Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community
Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community
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危机社会政策和社区概念的复原力
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2012
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S. Neal
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L. Hancock;G. Mooney;S. Neal
本文考虑了在当代英国社会政策制定和更广泛的政治评论中社区概念的持续弹性。特别关注社区在“大”和“破碎”社会的叙述中消极和积极地调用和动员的方式，它考虑了为什么社区的概念，在前新工党政府中如此受欢迎，继续迷住了现在的英国联合政府，并在经济危机和“紧缩”措施的背景下得到了更多的共鸣。本文认为，将社区置于当前福利提供的核心，说明了英国政府决策议程中的一些紧张关系。通过对利物浦的讨论——曾经是一个大的社会“实验室”——我们强调了自上而下的、对社区的非政治化理解与社区参与的类型之间的矛盾，特别是在贫穷、弱势社区。这些社区也是英国政府“紧缩”措施影响最明显的地方。
This paper considers the continuing resilience of the notion of community in social policy making and wider political commentary in the contemporary UK. Focusing in particular on the ways in which community is negatively and positively invoked and mobilized in narratives of the ‘big’ and ‘broken’ societies, it considers why the notion of community, so popular with the previous New Labour government, continues to enchant the present UK Coalition government and has been given added resonance in the context of the economic crisis and of the ‘austerity’ measures currently being adopted. The paper argues that placing community at the heart of current welfare provision illuminates a number of tensions in the UK government’s policy-making agenda. Informed by a discussion of Liverpool – once one of the big society ‘laboratories’ – we highlight the contradictions between top-down, depoliticized understandings of community and the types of community engagement and participation that are to be found in poor, disadvantaged communities in particular. Such communities are also where the impact of UK government ‘austerity’ measures are being most keenly felt.