Humanitarian Narrative: Bodies and Detail in Late-Victorian Social Work
Humanitarian Narrative: Bodies and Detail in Late-Victorian Social Work
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人道主义叙事：维多利亚晚期社会工作的主体和细节
DOI：
10.1093/bjsw/bcm124
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Carolyn Taylor
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作者：
Carolyn Taylor
我们应该如何解读早期社会工作的人道主义叙事？本文建议我们探索机构和细节如何被用来建立维多利亚晚期人道主义行动的基础。根据曼彻斯特和索尔福德一家儿童福利组织提供的案例材料，该报告探讨了如何利用孩子肮脏的身体和一文不值的父母的失败来证明干预措施是合理的，以将儿童从城市贫民窟中拯救出来。因此，对历史的进步主义和修正主义的描述被摒弃，取而代之的是一种文化史形式，它承认过去和现在的社会工作中的各种活动，以及在干预穷人生活的实践中所采用的分类的流动性。有人认为，这让我们摆脱了专注于与慈善组织协会和大都会等少数知名组织有关的次要来源的倾向。取而代之的是，强调区域历史和本地化、细粒度的实证研究对拓宽分析方法和加深对过去和现在社会工作的理解的贡献。
How should we interpret the humanitarian narratives of early social work? This article suggests that we explore the ways in which bodies and detail were used to establish the grounds for humanitarian action in the late-Victorian period. Drawing on case material from a child welfare organization in Manchester and Salford, it explores how the ‘filthy body’ of the child and the failings of ‘worthless’ parents were used to justify interventions to ‘rescue’ children from urban slums. Thus, progressivist and revisionist accounts of history are dispensed with in favour of a form of cultural history that recognizes the multifarious activities that comprise social work past and present and the fluidity of categorizations that are deployed in the practice of intervening in the flow of lives of the poor. This, it is argued, moves us beyond the tendency to focus on secondary sources relating to a few prominent organizations such as the Charity Organisation Society and the metropolis. Instead, emphasis is placed on the contribution of regional histories and localized, fine-grained empirical studies to broadening analytical approaches and deepening understanding of social work past and present.