The Emotional Politics of Social Work and Child Protection / / Joanne Warner.

For several decades, social work and child protection systems have been subject to accelerating cycles of crisis and reform, with each crisis involving intense media and political scrutiny. In understanding the nature and causes of this cycle, little attention has been paid to the importance of coll...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Notes on the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introducing emotional politics
  • ‘Heads must roll’? The politics of national anger and the press
  • Hidden in plain sight: poverty and the politics of disgust
  • From crisis to reform: the emotional politics of child rescue and commemoration
  • Risk, respectability and the emotional politics of class
  • The emotionality of official documents: the serious case review as an active text
  • Comparative perspectives: cultures of difference and convergence
  • Towards a new emotional politics of social work and child protection
  • Using qualitative document analysis techniques to analyse media and political accounts
  • References
  • Index