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Power, agency, relationality and welfare practice

Dobson, Rachael (2015) Power, agency, relationality and welfare practice. Journal of Social Policy 44 (4), pp. 687-705. ISSN 0047-2794.

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Abstract

This article argues that constructions of social phenomena in social policy and welfare scholarship think about the subjects and objects of welfare practice in essentialising ways, with negativistic effects for practitioners working in ‘regulatory’ contexts such as housing and homelessness practice. It builds into debates about power, agency, social policy and welfare by bringing psychosocial and feminist theorisations of relationality to practice research. It claims that relational approaches provide a starting point for the analysis of empirical practice data, by working through the relationship between the individual and the social via an ontological unpicking and revisioning of practitioners' social worlds.

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Item Type: Article
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User: Rachael Dobson
Date Deposited: 04 Dec 2017 09:29
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2025 00:24
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20513

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