Constructing spaces of discourse and 'regroupment' : the case of women's self-reliant groups in Scotland
Hill O'Connor, Clementine and Mazzei, Micaela and Montgomery, Tom (2022) Constructing spaces of discourse and 'regroupment' : the case of women's self-reliant groups in Scotland. Journal of Social Policy. ISSN 0047-2794 (In Press) (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000149)
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Abstract
Social security policy in liberal welfare systems have been increasingly shifting towards conditionality and models of 'welfare-to-work' (Dwyer and Wright 2014, Raffass 2017, Brady 2018). This has been enabled by policy discourses that construct poverty and unemployment as the result of 'personal failure and poor social behaviour, facilitated by expensive benefits payments that make few demands of recipients' (Wiggan 2012: 384). Unravelling the policy discourse makes it possible to understand what is framed as the problem that requires intervention (Bacchi 2000, Pantazis 2016) and the political and cultural values in which the solutions are embedded (Prior, et al. 2012). Arguably, there is a trend within this area of study to overemphasise 'the constraints imposed by discourse' (Bacchi 2000: 55), which uncritically embraces a Habermasian conceptualisation of 'the public' that too easily dismisses the emergence of other public spheres as arenas for counter-discourses to develop (Fraser, 1990). Self Reliant Groups (SRGs) represent an example of such alternative enactments.
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Hill O'Connor, Clementine
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Item type: Article ID code: 80277 Dates: DateEvent12 January 2022Published12 January 2022AcceptedKeywords: discourse, social security policy, regroupment, self-reliance, poverty, unemployment, women, self-reliant groups (SRGs), counterpublic, UK social security policy, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Subjects: Social Sciences Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 25 Apr 2022 13:00 Last modified: 01 Nov 2023 11:52 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/80277