The translation of needs into rights: Reconceptualising social citizenship as a global phenomenon

Dean, Hartley

doi:10.1111/ijsw.12032

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“…These networks could then be considered as potentially very powerful instruments for helping to reduce social exclusion. In our view, the evaluation of the effectiveness of these service delivering networks at the client level must also be about providing an adequate collective response for connecting with the needs, concerns and the lifeworld of those people who are no longer willing or able to make use of the welfare services that are produced for them because they consider these services as non‐supportive or too forceful with regard to their personal situation (Allen ; Dean ).…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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Networks for Welfare Provision: Getting a Grip on Processes of Social Exclusion by Evaluating Network Effectiveness

2016

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It has been repeatedly stated that the topic of network effectiveness has often been neglected. This has led to a situation of ‘network euphoria’ amongst practitioners and policymakers with regard to the creation of networks as a means to (re‐)organize welfare provision. Starting from a case study of networks for welfare provision in two Belgian cities, this article focuses on the effectiveness of service delivering networks at the client level, which is understood as the contribution of the network in improving the conditions of life of those being served or targeted by the network. Therefore, we focused on the collective efforts via these networks (e.g. by creating a night shelter or by conducting case consultations) to look after a population of homeless people who face multiple problems and are not able yet to benefit from welfare provision. Our findings revealed that these networks were able to realize a ‘collaborative advantage’ by filling in service gaps and by overcoming fragmentation of care. Nevertheless, these networks equally maintained criteria that restricted the accessibility or usefulness of welfare services provided to homeless people. In the concluding section, we highlight some of the factors that could help us to explain our findings and highlight the tension between the effectiveness of networks at the client level and the effectiveness at the organizational level.

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Networks for Welfare Provision: Getting a Grip on Processes of Social Exclusion by Evaluating Network Effectiveness

2016

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“…Consequently, the potential of social work might be situated in supporting the creation of cultural forums in which people in poverty can meet one another, collaboratively discuss experiences of injustice in different life domains, and represent and discuss these insights, perspectives, and concerns with/in society (Boone, Roets, & Roose, ). Social work practitioners can, thus, not only be deeply involved in participatory ventures in which people in poverty can voice their experiences of injustice and powerlessness in their everyday lives but can also create opportunities in which the perspectives of “those silent and oppressed groups” (Dean, : 134) are represented in the public debate. By the engagement in such “politics of representation,” social and public debate about the problem of poverty and fighting strategies can be stimulated.…”

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Learning to play chess: How to make sense of a politics of representation with people in poverty

2019

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Despite the growing involvement of people in poverty in social policy, their participation does not necessarily take place on a par with policymakers, as the latter often do not really embrace their demands for social justice. It is, therefore, argued that social work has a role to play in the process of merging knowledge of people in poverty with that of policymakers and other stakeholders by representing their perspectives in public debate. By drawing on an in‐depth qualitative research of five “Associations where People in Poverty Raise their Voice” (Belgium), the complexity of the direct participation of people in poverty in such a politics of representation is analyzed, as well as the different roles social work practitioners can take on in dealing with this complexity. Here, two roles are distinguished: “a guardian of collective and transformative elements”; and “a strategical chess player.” We conclude that practitioners need to reflect critically on participatory premises and practices and consider whether these strategies actually contribute to societal change. However, the ideal of parity of participation entails that such strategic considerations should always be collaboratively discussed with people in poverty.

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“…Even when recognised as a component of our human rights under the UN's Universal Declaration of Rights, social rights have been referred to as 'second generation' rights (Eide, 2001); rights that could only be contemplated when 'first generation' civil and political freedoms had been won. It has lately been argued that social rights should be thought of as having preceded civil and political rights (Isin et al, 2008): that it is as social beings that we recognise the claims that others make upon us and that we might make upon them (Dean, 2013). The claims that human beings make upon the Earth's resources were initially framed as customary rights; rights founded on social negotiation and mutual respect in order that human beings might survive.…”

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“…By and large environmental rights are regarded as a broad category of human rights, rhetorically defined or defined with reference to existing strands or 'generations' of rights within the international human rights framework. But this chapter is concerned with the environmental rights as social rights; rights grounded in sociality and which are subject to specific and ongoing processes of negotiation; rights grounded in a postMarshallian conception of social citizenship as a quotidian human practice or process (Dean, 2013). To that end, we may take the two taxonomies outlined above and consider how differing constructions of human need engage with or inform a variety of ecological discourses.…”

Section: Social-ecological Praxismentioning

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Social rights and natural resources

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2014

International Handbook on Social Policy and the Environment

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The translation of needs into rights: Reconceptualising social citizenship as a global phenomenon

Cited by 43 publications

References 52 publications

Networks for Welfare Provision: Getting a Grip on Processes of Social Exclusion by Evaluating Network Effectiveness

Networks for Welfare Provision: Getting a Grip on Processes of Social Exclusion by Evaluating Network Effectiveness

Learning to play chess: How to make sense of a politics of representation with people in poverty

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