03157nam 2200697Ia 450 991082824020332120200520144314.01-281-09366-197866110936621-59213-778-4(CKB)1000000000339866(EBL)298903(OCoLC)476075179(SSID)ssj0000270192(PQKBManifestationID)11206353(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270192(PQKBWorkID)10261991(PQKB)11192120(MiAaPQ)EBC298903(EXLCZ)99100000000033986620050606d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWelfare discipline discourse, governance, and globalization /Sanford F. Schram1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20061 online resource (206 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-301-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexAbout the AuthorFor 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 discPublic welfareSocial policyPublic welfareUnited StatesPublic welfareEuropeGlobalizationSocial aspectsDiscourse analysisUnited StatesSocial policy1993-EuropeSocial policyPublic welfare.Social policy.Public welfarePublic welfareGlobalizationSocial aspects.Discourse analysis.361.6/1361.61361.680973Schram Sanford1131002MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828240203321Welfare Discipline4115423UNINA