Social Work and Elder Abuse: A Foucauldian Analysis
Recently, there an accelerating interest in elder abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimise an enforced obligation to care. The use of care management technologies that focus on assessment and in...
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Social Work & Society
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| description | Recently, there an accelerating interest in elder abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimise an enforced obligation to care. The use of care management technologies that focus on assessment and inspection, can, in this policy climate, become a means of surveillance and enforcement of informal caring. It is argued that Michel Foucault offers a set of strategies (Foucault 1977: 205) for understanding how the discourses on community care construct older people's experiences and their identities, as constructed subjects and objects of managerial knowledge. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a515aaa6ae949bd931da494d0c0c0b02022-12-21T20:08:12ZengSocial Work & SocietySocial Work and Society1613-89532012-07-01101Social Work and Elder Abuse: A Foucauldian AnalysisJason L. Powell0University of LiverpoolRecently, there an accelerating interest in elder abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimise an enforced obligation to care. The use of care management technologies that focus on assessment and inspection, can, in this policy climate, become a means of surveillance and enforcement of informal caring. It is argued that Michel Foucault offers a set of strategies (Foucault 1977: 205) for understanding how the discourses on community care construct older people's experiences and their identities, as constructed subjects and objects of managerial knowledge.https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/311Elder Abuse |
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| title | Social Work and Elder Abuse: A Foucauldian Analysis |
| title_full | Social Work and Elder Abuse: A Foucauldian Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Social Work and Elder Abuse: A Foucauldian Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Work and Elder Abuse: A Foucauldian Analysis |
| title_short | Social Work and Elder Abuse: A Foucauldian Analysis |
| title_sort | social work and elder abuse a foucauldian analysis |
| topic | Elder Abuse |
| url | https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/311 |
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