Towards a spatial social policy : bridging the gap between geography and social policy / edited by Adam Whitworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitworth, Adam, 1979- editor.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2019.

Summary:

Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography, the role of place in social policy scholarship and practice is frequently overlooked. Bringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of policy scholarship, practice and experience. By building the necessary bridges towards a spatial social policy, this book enables the enhanced design, performance and understanding of social policies once properly rooted in their multiple spatialities.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Concepts

Spaces of welfare localism: geographies of locality making

Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion–inclusion and the spatial history of social policy

Themes

Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life

Re-placing employment support: multi-spatial activation diorama

Financialisation, Social Impact Bonds and the making of new market spaces in social policy

A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally and neuroscientifically informed public policy

Methods

Not just nuisance: spatialising social statistics

Situating social policy analysis: possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS

Retrospective

Developing a spatial social policy: taking stock and looking to the future

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-3794-8

1-4473-3793-X

1-4473-3795-6

1-4473-3792-1

OCLC:

1243412469