Advocating Co-Productive Engagement with Marginalised People: A specific perspective on and by survivors of childhood sexual abuse
Advocating Co-Productive Engagement with Marginalised People: A specific perspective on and by survivors of childhood sexual abuse
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DOI:
10.1093/bjsw/bcx149
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发表时间:
2018-10-01
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
Moss, Sally
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作者:
Fisher, Pamela;Balfour, Bob;Moss, Sally
Co-production is gaining ground as a key dimension of public policy reform across the globe. This paper argues in favour of social welfare shaped by the principles of co-production and suggests that the promotion of democratic relationships is more likely to enable the agency and recovery of victim-survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The paper, based on an autoethnographical approach, is likely to be of relevance to social care practitioners who work with a range of marginalised people, particularly in liberal states that promote organisational cultures shaped disproportionately by risk. Cultures of risk, it is argued, promote power balances and othering-arguably an institutional perpetuation of the original abuse. Co-production, on the other hand, has the potential to legitimise expertise by experience, enabling victim-survivors to be reinstated as citizens with associated rights of participation. The paper subsequently draws out some of the benefits of co-production for practitioners whose professional engagement may be stifled. We suggest that co-production potentially points towards practice based on the valuing of expertise by experience and social solidarity.