Towards a Spatial Social Policy : : Bridging the Gap Between Geography and Social Policy /

Towards a Spatial Social Policy : : Bridging the Gap Between Geography and Social Policy / / ed. by Adam Whitworth.

Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography, the role of place in social policy scholarship and practice is frequently overlooked. Bringing together...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Clarke, John,
Harris, Richard,
Jones, Martin,
Minton, Anna,
Orford, Scott,
Philo, Chris,
Pykett, Jessica,
Webb, Brian,
Whitworth, Adam,
Wiggan, Jay,
HerausgeberIn:
Whitworth, Adam,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (226 p.) :; 15 Black and White
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Concepts
  • Spaces of welfare localism: geographies of locality making
  • Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion–inclusion and the spatial history of social policy
  • Themes
  • Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life
  • Re-placing employment support: multi-spatial activation diorama
  • Financialisation, Social Impact Bonds and the making of new market spaces in social policy
  • A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally and neuroscientifically informed public policy
  • Methods
  • Not just nuisance: spatialising social statistics
  • Situating social policy analysis: possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS
  • Retrospective
  • Developing a spatial social policy: taking stock and looking to the future
  • Index

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