ISBN:
9781536112993
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
Series Statement:
Social Perspectives of Aging
Parallel Title:
Print version Powell, Jason L Aging and Social Policy: A Foucauldian Excursion
DDC:
305.2601
Keywords:
Older people - Government policy
Abstract:
Intro -- AGING AND SOCIAL POLICY: A FOUCAULDIAN EXCURSION -- AGING AND SOCIAL POLICY: A FOUCAULDIAN EXCURSION -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ARGUMENT -- i) Policy Context: A Critical Introduction and Review. -- ii) The Social Construction of Aging -- iii) Histories of the Present‟ -- iv) Surveillance, Power/Knowledge and the Policing of Subjects -- v) Reconstructing Aging -- RATIONALE FOR THE RESEARCH:A POVERTY OF THEORETICAL GERONTOLOGY -- i) Gerontology as „Science‟ -- ii) Gerontology as Policy -- iii) Gerontology as „Theoretically Sterile‟? -- THE FOUCAULT „EFFECT‟:DISCOURSE, SUBJECT POSITIONING AND POWER -- Discoursing Subjects and Relevance to Aging Studies -- Subjectivity, Power/Knowledge and „Practices‟ of Discourse -- A FOUCAULDIAN „TOOLKIT‟ OF ANALYSIS:ARCHAEOLOGY AND GENEALOGY -- Chapter 1: THE NHS AND COMMUNITY CARE ACT (1990) IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: A CRITICAL REVIEW -- THE POLITICAL BACKDROP TO EMERGENCE OF THE NHS AND COMMUNITY CARE ACT (1990) IN THE UK -- ON THE ROAD TO CARE REFORM: COMMUNITY CARE PLC? -- RHETORIC OR REALITY? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: SOCIAL THEORY AND THE AGING BODY: THE IMPORTANCE OF THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- OLD AGE AND THE BODY -- PHYSICAL APPEARANCE AND AGING -- BIO-MEDICINE AND THE BODY: THE TRUTH, WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? -- GENDER AND THE AGING BODY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: AGING AND SOCIAL THEORY: A SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL THEORY AND THE RISE OF FUNCTIONALIST ACCOUNTS OF AGE AND AGING -- POLITICAL ECONOMY -- FEMINIST GERONTOLOGY -- POSTMODERN GERONTOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: ARCHAEOLOGY AND GENEALOGY: DEVELOPMENTS IN FOUCAULDIAN GERONTOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- UNDERSTANDING FOUCAULT -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND AGING -- GENEALOGY AND AGING -- CONCLUSION
Abstract:
REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: FOUCAULT, SOCIAL WORK AND POWER -- INTRODUCTION -- ENTER FOUCAULT… -- THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK IN THEUNITED KINGDOM DURING THE 21ST CENTURY -- SURVEILLANCE AND DISCRETION:EXEMPLARS OF ICT AND PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY -- (i) Surveillance -- (ii) Discretion -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: THE CHANGING HISTORY OF SOCIAL WORK WITH OLDER PEOPLE: A FOUCAULDIAN EXCURSION -- FOUCAULT AND OLD AGE: A CONCEPTUAL "TOOLKIT" -- OLD AGE AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE POST-SECOND WORLD WAR CONSENSUS -- TECHNOLOGIES OF SOCIAL WORK I: PSYCHO-CASEWORK -- A SHIFT IN DISCOURSE: MARKETIZATION AND THEPOLITICS OF OLD AGE -- TECHNOLOGIES OF SOCIAL WORK II: CASE/CARE MANAGEMENT -- SOCIAL EXCLUSION BEYOND THE MARKET -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: GOVERNMENTALITY AND AGING -- INTRODUCTION -- A FOUCAULDIAN ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL POLICY FOR OLDER PEOPLE: THE CASE OF THE NHS AND COMMUNITY CARE ACT -- THE FOUCAULDIAN NOTION OF GOVERNMENTALITY -- EXAMPLES OF IMPLEMENTING POLICY AND PRACTICEFOR OLDER PEOPLE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: HOW IS OLD AGE MANAGED? THE DISCIPLINARY WEB OF POWER, SURVEILLANCE AND NORMALISATION -- FOUCAULT, SURVEILLANCE, AND GERONTOLOGY -- MEDICAL POWER AND AGING -- ASSESSMENT, SURVEILLANCE, AND RESISTANCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: FOUCAULDIAN ANALYSIS OF COMMUNITY CARE -- THE 'DISCOVERY' OF ELDER ABUSE -- FOUCAULT'S METHODOLOGICAL 'BOX OF TOOLS' -- FOUCAULT AND THE SURVEILLANCE CULTURE -- ELDER ABUSE AND THE DOMAIN OF COMMUNITY CARE -- QUESTIONS OF MORALITY -- THE TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE MANAGEMENT -- THE APPEARANCE OF 'ELDER ABUSE' POLICY -- THE PANOPTIC CULTURE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: TECHNOLOGIES OF SELF AND AGING -- BIOMEDICINE, SOCIOLOGY AND THE CONTESTATION OF „TRUTH‟ -- FOUCAULT, TECHNOLOGIES OF SELF AND AGING -- PROBLEMATIZING AGING AND ILLNESS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES
Abstract:
CONCLUSION -- STRENGTHS OF FOUCAULDIAN APPROACHES IN GERONTOLOGY -- WEAKNESSES OF FOUCAULDIAN GERONTOLOGY -- INDEX
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