Social Policy by Region, Welfare - Service & Policies, Great Britain - General & Miscellaneous - Politics & Government

Imagining Welfare Futures

Name: Imagining Welfare Futures
Author: Gordon Hughes
ISBN: 9780415181365

by Gordon Hughes

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Overview

Imagining Welfare Futures considers the kinds of relationships between the public and the state that will shape the future of social welfare. The late twentieth century was marked by a loss of confidence in the welfare state's capacity to promote the best interests of the nation. Ideas of the public interest, the public realm and public services were subjected to sustained ideological attacks. This book explores the emergence of new representations of the public, based around the figures of the consumer, the community and the citizen. It examines the possibilities and problems associated with each of these as ways of imagining the relationships between the state, the public and social welfare. Imagining Welfare Futures is a specially designed teaching text.

Synopsis

Imagining Welfare Futures explores possible futures of welfare by considering different types of relationship between the public and the state through which social welfare may be organized beyond the millennium. By drawing on contemporary debates about the 'citizen', 'the community' and 'the consumer', the book explores what each of these imaginary figures might mean for the next generation of welfare users.