Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1177/02610183221120547d
I. Cummins
political, economic and ideological background of the countries under consideration. For example, we are told that India is ‘still far from ratifying C189’ (p.33), or that the requests of Ecuadorian ‘domestic workers to make formal rights a reality were not taken up by the state’ (p.41), but the authors provide no information as to why. For a book which is about domestic workers, their voices seem strangely absent; they are heard only via their representatives, but not directly. The book focuses on the responses to Convention 189 of institutions and organisations (governments, trade unions, NGOs). Of the 200 ‘key informants, such as activists, organisers, policy makers, legal professionals and experts’ who were interviewed during the research project on which the book is based, only a minority (22 out of 200) had had experience of working as domestic workers (p.16). This may be due to the remit of the research but is jarring, especially considering the stress placed in the book on self-organization and empowerment. Giving preferential voice to organisers, academics and other ‘experts’ seems to be reinforcing the top down channels of knowledge formation that underpin constituted power relations. Nevertheless, the book is valuable in providing a bird’s eye view of the organised struggles of domestic workers globally. In doing so, it helps highlight the problems faced by multiply marginalised groups. Domestic workers’ experiences of different fronts of oppression as women, carers, marginalised workers, migrants, racialized minorities, and their demands for economic, legal, social and cultural recognition may help, the authors suggest, create a ‘space of convergence’ for movements that have traditionally been seen as separate. By challenging the boundaries between feminist struggles, labour movements and identity based activism, this book reminds us of the importance of building and deepening alliances that can better push for societal changes and equitable social policies.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1177/02610183221120547b
R. Sen
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Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1177/02610183221120547c
A. Silvestri
almost two hundred years of history. The earlier historical coverage usefully sets the scene, but the coverage is skewed, no doubt intentionally, towards producing a history of the system’s operation since the late 1970s onwards. The book is set out chronologically, which suits its overall goal, but I found that there were occasionally thematic links within, and between, chapters that might have been tied together. Perhaps these links could have been better addressed in the concluding chapter or better signposted at the start or end of a given chapter. Despite this very small criticism, this text is an engrossing read, passionately written with a good dose of hope, yet incisive about the frustrated attempts to enact radical reform in Aotearoa. A Political History of Child Protection will be of value to students, academics and policy makers seeking to gain an in-depth understanding of child protection system and attempts at its reform in Aotearoa, as well as to those seeking lessons about the challenges of systemic child protection reform internationally.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1177/02610183221120547e
Katy Gordon
and economic policies that increased inequality, reduced welfare payments and entitlement, and cut services. These are all factors that contribute to higher levels of mental distress across society Moth’s research demonstrates how professionals focus on service users becoming ‘responsible consumers’ who manage their own risk. In these twin processes, a broader social approach to mental distress that explores the social determinants of health (Karban, 2016) is lost. These trends have been exacerbated by austerity which saw further welfare retrenchment and measures that were specifically targeted at people living with disabilities. One of the striking features of this volume is that there are significant overlaps between the views of service users and CHMT staff. Both groups recognize mental health services are replicating some of the failings of institutionalized psychiatry. Modern mental health work has become defensive casework and risk management with a focus on compliance with medication. Moth concludes that the challenge to this approach will not come from service reforms that are rooted in neoliberal policy agendas. This can only come from progressive alliances that focus on promoting relationship-based work and a focus on broader social justice.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1177/02610183221120547a
Hannah Haycox
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Pub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.1177/02610183221125390
A. Henson, Jessica Rosenthal
The police killings of unarmed Black men and women, particularly in the year 2020, fueled a moral outcry for defunding the police. The defund movement asserts that divested police funds should be invested in communities most devastated by hyper-policing. However, decisions on which community services to finance are often void of community input. To fill this gap, the current study highlights responses from 50 Black fathers living in southwest Philadelphia on community resources necessary for themselves and their children to live safe and prosperous lives. The men explained that, to enhance public safety and recover from the devastation of social stigmatization and marginalization, funds need to be invested in resources beyond the ‘basics' (i.e., housing, employment, health care). Specifically, the fathers wanted local educational and entrepreneurial opportunities that would allow community members to demonstrate their full potential. The current study informs policymakers on the importance of building community capacity rather than focusing solely on service delivery.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1177/02610183221125322
Abigail Williams-Butler
This critical review uses the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism to understand the racialized, gendered, and class-based oppression regarding the overrepresentation of poor Black women, children, and families within child protective services (CPS) in the United States. The review begins with a discussion of intersectionality and examines the origins of CPS, along with the potential causes for overrepresentation within the system. Finally, the article presents a detailed overview of how structural gendered racism is manifested within CPS practices and policies. It is imperative that practitioners, administrators, and policymakers acknowledge the utility of applying the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism in understanding the disproportionate contact of poor Black women, children, and families within the system. It is important to work toward practice and policy interventions to improve the overall well-being of this population. Implications for social work practice and policy are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1177/02610183221120547
Steve Rogowski
As one might expect from Peter Beresford, this is an important book that explores the exclusionary nature of prevailing political ideologies and argues for participatory approaches. As the blurb states, it brings together theory, practice and the relationship between participation, political ideology and social welfare to offer a practical guide for change. I certainly recommend it. The preface highlights how Covid-19, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements and renewed action against climate change have led to grassroots pressure for global political and social change. This is opposed by market-driven neoliberalism and right-wing populism which highlights the gulf between dominant narrowly based political ideologies and popular demands for social justice, environmentalism and human rights. The book goes on to examine the exclusionary nature of prevailing political ideologies at a time of increased interest in grassroots citizen participation, instead arguing for more participatory approaches in public policy and practice. The text is divided into three parts which respectively focus on ideology, participation and challenging dominant ideologies through participatory action. Part 1 has three chapters examining, for example, political ideology, ideology’s relationship with individuals and the (lack of) participation by people in shaping ideology. There is also an interesting discussion on ‘our ideological inheritance’ including nationalism, colonialism and social liberalism, together with last century’s fascism and communism. Part 2 has two chapters focusing on reconnecting ideology and participation with a key question being can ideology be liberatory without participation? In answering this, Book Reviews
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Pub Date : 2022-09-04DOI: 10.1177/02610183221119717
L. Ruggi, N. Duvvury
Since 2014, gender equality has gained momentum in Irish higher education. Feminist organising and media attention resulted in an ‘almost-perfect storm of pressure’ to which the state responded by developing an ‘ambitious and radical’ policy. Employing Bacchi's methodology (WPR), this article demonstrates the problem of gender inequality has been gradually narrowed to address the lack of ‘women’ in senior positions. Competing problematisations were marginalised. The unequal distribution of care work in and out of higher education was ignored, silencing the gendered experiences of academics and non-academics, particularly precarious and outsourced staff. The policy machinery is found to reduce gender transformation to state-led stages and sideline feminist demands, highlighting the need to investigate the role of gender expertise and national statistics. The focus on the glass ceiling (a trend across Europe) is a form of ‘gender branding’ drawing on and reproducing neo-colonial progress-scales while stalling intersectional agendas.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-31DOI: 10.1177/02610183221119718
Getu Demeke Alene, J. Duncan, H. Dijk
Drawing on an analysis of the implementation of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in the Somali periphery, we consider how the programme is promoted as an ‘innovative’ social protection programme that links food security with development projects. Underpinning its ‘innovative’ role is a community-based approach, focusing upon the institutions, values and capacities of a community. Taking the case of the nomadic pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Somali region, we consider the role of clans as the ‘dominant’ grassroot socio-political organizations. Our analysis, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork shows how in the implementation of PSNP the mobilization and (re)deployment of clanship values and rules create legible and governable Somali pastoral subjects. This is in line with the Ethiopian state’s conception of ‘improvement’ and ‘modern’ way of life based on sedentary-based development and governance. We illustrate how clan leaders unwittingly (re)organize their clan (leadership) values and capacities to support this project. We argue that clan-based implementation of PSNP has become an ‘effective’ mechanism of extending state power and governing nomadic pastoralists, leading to changes in relations of authority and in forms of (inter)subjectivity between pastoralists, their clan (leaders) and the state. Towards this end, we put forward the concept of ‘government through clanship’ to reflect the assemblage of these practices, processes and changes which would offer critical analytical insights into social policies claimed to be community-based.
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