The emotional politics of social work and child protection / [electronic resource]
Warner, Joanne,author.
This book introduces the concept of emotional politics. It shows how collective emotions, such as anger, shame, fear and disgust, are generated and reflected by official documents, politicians and the media.
THE EMOTIONAL POLITICS OF SOCIAL WORK AND CHILD PROTECTION; Contents; Notes on the author; Acknowledgements; 1. Introducing emotional politics; Introduction; Background and context; The politics of social work and child protection; How emotions are political; How politics is emotional; The emotional politics of the news ; Risk and emotion in practice and politics; The chapters; 2. 'Heads must roll'? The politics of national anger and the press ; Introduction; 'A ghastly affected intimacy': the power of the press in the politics-media-politics cycle
The alchemy of emotional politics: how sadness becomes angerWhen wounded feelings become public consciousness; 'The power of your feeling is clear': the nation as the subject of feeling; Three fathers and a shameless woman; Conclusion ; 3. Hidden in plain sight: poverty and the politics of disgust; Introduction; Social work, the underclass and moral regulation of the dangerous Other; 'Glimpses of an earthly hell' ; 'Tick-box' social work, common sense and the invisibility of suffering ; A mother's instinct, transgression and the impulse to rescue; Conclusion
4. From crisis to reform: the emotional politics of child rescue and commemorationIntroduction; A 'sad army of little children': collective memory and the politics of false hope; The emotional politics of child rescue through reform; The emotional politics of interest representation; Conclusion; 5. Risk, respectability and the emotional politics of class; Constituting respectable identities: the emotional politics of disgust revisited; The responsible 'us' versus the incapable 'them': social work, moral regulation and the middle class
Moral regulation and the 'crisis' of middle-class parentingThe myth of the Cleveland affair and the politician as envoy of fear; Conclusion; 6. The emotionality of official documents: the serious case review as an active text; Introduction; Social work as documented practice and the active text; Serious case reviews: their intended function and proposals for reform; Serious case reviews in the politics-media-politics cycle; Activating 'new' authoritative practice and moral regulation ; What might have been: the hindsight fallacy and counterfactual emotions; Conclusion
7. Comparative perspectives: cultures of difference and convergenceIntroduction; Complexity and convergence across child welfare systems; Australasia (focusing on Australia and New Zealand): colonial discourse and mechanisms of blame; The Netherlands: from interventions 'as light as possible' to 'as heavy as needed'; Sweden's two ghosts that haunt the system; The US - New York City and the rollercoaster of child welfare; Conclusion; 8. Towards a new emotional politics of social work and child protection; Introduction; The main arguments of the book
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book introduces the concept of emotional politics. It shows how collective emotions, such as anger, shame, fear and disgust, are generated and reflected by official documents, politicians and the media.
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