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Title: Risk, governmentality and insurance: the actuarial re-casting of social work
Author/Creator: Webb, Stephen A.
Description: This chapter examines how normative technologies of power are emerging in social work that depends on the hardening of risk regulation rationality and strategies of social insurance against dangerous, vulnerable and marginal populations. Taken together, it will be shown how these radical changes amount to a reconfiguring of social work through forms of governmentality that is referred to as actuarialism.
Relation: Evidence-Based Practice: Modernising the Knowledge Base of Social Work? p. 211-225
Relation: http://www.budrich-verlag.de/pages/details.php?ID=223&SID=efd26aa61a95a4abc5e44dfdb6b2af74
Date: 2009
Publisher: Barbara Budrich Publishers
Keyword(s): social work; actuarialism; risk regulation; social insurance
Resource Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35766
Identifier: ISBN:9783866491212
Language: eng

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