Metaphor, morality and myth: a critical discourse analysis of public housing policy in Queensland

Marston, Greg

doi:10.1177/026101830002000305

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“…Hence, providing new facts does not seem to solve a situation in which responsibilities are unclear. In line with Weick [33] and other authors working in the tradition of interpretative studies [11,17,20,22,30] we believe that new facts will not solve the problem of ambiguous responsibilities. Instead, we propose a relational approach to working with responsibilities.…”

Section: Moral Learning In Interpretive Practicessupporting

confidence: 75%

Moral Learning in an Integrated Social and Healthcare Service Network

2011

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The traditional organizational boundaries between healthcare, social work, police and other non-profit organizations are fading and being replaced by new relational patterns among a variety of disciplines. Professionals work from their own history, role, values and relationships. It is often unclear who is responsible for what because this new network structure requires rules and procedures to be re-interpreted and re-negotiated. A new moral climate needs to be developed, particularly in the early stages of integrated services. Who should do what, with whom and why? Departing from a relational and hermeneutic perspective, this article shows that professionals in integrated service networks embark upon a moral learning process when starting to work together for the client's benefit. In this context, instrumental ways of thinking about responsibilities are actually counterproductive. Instead, professionals need to find out who they are in relation to other professionals, what core values they share and what responsibilities derive from these aspects. This article demonstrates moral learning by examining the case of an integrated social service network. The network's development and implementation were supported by responsive evaluation, enriched by insights of care ethics and hermeneutic ethics.

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Section: Moral Learning In Interpretive Practicessupporting

confidence: 75%

Moral Learning in an Integrated Social and Healthcare Service Network

2011

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“…Policy reconstructions move beyond legislative, organisational and financial change to encompass linguistic and discursive strategies. Put simply, language performs ideological work (Marston, 2000) and is continuously performing policy work.…”

Section: Social Policy Methodoltry and The Linguistic Tur Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Welfare State to Social Development: Winning the War of Words in New Zealand

Lunt¹

2008

Social Policy & Society

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This paper examines how 'welfare state' and 'welfare' have been displaced by a 'social development' agenda within New Zealand. The discussion outlines a growing attention to language and the place of vocabulary and discourse as a valid research agenda. The paper then traces the end of welfare and the rise of 'social development' , assessing the impact on citizenship debates. It suggests reasons why 'social development' must be handled carefully given its assumptions around temporality, its elevation of the market, the diminishing of the social, the stunted vision of development and its peculiar view of progress.

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“…Increasingly then, researchers are exploring how policy problems are constructed: whose language is being used, to what end (i.e., the ideological positioning of policy and its intent), and by extension, how identities are constructed in policy documents (Colley & Hodkinson, 2001;Marston, 2000). The secondary analysis presented in this paper seeks to explore the link between policy intent and the lived reality of Māori whānau.…”

Section: Secondary Analysis: Alignment Of Research Findings With the mentioning

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Whānau Ora; He Whakaaro Ā Whānau: Māori Family Views of Family Wellbeing

Boulton

Gifford

2014

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This article presents the findings from two studies that investigated the concept of whānau ora (family wellbeing): One examined the nature of resilience for Māori whānau and how resilience relates to whānau ora; while the second investigated the impact of the Working for Families policy on Māori families' perceptions of whānau ora. In each study, Māori were asked to define whānau ora for their family. The responses to the "whānau ora" definition question in each of the studies were separated out to derive a unique dataset of 46 whānau definitions of whānau ora. A secondary analysis of responses was undertaken specifically for this article and these were compared to the whānau ora outcome definition outlined in the Report of the Taskforce on Whānau-Centred Initiatives (Taskforce on Whānau-Centred Initiatives, 2010). The degree of concordance between the definitions of whānau ora expressed by Māori families and those espoused by the government's Taskforce is outlined. The article discusses the variability in understandings around whānau ora and the implications of our analysis for social service delivery and social policy development.

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Metaphor, morality and myth: a critical discourse analysis of public housing policy in Queensland

Cited by 73 publications

References 11 publications

Moral Learning in an Integrated Social and Healthcare Service Network

Moral Learning in an Integrated Social and Healthcare Service Network

From Welfare State to Social Development: Winning the War of Words in New Zealand

Whānau Ora; He Whakaaro Ā Whānau: Māori Family Views of Family Wellbeing

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