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Intro -- RETHINKING SOCIAL WELFARE -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 SURVEILLANCE AND WELFARE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RISE OF PERSONALISATION -- FOUCAULT AND SURVEILLANCE -- THE TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE MANAGEMENT -- THE PANOPTIC CULTURE -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2 GOVERNMENTALITY AND WELFARE -- INTRODUCTION -- TAKING AIM AT GOVERNMENTALITY -- SOCIAL POLICY: CONSTRUCTING THE CONTEXT -- INTEGRATING SERVICES: SOCIAL POLICY AND OLDER PEOPLE -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3 PERFORMATIVITY AND SOCIAL WELFARE -- INTRODUCTION -- PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY -- RETHINKING POWER AND RESISTANCE -- PERFORMATIVITY AND PROFESSIONALISATION -- 'A PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE': SOCIAL WORK, KNOWLEDGE AND SUBJECTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

This article examines some of the main ways in which racism operates through the social security system in Britain, in particular at the connection between entitlement to benefit and immigration control and at the failure of the system to meet specific problems faced by black claim ants. It looks also at the implications for black people of the recent govern ment review of the social security system and the Social Security Bill before parliament at the time of writing. A final section suggests some points for consideration in the development of an anti-racist strategy for welfare benefits.

This unique book traces public views on social citizenship across three decades through attitudinal data from New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. It will be valuable for academics and students in sociology, social policy and political science.

AbstractSince anti‐poverty policy‐making in Belgium is embedded in a logic of user participation, social policy has shown interest in employing users with experience of poverty as experts in public policy units in order to implement and monitor anti‐poverty policies. In this article, we discuss this recent development as a relevant case for contemporary public service delivery in the European context. In the light of the ambiguous practices of user participation in Belgium, the enacted logic of involving service users in public service delivery is discussed, and potential risks and opportunities identified: do these individuals function as pawns or as pioneers? In search of opportunities for the implementation of anti‐poverty policies, we explore different ways in which public policy units can act upon the participation of employed service users in public service delivery. On the level of public service delivery, we argue that the participation of expert users risks their use as a mere blind, de‐responsibilizing those who work in public policy units in providing high‐quality services and being responsive to all service users including those living in poverty. On the level of these individual experts, we argue that the employed service users risk becoming pawns, acquiring a tragic‐optimistic outlook on life.We conclude that enabling service users to participate as pioneers requires the joint and mutual responsibility of the employed service users and those who work in public policy units for implementing and monitoring anti‐poverty strategies rather than exclusive responsibility assigned to individual service users.

This paper is a review of social inclusion in the specification by central government of policy instruments for local government. It forms part of the scooping study on Accessibility and User Needs in Transport (AUNT) funded by the EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment programme. The aim of the study is to produce rigorous methodologies to develop and test sustainable policies and practices that will deliver effective socially inclusive design and operation in urban transport and the public realm from the macro down to the micro level. In particular, this paper forms part of a work package to develop a tool and modelling techniques that can be used to identify the areas and sectors that have high levels of social exclusion, and then facilitate the testing of policy options to assess the extent to which they meet user needs and increase social inclusion. The paper begins with a review of key government documents regarding social exclusion and transport, before going on to discuss how social inclusion is incorporated into local government transport policy.