Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare (Paperback, New)

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.