Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare
Social policy and political theory are based upon rationalist models of the human subject. Drawing particularly upon contemporary Kleinian and feminist political theory the author explores the powerful role that emotions such as love, hate and fear play i
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Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare
Also by Paul Haggett CONTESTED COMMUNITIES ORGANISING AROUND ENTHUSIASMS (with Jeff Bishop) PARTISANS IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD THE POLITICS OF DECENTRALISATION (with Danny Burns and Robin Hambleton)
Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare Paul Haggett
Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research University of the West of England Bristol
Foreword by Fiona Williams
Professor of Social Policy University of Leeds
Consultant Editor: ]o Campling
First published in Great Britain 2000 by
MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstokc, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-1-349-41400-0 ISBN 978-0-230-59781-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230597815 First published in the United States of America 2000 by
ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, LLC, Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York. N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-23530-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hoggett, Paul. Emotional life and the politics of welfare I Paul Hoggett ; foreword by Fiona Williams. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-23530-7 I. Welfare state-Psychological aspects. 2. Public welfare-Psychological aspects. 3. Emotions- Sociological aspects. 4. Social psychology. 5. Social policy. I. Title. JC479 .H64 2000 361.6'5-dc21 00-038235 © Paul Hoggett 2000 Foreword([: Fiona Williams 2000
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Contents ix
Foreword by Fiona Williams Acknowledgements
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Unreasonable Subjects
2
Strangers to Ourselves?
22
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Conflict, Difference and Dialogue
45
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A Place for Experience
67
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Building Castles in the Sand: Racial and Ethnic Identities in Civil Society
86
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Finding Your Voice
103
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Mobilising Fictions
124
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The Internal Establishment
143
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Hatred of Dependency
159
Ethical Foundations of Welfare Universalism
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References
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Index
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Foreword
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