Sue Penna
Biographic Data
| ID | 204826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Penna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Penna |
| SIGNATURE | PENNA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bridge Over the River Crime
This paper examines the significant disparity between the mobility of organised crime and the mobility of law enforcement through the use of Kaufmann's (2002) three categories of motility: access, skills and appropriation. It argues that the differential mobility of organised crime and law enforcement can be accounted for by the differential insertion of these groups of actors into 'the practice and politics of market liberalisation and the pract…
Social exclusion in Europe
In the late 20th and early 21st century, social exclusion has become something of a trope around which is pegged justifications for various reforms. The notion of social exclusion has found its way into the lexicon of all major global governance institutions. How has this happened, and what are its implications for scholars of contemporary welfare reforms? In this article, we consider the ‘rise and rise’ of the discourse of social exclusion, with…
New Theories of Welfare by Tony Fitzpatrick
The Children Act 2004
This article considers the passage of the Children Act 2004 through Parliament. Drawing on recent debates in social science, particularly those concerned with informationalism, governance and cultural political economy, the article examines how welfare policies can be used as a vehicle for pursuing broader political goals. In particular, the development of information, retrieval and tracking systems (IRT) raise questions concerning the rapid grow…
The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts
From Modern to Postmodern Penality
This article responds to a recent article by Hallsworth (2000), which claims that contemporary changes in penal practice indicate the rise of a postmodern penality. We identify three issues raised by Hallsworth's argument, encompassing methodological, empirical and conceptual questions. We argue that his approach exhibits some methodological problems, as well as a conceptual conflation between `postmodernity' as a social formation and `postmodern…
Globalization, social exclusion and the possibilities for global social work and welfare
Social work practice in Europe has developed disparately in the context of separate nation states. Yet it has at the level of professional organization a potentially international orientation. Practice can be understood as having a dual configuration: on the one hand it is idiosyncratic to the culture of nation states; on the other it has a dynamic which incorporates an impulse to include broader supranational concerns. This dual configuration is…
Theorising Welfare
European Policy and the Politics of Environmental Governance
In this paper we focus on identifying some of the important sociological dimensions of the process of environmental governance through a review of European regulatory frameworks and instruments, specifically in regard to the European Union’s Fifth Action Programme on the Environment (5EAP). We show that such policies and the institutions and social networks that promote them are locked into wider social dynamics in the political regulation of Eur…
Postmodernizam i socijalna politika
Termin postmodernizam, koji je tek nedavno uveden u izucavanje socijalne politike, potaknuo je raspravu o njegovoj korisnosti za analizu socijalne politike. Petera Taylora-Goobyja (1994) ocjena literature koja se cesto opisuje kao postmoderna navela je da ju odbaci, smatrajuci da ona malo nudi disciplini socijalne politike. Ovaj clanak pokazuje da takvo glediste proizlazi iz zbrke oko podrucja postmodernizma, a posebice iz spajanja nekoliko razli…
Postmodern theory and politics
In this paper we consider some contributions made by postmodern perspectives to theoretical and political questions of citizenship and social justice. Postmodern theory is often dismissed as a distraction from pressing questions of material inequality and economic and political exploitation. In the paper we distinguish between ‘ludic’ or ‘spectral’ postmodernisms and ‘oppositional’ or ‘resistance’ postmodernisms. We suggest that the latter provid…
Inequality, Transformation, and Political Agency
Postmodernism and Social Policy
The term 'postmodernism' has recently entered the study of social policy, prompting debate over its usefulness for social policy analysis. Peter Taylor-Gooby's (1994) appraisal of literatures often described as 'postmodern' leads him to reject them as having little to offer the discipline of social policy. This article argues that such a view derives from a confusion about the field of 'postmodernism'; in particular, from a conflation of several …
Postmodernism and Social Policy
The term 'postmodernism' has recently entered the study of social policy, prompting debate over its usefulness for social policy analysis. Peter Taylor-Gooby's (1994) appraisal of literatures often described as 'postmodern' leads him to reject them as having little to offer the discipline of social policy. This article argues that such a view derives from a confusion about the field of 'postmodernism'; in particular, from a conflation of several …
The Children Act 2004
This article considers the passage of the Children Act 2004 through Parliament. Drawing on recent debates in social science, particularly those concerned with informationalism, governance and cultural political economy, the article examines how welfare policies can be used as a vehicle for pursuing broader political goals. In particular, the development of information, retrieval and tracking systems (IRT) raise questions concerning the rapid grow…
Social exclusion in Europe
In the late 20th and early 21st century, social exclusion has become something of a trope around which is pegged justifications for various reforms. The notion of social exclusion has found its way into the lexicon of all major global governance institutions. How has this happened, and what are its implications for scholars of contemporary welfare reforms? In this article, we consider the ‘rise and rise’ of the discourse of social exclusion, with…
European Policy and the Politics of Environmental Governance
In this paper we focus on identifying some of the important sociological dimensions of the process of environmental governance through a review of European regulatory frameworks and instruments, specifically in regard to the European Union’s Fifth Action Programme on the Environment (5EAP). We show that such policies and the institutions and social networks that promote them are locked into wider social dynamics in the political regulation of Eur…
Bridge Over the River Crime
This paper examines the significant disparity between the mobility of organised crime and the mobility of law enforcement through the use of Kaufmann's (2002) three categories of motility: access, skills and appropriation. It argues that the differential mobility of organised crime and law enforcement can be accounted for by the differential insertion of these groups of actors into 'the practice and politics of market liberalisation and the pract…
From Modern to Postmodern Penality
This article responds to a recent article by Hallsworth (2000), which claims that contemporary changes in penal practice indicate the rise of a postmodern penality. We identify three issues raised by Hallsworth's argument, encompassing methodological, empirical and conceptual questions. We argue that his approach exhibits some methodological problems, as well as a conceptual conflation between `postmodernity' as a social formation and `postmodern…
Globalization, social exclusion and the possibilities for global social work and welfare
Social work practice in Europe has developed disparately in the context of separate nation states. Yet it has at the level of professional organization a potentially international orientation. Practice can be understood as having a dual configuration: on the one hand it is idiosyncratic to the culture of nation states; on the other it has a dynamic which incorporates an impulse to include broader supranational concerns. This dual configuration is…
The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts
Postmodernizam i socijalna politika
Termin postmodernizam, koji je tek nedavno uveden u izucavanje socijalne politike, potaknuo je raspravu o njegovoj korisnosti za analizu socijalne politike. Petera Taylora-Goobyja (1994) ocjena literature koja se cesto opisuje kao postmoderna navela je da ju odbaci, smatrajuci da ona malo nudi disciplini socijalne politike. Ovaj clanak pokazuje da takvo glediste proizlazi iz zbrke oko podrucja postmodernizma, a posebice iz spajanja nekoliko razli…
Postmodern theory and politics
In this paper we consider some contributions made by postmodern perspectives to theoretical and political questions of citizenship and social justice. Postmodern theory is often dismissed as a distraction from pressing questions of material inequality and economic and political exploitation. In the paper we distinguish between ‘ludic’ or ‘spectral’ postmodernisms and ‘oppositional’ or ‘resistance’ postmodernisms. We suggest that the latter provid…
Postmodern theory and politics
In this paper we consider some contributions made by postmodern perspectives to theoretical and political questions of citizenship and social justice. Postmodern theory is often dismissed as a distraction from pressing questions of material inequality and economic and political exploitation. In the paper we distinguish between ‘ludic’ or ‘spectral’ postmodernisms and ‘oppositional’ or ‘resistance’ postmodernisms. We suggest that the latter provid…
Inequality, Transformation, and Political Agency
Postmodernism and Social Policy
The term 'postmodernism' has recently entered the study of social policy, prompting debate over its usefulness for social policy analysis. Peter Taylor-Gooby's (1994) appraisal of literatures often described as 'postmodern' leads him to reject them as having little to offer the discipline of social policy. This article argues that such a view derives from a confusion about the field of 'postmodernism'; in particular, from a conflation of several …
European Policy and the Politics of Environmental Governance
In this paper we focus on identifying some of the important sociological dimensions of the process of environmental governance through a review of European regulatory frameworks and instruments, specifically in regard to the European Union’s Fifth Action Programme on the Environment (5EAP). We show that such policies and the institutions and social networks that promote them are locked into wider social dynamics in the political regulation of Eur…
Postmodernizam i socijalna politika
Termin postmodernizam, koji je tek nedavno uveden u izucavanje socijalne politike, potaknuo je raspravu o njegovoj korisnosti za analizu socijalne politike. Petera Taylora-Goobyja (1994) ocjena literature koja se cesto opisuje kao postmoderna navela je da ju odbaci, smatrajuci da ona malo nudi disciplini socijalne politike. Ovaj clanak pokazuje da takvo glediste proizlazi iz zbrke oko podrucja postmodernizma, a posebice iz spajanja nekoliko razli…
Theorising Welfare
Globalization, social exclusion and the possibilities for global social work and welfare
Social work practice in Europe has developed disparately in the context of separate nation states. Yet it has at the level of professional organization a potentially international orientation. Practice can be understood as having a dual configuration: on the one hand it is idiosyncratic to the culture of nation states; on the other it has a dynamic which incorporates an impulse to include broader supranational concerns. This dual configuration is…
From Modern to Postmodern Penality
This article responds to a recent article by Hallsworth (2000), which claims that contemporary changes in penal practice indicate the rise of a postmodern penality. We identify three issues raised by Hallsworth's argument, encompassing methodological, empirical and conceptual questions. We argue that his approach exhibits some methodological problems, as well as a conceptual conflation between `postmodernity' as a social formation and `postmodern…
The Children Act 2004
This article considers the passage of the Children Act 2004 through Parliament. Drawing on recent debates in social science, particularly those concerned with informationalism, governance and cultural political economy, the article examines how welfare policies can be used as a vehicle for pursuing broader political goals. In particular, the development of information, retrieval and tracking systems (IRT) raise questions concerning the rapid grow…
The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts
New Theories of Welfare by Tony Fitzpatrick
Social exclusion in Europe
In the late 20th and early 21st century, social exclusion has become something of a trope around which is pegged justifications for various reforms. The notion of social exclusion has found its way into the lexicon of all major global governance institutions. How has this happened, and what are its implications for scholars of contemporary welfare reforms? In this article, we consider the ‘rise and rise’ of the discourse of social exclusion, with…
Bridge Over the River Crime
This paper examines the significant disparity between the mobility of organised crime and the mobility of law enforcement through the use of Kaufmann's (2002) three categories of motility: access, skills and appropriation. It argues that the differential mobility of organised crime and law enforcement can be accounted for by the differential insertion of these groups of actors into 'the practice and politics of market liberalisation and the pract…
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