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`As the study of social policy comes increasingly to address issues of theorising welfare in a period of fundamental social change, Culpitt's book is especially welcome in helping to update the reader in many of the debates and explorations surrounding social change, in particular those instigated by Foucault some two decades ago - his work on "governmentality" is central to Culpitt's book - and by Beck on risk more recently. The book also serves as a useful introduction to other key thinkers influencing social theory today whose work also addresses issues central to social policy, such as Giddens, Honneth and Turner' - Martin Hewitt, University of Hertfordshire
This book examines the notion of risk in relation to social policy. It takes ideas about risk (as expressed by sociologists such as Ulrich Beck in Risk Society), and applies them to recent changes in welfare. The author shows neo-liberals have used various aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency, and how various rhetoric's of risk have been used to reshape contemporary politics.
Social Policy and Risk makes a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary welfare politics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Welfare Hazard, Social Policy and Risk
An Introduction
Following Foucault
Governance, Security and Risk
Welfare Obligations and Safety Nets
The Lessening of Risk
Contract, Freedom and Choice
The Rediscovery of Risk
The Risk Arena
Citizenship, Rights and the Marketplace
Avoidance of Bads
Beck¿s New Ubiquity of Risk?
The Radical Rupture of
> A Critical Review
Risk and Recognition
A View Forward?
The Welfare Gaze
Risk and the Dilemmas of Dependency
Afterword
Foucault¿s Coldest of Cold Monsters!
Zusammenfassung
This text applies ideas of risk - as expressed by theorists such as Beck and Foucault - to changes in welfare. The author demonstrates how neo-liberals have used aspects of risk to attack welfare dependency and shows how rhetorics of risk have been used to reshape contemporary politics.
