Journal•ISSN: 0261-0183
Critical Social Policy
SAGE Publishing
About: Critical Social Policy is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Social policy & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0261-0183. Over the lifetime, 1427 publications have been published receiving 36452 citations. The journal is also known as: CSR.
Topics: Social policy, Politics, Welfare, Social work, Government
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the different ways in which citizens have been addressed and affected by New Labour policies, concentrating on four processes: activation, empowerment, responsibilization and abandonment.
Abstract: New Labour has paid considerable attention to citizenship. In this paper I explore the different ways in which citizens have been addressed and affected by New Labour policies, concentrating on four processes: activation, empowerment, responsibilization and abandonment. I argue that these different processes are not just the effect of looking at New Labour from different perspectives. Rather they need to be seen as linked in a political and governmental project that seeks to construct the unity of the nation and manage its internal diversity.
462 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that the concept of social capital is episodic, socially constructed, and value-based, depending on the prevailing ideological climate, and propose a critical framework for assessing the links between immigration, social cohesion, and social capital.
Abstract: In recent years, there has been an intense public and policy debate about ethnic diversity, community cohesion, and immigration in Britain and other societies worldwide. In addition, there has been a growing preoccupation with the possible dangers to social cohesion represented by growing immigration flows and ethnic diversity. This paper proposes a critical framework for assessing the links between immigration, social cohesion, and social capital. It argues that the concept of social capital is episodic, socially constructed and value-based, depending on the prevailing ideological climate. Considerations of social capital as a public policy tool to achieve social cohesion need to incorporate an appreciation of alternative conceptions of social capital rooted in a textured under-standing of immigrant processes and migration contexts.
430 citations
TL;DR: This paper argued that the concept of social exclusion has become embedded as a crucial element in poverty and inequality, and argued that social exclusion was originally developed to describe the manifold consequences of poverty.
Abstract: This article argues that the concept of social exclusion, which was orig inally developed to describe the manifold consequences of poverty and inequality, has become embedded as a crucial element w...
392 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the theoretical perspective of post-Foucauldian governmentality, especially the insights and challenges it poses for applied researchers within the critical social policy tradition.
Abstract: This article considers the theoretical perspective of post-Foucauldian governmentality, especially the insights and challenges it poses for applied researchers within the critical social policy tradition. The article firstly examines the analytical strengths of this approach to understanding power and rule in contemporary society, before moving on to consider its limitations for social policy. It concludes by arguing that these insights can be retained, and some of the weaknesses overcome, by adopting Stenson's realist governmentality approach. This advocates combining traditional discursive analysis with more ethnographic methods in order to render visible the concrete activity of governing, and unravel the messiness, complexity and unintended consequences involved in the struggles around subjectivity.
360 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue for a political ethics of care to balance New Labour's current preoccupation with the ethic of paid work However, care as a practice invokes different experiences, meanings, contexts and multiple relations of power.
Abstract: This article argues for a political ethics of care to balance New Labour's current preoccupation with the ethic of paid work However, care as a practice invokes different experiences, meanings, contexts and multiple relations of power With this in mind, the article traces the development of the concept of care taking up, in particular, challenges and differences raised by disability, ‘race’ and migration These offer important insights for a new political ethics of care whose key dimensions are spelled out in the final part of the article
353 citations