Georgia van Toorn

The New Political Economy of Disability (eBook, ePUB)

Transnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and across different countries through cross-national investigation of individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy mobility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000348422
• Artikelnr.: 60857158

Autorenporträt

Georgia van Toorn is a political sociologist whose principal interests are in social policy and welfare research, and the political economy of disability and care work. Her research program comprises a series of projects that investigate the politics of social policy reform, the organisation and delivery of social care, and care work in publicly funded social services in which market-oriented principles, processes, vocabularies and mechanisms have been adopted, both in Australia and internationally. Georgia is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, on a study of the history and impacts of Australian sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Individualised funding: history, theory, practice. 2. Disability politics and the origins of Individualised Funding. 3. From Thatcherism to New Labour: Individualised Funding in an age of 'deep' neoliberalisation. 4. Self-direct Support: A New Direction for Scottish Social Care? 5. Transnational advocacy and neoliberal entanglements: Individualised Funding in post-GFC Scotland. 6. New policy, same paradigm: Australia's experiment in Individualised Funding. 7. Individualised Funding and the changing political economy of Australia's 'disability marketplace'. 8. Conclusion.