Contents:
Contents.
1. Preludes, introductions and meanings
John Carter Part 1 Postmodern frameworks and social policy
2. Studying social policy after modernity
John Carter 3. Postmodernism, poststructuralism ans social policy
John R. Gibbs 4. Oppositional postmodern theory and welfare analysis: anti-oppressive practice in a postmodern frame
Martin O'Brien and Sue Penna 5. Quality assurance and evaluation in social work in a postmodern era
Barbara Fawcett and Brid Featherstone Part 2 Critical social policy and postmodernity
6. 'One step beyond': critical social policy in a 'postmodern' Britain?
Kirk Mann 7. Postmodernity and the future of welfare: whose critiques, whose social policy?
Suzy Croft and Peter Beresford Part 3 Social divisions and social exclusion
8. New horizons? New insights?: Postmodernising social policy and the case of sexuality
Jean Carabine 9. Reopening the gift: race and the critique of normative social policy
Chris Smaje 10. Individualisation processes and social policy: insecurity, reflexivity and risk in the restructuring of contemporary British health and housing policies
Sarah Nettleton and Roger Burrows Part 4 Governance and new technologies of control in the new social policy
11. Thriving on chaos? Managerialisation and social welfare
John Clarke 12. Performativity and fragmentation in 'postmodern schooling'
Stephen J. Ball 13. Post-Betty Fordism and neo-liberal drug policies
Robin Bunton 14. Welfare direct: informatics and the emergence of self-service welfare?
Brian D. Loader Part 5 Citizenship amid the fragmented nation state
15. The delivery of welfare: the associationist vision
Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson 16. Globalisation, fragmentation and local welfare citizenship
Allan Cochrane 17. Postmodernity and social Europe
Norman Ginsburg References.
Name Index.
Subject index.