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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450832403321
• Autore: Schram Sanford F
• 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