Paul Hoggett
Biographic Data
| ID | 280090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Hoggett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoggett |
| SIGNATURE | HOGGETT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1870-8245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 632 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
La Climate Psychology Alliance: Enjeux sociopolitiques et processus inconscients
Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death
Battersea Action and Counselling Centre (Bacc)
This is a brief account of a community psychotherapy project, set up in the 1970s in inner London, as an intervention outside state provision, to address some of the mental health needs, suffering and unmanageable distress of local working-class people. It represents a conjunction of left-wing and socialist politics with a commitment to psychoanalytic and therapeutic understandings of the psychic injuries of class
The nature within
Are we capable of developing a different way of being with nature, different to the disassociated and parasitic relationship which has come to define modern civilization? In answering this question it is usual to focus on our relationship with nature ‘out there’ but this article suggests the problem lies equally in our relation with nature ‘in here’, that is, in the problematic relationship we have to our own creatureliness - to our physical bein…
The malady of the ideal and the assault on nature
Thinking with Billy
Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster
Shame and performativity: Thoughts on the psychology of neoliberalism
Fairness and the Politics of Resentment
The role of the emotions in the framing of welfare policies is still relatively underexplored. This article examines the role of resentment in the construction of a particular form of 'anti-welfare populism' advanced by the Coalition Government in the UK after 2010. We argue that UK political parties have appropriated the discourse of fairness to promote fundamentally divisive policies which have been popular with large sections of the electorate…
Politics and affect
Climate change and the apocalyptic imagination
The politics of the modernisation of the UK welfare state
Working psycho-socially and dialogically in research
Human agency and social suffering
In this paper the authors are primarily exploring the notion of social suffering within a psychosocial paradigm. A brief outline of Bourdieu's concept of social suffering, and a similarly concise explication of the psychosocial subject as contemporarily theorized are given. The central section of the paper looks at some understandings of social suffering that are experienced internally as well as within structural inequalities and power relations…
Intersectoral partnerships, the knowledge economy and intangible assets
Arguably, partnerships emerged to address knowledge deficits inherent in other modes of coordination, in understanding between different agencies and arms of government (‘silo mentality’), and between government and the people it serves. As an increasingly prevalent form of governance, there is concern about whether partnerships produce benefits that contribute to the public good. This article considers their value in producing intangible assets …
What's in a Hyphen? Reconstructing Psychosocial Studies
Navigating the contradictions of public service modernisation: The Case of Community Engagement Professionals
English A commitment to public service reform has been a guiding theme of Labour administrations in Britain since 1997. These modernisation policies and practices formed the context for our research, using psychosocial approaches to analyse the contradictory impacts of modernisation agendas on social development workers’ motivations, professional values and the ways in which they identified and addressed ethical dilemmas in their work. Profession…
Emotion, Politics and Society
This timely book critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and emotions. Challenging traditional dichotomies which counterpose rationalist to non-rationalist epistemologies, it off
Pity, Compassion, Solidarity
Compassion plays a key role in politics. It is a key, perhaps the key, moral sentiment and perhaps along with anger at injustice (the focus of the previous chapter by Simon Thompson) it is central to what we might think of as "progressive" political struggles and campaigns. For example, Blair's recent attempt to kick-start a concerted international strategy for ending poverty in Africa seems predicated upon the politics of compassion. And yet, as…
Private Passions, the Public Good and Public Service Reform
There has been considerable recent discussion of the impact of public service reforms on the work ethics and motivations of public service workers. In this article we draw upon recent research on the ethical dilemmas facing regeneration workers in order to look more closely at the role of values in the working lives of public service professionals. Focusing on the commitment to social justice, we argue that such values find expression in two inte…
Conflict, ambivalence, and the contested purpose of public organizations
This article argues that public organizations are inherently more complex than private ones. Their complexity derives from two sources. The public sphere is the site for the continuous contestation of public purposes and this means that questions regarding values and policies saturate all public organizations, particularly at the point of delivery. Second, because government partly acts as the receptacle for the alienated subjectivity of citizens…
Connecting, Arguing, Fighting
Psychoanalysis and Community
Identity, Life History and Commitment to Welfare
Using detailed extracts from two life histories, this article examines the nature of the personal identifications that often underpin the commitment of welfare workers to their jobs. We explore the paradox that it is those identifications such as class and gender, mediated through individual biography, that fix the 'self as object' and that also provide us with the resources for self-transformation. In this respect, the article not only throws li…
Iraq: Blair's Mission Impossible
New Modes of Control in the Public Service
Controversy exists regarding whether recent changes in the organization of the public services in the UK and elsewhere constitute a paradigm shift towards a post‐bureaucratic form. This article argues that in Britain three fundamental but interlocking strategies of control have been implemented over the last decade. First, there has been a pronounced shift towards the creation of operationally decentralized units with a simultaneous attempt to in…
A New Management in the Public Sector
This paper examines the crisis of the bureaucratic mode of organisation within public and private sectors and the emergence of new forms of organisational control within which maximal operational decentralisation occurs alongside the further centralisation of strategic command. It is suggested that the new basic principle of post bureaucratic management corresponds to the idea of giving managers ‘freedoms within boundaries’ and leads to the devel…
Agency, Rationality and Social Policy
The recent concern to develop a radical but critical account of agency in social policy is to be welcomed. However this article questions whether the work of A. Giddens can provide an adequate foundation for such a project. Giddens's account of the welfare subject contains several weaknesses. It is voluntaristic and yet paradoxically it cannot offer an adequate understanding of radical change. It is also rationalistic and assumes the existences o…
Conflict, ambivalence, and the contested purpose of public organizations
This article argues that public organizations are inherently more complex than private ones. Their complexity derives from two sources. The public sphere is the site for the continuous contestation of public purposes and this means that questions regarding values and policies saturate all public organizations, particularly at the point of delivery. Second, because government partly acts as the receptacle for the alienated subjectivity of citizens…
Fairness and the Politics of Resentment
The role of the emotions in the framing of welfare policies is still relatively underexplored. This article examines the role of resentment in the construction of a particular form of 'anti-welfare populism' advanced by the Coalition Government in the UK after 2010. We argue that UK political parties have appropriated the discourse of fairness to promote fundamentally divisive policies which have been popular with large sections of the electorate…
Human agency and social suffering
In this paper the authors are primarily exploring the notion of social suffering within a psychosocial paradigm. A brief outline of Bourdieu's concept of social suffering, and a similarly concise explication of the psychosocial subject as contemporarily theorized are given. The central section of the paper looks at some understandings of social suffering that are experienced internally as well as within structural inequalities and power relations…
Change in the Benefits Agency: Empowering the Exhausted Worker
Using case study evidence from an investigation of ‘quality’ initiatives and working practices in three offices within a District of the Benefits Agency (BA), this article examines the contradictory role of new public management on employees. Decentralised management, performance related pay, teamwork philosophies and the promotion of a ‘customer’ culture reflect a move away from a traditional civil service bureaucratic form of organisation. Howe…
Toward a Democracy of the Emotions
Universalism, selectivism and particularism: Towards a postmodern social policy
The impact of postmodernism on theories of social policy has called into question the established basis of welfare provision. Existing compromises between universalism and particularism, equality and diversity, have been unsettled. This paper re-examines the question of the appropriate balance between these values in light of the issues postmodernism raises. Although postmodernists provide good reasons to reject crude forms of universalism, it re…
The emotional dynamics of deliberative democracy
English Proponents of deliberative democracy claim that it can provide a fair, efficient and creative method of collective decision making. In practice, however, all groups, including those consulted within public spaces for deliberation such as consultative forums, are,in part, characterised by emotional dynamics that threaten to undermine such deliberation. These dynamics can distort the process of deliberation, lead to sub-optimal outcomes and…
A Place for Experience: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Boundary, Identity, and Culture
Proceeding on the assumption that the 'inner world' is marked by an imminent catastrophe, the Kleinian tradition within psychoanalysts proposes that human development requires the existence of a benign social medium which is reliable and flexible enough for fear to be contained without being visited upon the other. Such a medium finds representation in a variety of psychological and social spaces, spaces where experience can be held on to and wor…
Politics and affect
Like counting deckchairs on the Titanic: A study of institutional racism and housing allocations in Haringey and Lambeth
Why and how do black people lose out in the provision of social housing? This was the question that we set out to examine, looking at the situation in two London boroughs with a declared commitment to anti‐racism in the late 1980s. Previous studies had focused on the role of officer discretion, and a popular strategy of ‘institutional hygiene’ had been adopted to counter this factor by many agencies as part of an anti‐racist or more general equal…
Public Policies, Private Strategies and Local Public Spending Bodies
Local Public Spending Bodies (LPSBs) occupy an important position in the contemporary structures of governance in the UK. As exemplars of many of the diverse characteristics of the New Public Management, LPSBs inhabit the fuzzy space between the public and private spheres, both in terms of organizational structure and service delivery. One finding from recent research into the internal governance of three kinds of LPSBs – Further Education Colleg…
The decentralisation of public services: A research agenda
Private Passions, the Public Good and Public Service Reform
There has been considerable recent discussion of the impact of public service reforms on the work ethics and motivations of public service workers. In this article we draw upon recent research on the ethical dilemmas facing regeneration workers in order to look more closely at the role of values in the working lives of public service professionals. Focusing on the commitment to social justice, we argue that such values find expression in two inte…
Iraq: Blair's Mission Impossible
Reflexivity and Uncertainty in the Research Process
In this article we provide an account of the process of doing social scientific research–in this case an eighteen month study of ‘multi-racial’ community initiatives in three different localities in the UK. Given the transience of many such initiatives and the contested meanings that both ‘race’ and ‘community’ have acquired the experience of doing research in this area is one surrounded by uncertainty. We describe the mistakes made, blind allies…
Climate change and the apocalyptic imagination
What's in a Hyphen? Reconstructing Psychosocial Studies
Identity, Life History and Commitment to Welfare
Using detailed extracts from two life histories, this article examines the nature of the personal identifications that often underpin the commitment of welfare workers to their jobs. We explore the paradox that it is those identifications such as class and gender, mediated through individual biography, that fix the 'self as object' and that also provide us with the resources for self-transformation. In this respect, the article not only throws li…
Shame and performativity: Thoughts on the psychology of neoliberalism
Best Value and the politics of pragmatism
English This article frames and highlights critical themes emerging from the contributions to this Best Value section: that Best Value possesses subtle, and not so subtle, political, organisational, strategic and governmental dimensions. Drawing on these themes we develop our own argument that, during Blair’s first term, Best Value was presented as a potentially enlightened ‘user-friendly’ tool for the expression of diverse social and organisatio…
Working psycho-socially and dialogically in research
Intersectoral partnerships, the knowledge economy and intangible assets
Arguably, partnerships emerged to address knowledge deficits inherent in other modes of coordination, in understanding between different agencies and arms of government (‘silo mentality’), and between government and the people it serves. As an increasingly prevalent form of governance, there is concern about whether partnerships produce benefits that contribute to the public good. This article considers their value in producing intangible assets …
Leisure beyond the individual consumer
In the concentration on the leisure patterns and aspirations of individuals, we have lost sight of the extremely varied and significant ways in which people come together to undertake their activities. What is commonly termed the ‘voluntary sector’ is an immensely rich and important area of collective activity in which participants, by and large, consume their own products free from the market economy. This paper is based on research which studie…
Labourism: Means and ends
The Labour Party has a restricted socialist vision of the welfare state as a machine or `system' which can be run through sound administration, This view underpins both local and national labourism, seeking technical solutions to political problems.Labourism simply takes on the form of the state as a model for administration without questioning either the formula tion of ends or the construction of means. The Labour Party should break with this t…
Organizing for a change
The decentralisation of public services: A research agenda
The revenge of the poor: The anti-poll tax campaign in Britain
A New Management in the Public Sector
This paper examines the crisis of the bureaucratic mode of organisation within public and private sectors and the emergence of new forms of organisational control within which maximal operational decentralisation occurs alongside the further centralisation of strategic command. It is suggested that the new basic principle of post bureaucratic management corresponds to the idea of giving managers ‘freedoms within boundaries’ and leads to the devel…
A Place for Experience: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Boundary, Identity, and Culture
Proceeding on the assumption that the 'inner world' is marked by an imminent catastrophe, the Kleinian tradition within psychoanalysts proposes that human development requires the existence of a benign social medium which is reliable and flexible enough for fear to be contained without being visited upon the other. Such a medium finds representation in a variety of psychological and social spaces, spaces where experience can be held on to and wor…
The Politics of Decentralisation
Reflexivity and Uncertainty in the Research Process
In this article we provide an account of the process of doing social scientific research–in this case an eighteen month study of ‘multi-racial’ community initiatives in three different localities in the UK. Given the transience of many such initiatives and the contested meanings that both ‘race’ and ‘community’ have acquired the experience of doing research in this area is one surrounded by uncertainty. We describe the mistakes made, blind allies…
Like counting deckchairs on the Titanic: A study of institutional racism and housing allocations in Haringey and Lambeth
Why and how do black people lose out in the provision of social housing? This was the question that we set out to examine, looking at the situation in two London boroughs with a declared commitment to anti‐racism in the late 1980s. Previous studies had focused on the role of officer discretion, and a popular strategy of ‘institutional hygiene’ had been adopted to counter this factor by many agencies as part of an anti‐racist or more general equal…
New Modes of Control in the Public Service
Controversy exists regarding whether recent changes in the organization of the public services in the UK and elsewhere constitute a paradigm shift towards a post‐bureaucratic form. This article argues that in Britain three fundamental but interlocking strategies of control have been implemented over the last decade. First, there has been a pronounced shift towards the creation of operationally decentralized units with a simultaneous attempt to in…
Universalism, selectivism and particularism: Towards a postmodern social policy
The impact of postmodernism on theories of social policy has called into question the established basis of welfare provision. Existing compromises between universalism and particularism, equality and diversity, have been unsettled. This paper re-examines the question of the appropriate balance between these values in light of the issues postmodernism raises. Although postmodernists provide good reasons to reject crude forms of universalism, it re…
Race, ethnicity and community in three localities
This article looks at patterns of interaction and exclusion across ‘racial’ and ethnic boundaries within a variety of local ‘community initiatives’ in three areas ‐Bristol, Leicester and Tower Hamlets. This article is based upon seven case studies carried out over an eighteen month period as part of a Home Office research project that was concerned to see how forms of racial and ethnic exclusion might be overcome within community initiatives. In …
Contested communities: Experiences, struggles, policies
'Community' is a much used yet little understood term. Through a set of detailed case studies of communities in action this book examines the sources of community activism, the ways in which communities define themselves, and are defined by outsiders, and the nature of the interface between communities and public agencies via partnerships. The essays indicate how communities are sites for internal conflict between the young and old, men and women…
Small firms and economic transformation in Hungary
Since 1989 processes of economic reform and restructuring in Eastern Europe have been a focus for considerable analysis. Less attention has been given to what might be called the ‘bottom‐up’ processes of economic transformation, that is the development of the small and medium shed business sector in Eastern European economies. This paper tries to re‐address this balance by reporting on an analysis of small firm development in Hungary. The authors…
Public Policies, Private Strategies and Local Public Spending Bodies
Local Public Spending Bodies (LPSBs) occupy an important position in the contemporary structures of governance in the UK. As exemplars of many of the diverse characteristics of the New Public Management, LPSBs inhabit the fuzzy space between the public and private spheres, both in terms of organizational structure and service delivery. One finding from recent research into the internal governance of three kinds of LPSBs – Further Education Colleg…
Change in the Benefits Agency: Empowering the Exhausted Worker
Using case study evidence from an investigation of ‘quality’ initiatives and working practices in three offices within a District of the Benefits Agency (BA), this article examines the contradictory role of new public management on employees. Decentralised management, performance related pay, teamwork philosophies and the promotion of a ‘customer’ culture reflect a move away from a traditional civil service bureaucratic form of organisation. Howe…
Contemporary Governance and Local Public Spending Bodies
This paper draws on recent research conducted by the authors to examine the nature of board/executive relations in three different kinds of Local Public Spending Body (LPSB). Big variations are noted, between and within sectors, in the way in which boards organize themselves and the degree of power they have in relation to executives. In all organizations studied the executive played a crucial role both in managing day‐to‐day operations and in se…
Democracy, Social Relations and Ecowelfare
Like Marxists before, greens are trenchant critics of the commodification of human life by consumer capitalism. They have been persistent advocates of less materialistic ways of living but, as such, have been easily dismissed as champions of frugal, small‐scale community living. This essay argues that a society which fostered non‐materialistic ways of living could offer more rather than less to its citizens if it put at the centre of its vision t…
The emotional dynamics of deliberative democracy
English Proponents of deliberative democracy claim that it can provide a fair, efficient and creative method of collective decision making. In practice, however, all groups, including those consulted within public spaces for deliberation such as consultative forums, are,in part, characterised by emotional dynamics that threaten to undermine such deliberation. These dynamics can distort the process of deliberation, lead to sub-optimal outcomes and…
Best Value and the politics of pragmatism
English This article frames and highlights critical themes emerging from the contributions to this Best Value section: that Best Value possesses subtle, and not so subtle, political, organisational, strategic and governmental dimensions. Drawing on these themes we develop our own argument that, during Blair’s first term, Best Value was presented as a potentially enlightened ‘user-friendly’ tool for the expression of diverse social and organisatio…
Agency, Rationality and Social Policy
The recent concern to develop a radical but critical account of agency in social policy is to be welcomed. However this article questions whether the work of A. Giddens can provide an adequate foundation for such a project. Giddens's account of the welfare subject contains several weaknesses. It is voluntaristic and yet paradoxically it cannot offer an adequate understanding of radical change. It is also rationalistic and assumes the existences o…
Toward a Democracy of the Emotions
Overcoming the Desire for Misunderstanding through Dialogue
The emotional and psychological aspects of joint working are examined in this article, providing a powerful explanation for the continuing difficulties in achieving joined-up government. Drawing on the sociology of community, psycho-dynamics of inter-group behaviour and theories of identity and difference, the author argues that New Labour's vision of an inclusive, consensual, community is inherently flawed; that conflict is a necessary and funda…
Strange Attractors: Politics & Psychoanalysis
Political science (43 works) · Sociology (39 works) · Law (33 works) · Psychology (26 works) · Politics (23 works) · Epistemology (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Economics (13 works) · Public relations (12 works)