| Description |
1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Contents |
The Power of Labelling How People Are Categorized and Whyit Matters; Copyright; Contents; About the Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction. Labelling, Power and Accountability: How and Why 'Our' Categories Matter; 1 Labels, Welfare Regimes and Intermediation: Contesting Formal Power; 2 Labelling People for Aid; 3 The Politics of Representing 'the Poor'; 4 Disjunctures in Labelling Refugees and Oustees; 5 When Labels Stigmatize: Encounters with 'Street Children' and 'Restavecs' in Haiti; 6 Poverty as a Spectator Sport |
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7 'Muslim Women' and 'Moderate Muslims': British Policy and the Strengthening of Religious Absolutist Control over Gender Development8 Black Umbrellas: Labelling and Articulating Development in the Indonesian Mass Media; 9 Labelling 'Works': The Language and Politics of Caste and Tribe in India; 10 Exploring the Intersection of Racial Labels, Rainbow Citizenship and Citizens' Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Afterword: Changing Practice; Index |
| Summary |
The Power of Labelling illuminates a fundamental and intriguing dimension of social and political life. Striking cases from a range of policy contexts generate eyeopening analyses of labelling?s causes and consequences, uses and abuses, and of alternatives in thinking and relating.?DES GASPER, INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES, THE HAGUE?The authors convincingly and often vividly explain how the unavoidable framings and labellings of the objects of policy secrete relations of power which can obscure as much as they reveal and often lead, in policy itself, to perverse outcomes. Their detail is rivet |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Categorization
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Social groups.
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Social groups
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Moncrieffe, Joy
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| ISBN |
9781136552526 |
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1136552529 |
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