Paul Michael Garrett

Gebundenes Buch

Welfare Words

Critical Social Work & Social Policy

Beschreibung

Systematically exposes the neoliberal myths in unequal societies - Niels Rosendal Jensen
'A call to arms to challenge inequality and social exclusion.' - Lel Meleyal
An impassioned dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform get reading, get angry, get ready . - Gargi Bhattacharyya

Welfare Words analyses the keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism. Examining how power relations operate through language and culture, it encourages readers to question how welfare words fit within a wider economic and cultural context riven with gross social inequalities; to disrupt taken-for-granted meanings within mainstream social work and social policy, and to think more deeply, critically and politically about the incessant usage of specific words and phrases. Written by an authoritative voice in the field, Paul Michael Garrett makes sense of complex theories which codify everyday experience, giving readers vital tools to better understand and change their social worlds.

Autor

Paul Garrett is the respected author of Remaking Social Work with Children and Families (Routledge, 2003); Social Work with Irish Children and Families in Britain (Policy Press, 2004); ′Transforming′ Children's Services? (Open University/McGraw Hill, 2009); Social Work and Social Theory (Policy Press, 2013, but with a Chinese edition presently being negotiated); Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work: Children and Families (Policy Press, 2014). His work has appeared in international peer reviewed journals across a range of disciplines; approximately 100 hundred articles have been published since 1998. He have presented papers at a number of international conferences. His next invited 'keynote' is schedule for the international Sociology and Social Work conference in 2015. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Critical Social Policy (SAGE) (where he edits the Reviews section), the European Journal of Social Work (Taylor & Francis) and he is also a Journal of Progressive Human Services (Taylor & Francis)consulting editor for the US-based .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781473968967
• ISBN-10: 1473968968
• Artikelnr.: 49447195

Rezensionen

What I found most striking about this book was the way Garrett shows the changing meanings of keywords over time and in relation to wider social developments. Many terms now used to maintain a neoliberal agenda and societal status quo, often had more progressive and, often, revolutionary meaning behind them. Such an insight should alert us to the need not to take any term at face value but interrogate it in order to discover what it signifies at any historical juncture and particular social context. Garrett has provided us with a valuable analysis of the language of welfare and of the political uses and misuses of keywords that are ubiquitous within the field of social welfare, social policy, social work and the wider public. I highly recommend it for all levels of study within such disciplines as well as those of politics, sociology, media and cultural studies. It is also required reading for academics and politically engaged members of the public, indeed anyone with an interest in, understanding contemporary society. Kenneth McLaughlin, Journal of Political Power