Who is the Monster? Welfare Agencies’ Suspension of Power

Helene Ratner and Kaspar Villadsen
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Helene Ratner: Copenhagen Business School
Kaspar Villadsen: Copenhagen Business School

Chapter 9 in Hybrid Forms of Governance, 2012, pp 167-185 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Welfare institutions and their programmes for help often rest upon naturalized ideas about how to transform the citizen. However, they may act out these as markedly colliding rationalities (Andersen 2008). This mechanism is also true for institutions that care for highly marginalized groups such as the homeless. These institutions employ ‘help programmes’ that construct the homeless through their own internal criteria of what counts as needs, motivation and client-development. Several incompatible programmes may exist across different re-housing institutions, constructing the ‘roles’ of helper and client in radically different ways. By exploring how different welfare institutions suspend and hybridize logics of help, this chapter questions the possibility of realizing the ideal of social integration, a core value of the welfare system.

Keywords: Action Plan; Welfare State; Care Programme; Hybrid Form; Homeless Person (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230363007_10

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