse: The Limits of the Asset-BuildingApproach to Fighting Poverty; 6 Deconstructing Dependency: Heading Toward a Counter-Discourse; 7 Compassionate Liberalism: Harm Reduction as a Postmodern Ethicfor the Welfare State; Index



About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

For the past decade, political scientist Sanford Schram has led the academic effort to understand how Americans and their political officials talk about poverty and welfare and what impact that discourse has on policy and on the global society. In Welfare Discipline, Schram argues that it is time to take stock of the new forms of welfare and to develop even better methods to understand them. He argues for a more contextualized approach to examining welfare policy, from the use of the idea of globalization to justify cutbacks, to the increasing employment of U.S. policy disc