Subversive citizens : power, agency and resistance in public services /: power, agency and resistance in public services. (©2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marian Barnes and David Prior.
• Other Names: Barnes, Marian; Prior, David, 1948-
• Contents: Examining the idea of 'subversion' in public services / Marian Barnes and David Prior -- Policy, power and the potential for counter-agency / David Prior -- Alliances, contention and oppositional consciousness : can public participation generate subversion? / Marian Barnes -- Subversive spheres : neighbourhoods, citizens and the 'new governance' / Helen Sullivan -- Narrating subversion, assembling citizenship / Janet Newman and John Clarke -- Subversive subjects and conditional, earned and denied citizenship / John Flint -- Family intervention projects : sites of subversion and resilience / Sadie Parr and Judy Nixon -- Family decision making : new spaces for participation and resistance / Kate Morris and Gale Burford -- Subversive attachments : gendered, raced and professional realignments in the 'new' NHS / Shona Hunter -- Managerialism subverted? Exploring the activity of youth justice practitioners / Nathan Hughes -- Awkward customers? Policing in a consumer age / Louise Westmarland and John Clarke -- 'Subversion' and the analysis of public policy / David Prior and Marian Barnes.
• Publisher Details: Bristol Portland, OR : Policy Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 361.941; Human services -- Great Britain; Human services personnel -- Great Britain; Social problems -- Great Britain; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General; Human services; Human services personnel; Social policy; Social problems; Great Britain -- Social policy; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847422095; 1847422098
• Related ISBNs: 9781847422088; 184742208X; 9781847422071; 1847422071
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.