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In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue
of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use
original research and international case studies to explore this
topic in depth. The book is rooted in original qualitative research
the authors conducted with a diverse sample of children (aged eight
to eleven) across Wales, but this data is also located in the
context of existing international research on place identity. The
book features analysis of lively exchanges between children on
their local, national and global identities, politics, language and
race. It engages with important social and political questions such
as whether cultural distinctiveness can be preserved in a context
of globalization, whether we are destined to passively receive
dominant representations of the nation or can creatively construct
our own versions; and whether national identities are necessarily
exclusive. Most importantly, the book focuses on what local and
national identities mean to children in an era of cultural and
economic globalization. Including material on racialization,
language, politics, class and gender, Children, Place and Identity
will be a valuable resource to students and researchers of
childhood studies and the sociology of childhood.
In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue
of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use
original research and international case studies to explore this
topic in depth. The book is rooted in original qualitative research
the authors conducted with a diverse sample of children (aged eight
to eleven) across Wales, but this data is also located in the
context of existing international research on place identity. The
book features analysis of lively exchanges between children on
their local, national and global identities, politics, language and
race. It engages with important social and political questions such
as whether cultural distinctiveness can be preserved in a context
of globalization, whether we are destined to passively receive
dominant representations of the nation or can creatively construct
our own versions; and whether national identities are necessarily
exclusive. Most importantly, the book focuses on what local and
national identities mean to children in an era of cultural and
economic globalization. Including material on racialization,
language, politics, class and gender, Children, Place and Identity
will be a valuable resource to students and researchers of
childhood studies and the sociology of childhood.
Privatisation and Social Policy follows this format while
addressing one of the key issues of recent years, namely the covert
but undeniable impact of growing privatisation on the development
and implementation of social policy. As the text demonstrates,
there is no area of policy which privatisation has not affected,
resulting in the gradual transfer of responsibility from the public
to the private sphere in areas such as education, housing, health,
social security and social services.
Social Policy and Privatisation addresses one of the key issues of
recent years, namely the covert but undeniable impact of growing
privatisation on the development and implementation of social
policy. As the text demonstrates, there is no area of policy which
privatisation has not affected, resulting in the gradual transfer
of responsibility from the public to the private sphere in areas
such as education, housing, health, social security and social
services.
The public inquiry that followed the death of Maria Colwell had
profound implications for the developing profession and practice of
social work in the UK. This book describes the politics,
professional concerns and public interest - both local and national
- that surrounded the inquiry and its aftermath, and shows how the
concerns of this landmark child abuse case have still failed to
find a satisfactory resolution today. Social work, then and now,
remains 'on trial'.
The public inquiry that followed the death of Maria Colwell had
profound implications for the developing profession and practice of
social work in the UK. This book describes the politics,
professional concerns and public interest - both local and national
- that surrounded the inquiry and its aftermath, and shows how the
concerns of this landmark child abuse case have still failed to
find a satisfactory resolution today. Social work, then and now,
remains 'on trial'.
Scandals do not just happen. They are made. They are constructed
out of such everyday tragedies as the small carelessnesses and
institutional brutality of the long stay hospital, the abuse of
children or the violent deaths of innocent bystanders. This book,
by examining the landmark scandals of the post-war period,
including more recent ones, such as the Victoria Climbie Inquiry,
reveals how scandals are generated, to what purposes they are used
and whose interests they are made to serve. In particular, it
examines the role of the public inquiry, an increasingly familiar
policy device, in the process whereby the 'story' of a particular
scandal is told and its meaning fixed. Using transcripts, press
coverage, materials from the Public Record Office and other
contemporary sources each of the scandals described in the book is
located in its own historical and policy context in order to
explore the complex cause and effect relationship between public
policy and scandal.
This work represents a detailed, researched attempt to investigate
the role which the Probation Service might play in the field of
trial and probation. Using an on-th-ground investigation of current
practise, it looks at those services which can assist courts to
release defendants on bail.
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