Tony Stanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 348739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Stanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanley |
| SIGNATURE | STANLEY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0553-8240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Silence’s Paradox
The following essay argues that Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel Silence, elucidates a corrective to pragmatist deliberative philosophy. First, it begins with the book’s protagonist Rodrigues in his eventual role evaluating banned Christian objects to prevent them from entering seventeenth century Japan. Second, Endō’s narrative does not aim to explain the suffering its characters experience. Instead, it draws its readers into a practical concern for wh…
Statutory Social Workers Responding to Youth Radicalisation and Extremism Risks in New Zealand
Young people involved with radicalisation pathways is a child welfare concern and a growing risk issue for New Zealand, because of the rise of young people engaged in extremist ideas, groups and behaviours. This includes at risk and radicalised young people involved with extremist content online. To date, the contribution of family as a resource for diversion and intervention regarding youth extremism concerns has been absent; this paper offers p…
Tracing the Extended Mind
The following essay evaluates the concept of the trace within extended mind (EM) theory. It begins by differentiating Andy Clark's complementarity from several competing models. Second, it demonstrates how an undeveloped concept of the trace arises in Clark's debate with internalist critics. In response, I introduce Paul Ricoeur's metaphor of the imprint in Memory, History, Forgetting. Fourth, the recent debate about the plastic trace will be app…
"Introducing the Special Issue "Situating Religious Cognition
This Special Issue began as a call to evaluate religious media as examples of situated cognition
Barth's Repetition
In chapter three of volume 1.2 (§19‐21) of the Church Dogmatics , Karl Barth provided one of his most thoroughgoing accounts of the concept of scripture. Throughout, he held in tension the Word of God with the frailty of the Bible's human words. As Barth explored this two‐fold aspect of the Bible, he relied upon the concept of repetition. However, what has not been fully appreciated is how repetition was at work not just in Barth's account of the…
Applying Arendt’s Vita Activa to Religion
Hannah Arendt clearly articulated a vision of political life free of religious origins as well as the dominance of religious authorities. Nonetheless, she both consistently drew upon religious ideas as well as encouraged religious actors to weigh in on political matters. To understand why, I firstly reiterate her account of intersubjective plurality articulated throughout the vita activa's three categories of labor, work and action. Secondly, I a…
Religious Print in Settler Australia and Oceania
A distinctive feature of the study of religion in Australia and Oceania concerns the influence of European culture. While often associated with private interiority, the European concept of religion was deeply reliant upon the materiality of printed publication practices. Prominent historians of religion have called for a more detailed evaluation of the impact of religious book forms, but little research has explored this aspect of the Australian …
Examining Practice Frameworks – Mapping out the Gains
Most systems of child welfare promote some form of practice framework or practice approach, with inspectorates reinforcing the need for such. Yet the extent to which practice frameworks are sufficiently embedded and therefore driving good and improving practice is not clear or well understood. Practice frameworks can help social workers be more confident with articulating the core purpose of their work and help them to explain how they do it. Soc…
Religious Interactions in Deliberative Democratic Systems Theory
The following essay begins by outlining the pragmatist link between truth claims and democratic deliberations. To this end, special attention will be paid to Jeffrey Stout's pragmatist enfranchisement of religious citizens. Stout defends a deliberative notion of democracy that fulfills stringent criteria of inclusion and security against domination. While mitigating secular exclusivity, Stout nonetheless acknowledges the new visibility of religio…
The relevance of risk work theory to practice
Statutory social work is in the business of risk work. The work involves decision making about risky events and situations and yet we know very little about how this operates in an everyday practical sense. The risk work associated with terrorism and radicalisation concerns best illustrates this. The PREVENT statutory duty was sanctioned mid 2015 for a range of UK professionals, including social workers, to pay ‘due regard to preventing terrorism…
Practice Leadership ‘On Purpose’ — Extending the Reach of Practice Frameworks
Much of the practice leadership literature is focused on people and their roles — the who and what of leading, thus neglecting the organisational environment and wider socio-economic and political influences. Taking an ethnographic and sociological approach, we argue for a reimagining of practice leadership as a series of verbs to explore the why and the how of great leadership. Moreover, humane social work practice driven by leaders is best supp…
Introduction
The Pragmatist Question of Sovereignty
In Democracy and Tradition, Jeffrey Stout asks Christian political theologians if they can discern God's activity in modern democratic cultures. In so doing they might “acknowledge the sovereignty of God while transcending both resentment of, and absorption into, the secular.” As Stout recognizes, the question of sovereignty is relevant not only to Christian, but also Jewish and Islamic thought. However, interreligious comparisons remain undevelo…
Working with PREVENT
‘Radicalisation risk’ and the associated practice and organisational responses to it are accepted, rather uncritically, as legitimate activity for statutory social workers. Yet, the policy backdrop driving much of this development has not been matched by practice debate or learning about how best to work with these cases. The 2015 PREVENT Duty mandates social workers and many other practitioners ‘to pay due regard’ to possible radicalisation conc…
A practice framework to support the Care Act 2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the signs of safety and wellbeing practice framework offers a practical and logical reinforcement for the Making Safeguarding Personal programme within the practice context of the Care Act. The new practice framework orientates safeguarding practice to be person led and person centred while reinforcing an outcomes focus. Design/methodology/approach – The principal social worker co-led the desi…
Bonhoeffer's Anti-Judaism
On 2 July 2000, Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, deferred action on the petition to have Dietrich Bonhoeffer named a righteous gentile. My contention is that critics of this decision conceal a more pernicious difficulty that arises in Bonhoeffer's Lutheran legacy. David Nirenberg's recent Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, demonstrates the history and development of such categories with particular attenti…
Religion after Secularization in Australia
Improving Organisational Culture – The Practice Gains
Understanding how excellent practice is enabled is an important question for organisational and professional leaders to ask and work towards answering. But, what are the conditions needed for a great organisational culture? And, how can we find out? How do we promote and build on what works well? Social service organisations are complex — making the exercise of understanding our organisational culture a complex task. It needs a research approach.…
Childhood Radicalisation Risk
Terrorism, radicalisation and risk are contested terms — converging around particular children and young people in England to construct an emergent category of abuse — ‘childhood radicalisation’. With little practice-based research to date in this issue and expected responses via the state, social work needs to step up and engage with the present terrorism debates. In this paper, we argue against peremptorily defining this as a child protection i…
The Principal Child and Family Social Worker
Excellent social work can transform people’s lives. The Munro Review of Child Protection reinforced this message by advocating higher practice standards, and the development of organisational learning cultures. One of Professor Munro’s recommendations was the appointment of principal child and family social workers toward this end. The authors of this paper discuss the setting up and delivering on this new role in two very different English local…
Signs of Safety’ Practice at the Health and Children’s Social Care Interface
Good practice for safeguarding children by health and social care means having the individual confidence to take considered risks in practice and the institutional support that encourages it. Yet, this is not easy to achieve or widely promoted across health and social care organisations. The pressure to ‘get things right’ very much dominates health and social care and this perpetuates a risk aversive culture. Risk measurement regimes based on act…
‘Our tariff will rise’
This article draws on an ethnographic research project that examined how New Zealand child protection social workers discussed decision making about reported risks for children. The study involved a combination of detailed interviews and observations of social work practice in social work offices from late 2002 to mid 2003. In this article, I show how the initial responses by social workers in statutory child protective services were filtered thr…
Barth After Kant
Barth consistently comments on Kant's importance for his early thought in his autobiographical sketches, letters, and even more explicitly in his 1930 lectures on Kant in his Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century . Interestingly, however, little attention has been paid to these latter lectures on Protestant history in the secondary literature. In part, this oversight has been due to the manner in which Barth's theology has been thought to…
A Practice Framework for Assessments at Tower Hamlets Children's Social Care
The Munro review of child protection explains in depth the contemporary challenges in delivering statutory child protection services. It notes that complexity, uncertainty and emotional challenges inherent in social work are contemporary issues not resolved through new national guidance or more bureaucratic procedures. Rather, practice needs reforming at the local level. Tragedies in practice have tended to usher in more and more bureaucratic res…
Taking a Marxist Look at the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families
Contemporary reforms of social work assessment practice and policy, best evidenced by the 2001 introduction of The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families, principally aimed at ensuring consistent and safer outcomes for children and their families, has resulted in a state of practice paralysis resulting in an over-zealous emphasis on assessment at the expense of intervention work. This paper argues that a sociological …
Childhood Radicalisation Risk
Terrorism, radicalisation and risk are contested terms — converging around particular children and young people in England to construct an emergent category of abuse — ‘childhood radicalisation’. With little practice-based research to date in this issue and expected responses via the state, social work needs to step up and engage with the present terrorism debates. In this paper, we argue against peremptorily defining this as a child protection i…
Signs of Safety’ Practice at the Health and Children’s Social Care Interface
Good practice for safeguarding children by health and social care means having the individual confidence to take considered risks in practice and the institutional support that encourages it. Yet, this is not easy to achieve or widely promoted across health and social care organisations. The pressure to ‘get things right’ very much dominates health and social care and this perpetuates a risk aversive culture. Risk measurement regimes based on act…
Working with PREVENT
‘Radicalisation risk’ and the associated practice and organisational responses to it are accepted, rather uncritically, as legitimate activity for statutory social workers. Yet, the policy backdrop driving much of this development has not been matched by practice debate or learning about how best to work with these cases. The 2015 PREVENT Duty mandates social workers and many other practitioners ‘to pay due regard’ to possible radicalisation conc…
A practice framework to support the Care Act 2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the signs of safety and wellbeing practice framework offers a practical and logical reinforcement for the Making Safeguarding Personal programme within the practice context of the Care Act. The new practice framework orientates safeguarding practice to be person led and person centred while reinforcing an outcomes focus. Design/methodology/approach – The principal social worker co-led the desi…
A Practice Framework for Assessments at Tower Hamlets Children's Social Care
The Munro review of child protection explains in depth the contemporary challenges in delivering statutory child protection services. It notes that complexity, uncertainty and emotional challenges inherent in social work are contemporary issues not resolved through new national guidance or more bureaucratic procedures. Rather, practice needs reforming at the local level. Tragedies in practice have tended to usher in more and more bureaucratic res…
Improving Organisational Culture – The Practice Gains
Understanding how excellent practice is enabled is an important question for organisational and professional leaders to ask and work towards answering. But, what are the conditions needed for a great organisational culture? And, how can we find out? How do we promote and build on what works well? Social service organisations are complex — making the exercise of understanding our organisational culture a complex task. It needs a research approach.…
The Principal Child and Family Social Worker
Excellent social work can transform people’s lives. The Munro Review of Child Protection reinforced this message by advocating higher practice standards, and the development of organisational learning cultures. One of Professor Munro’s recommendations was the appointment of principal child and family social workers toward this end. The authors of this paper discuss the setting up and delivering on this new role in two very different English local…
Ethnographic Intimacy
Ethnographic researchers entering sensitive fields of research become entangled in ethical dilemmas when they encounter 'sticky' questions, situations and issues. In undertaking research within two distinct sex worlds: female sex work and male sexual negotiation/risk and HIV, we struggled to manage the contingent links between our relationships with the people who inhabit these worlds, the ethical requirements of our institutional ethics committe…
Punch-Drunk Masculinity
Punch-Drunk Love exposes the complexity and kitsch superficialities of masculine gender constructions. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, this film deconstructs masculine gender performance without pretending to offer overly simplistic alternatives. The following is an exploratory essay that asks what kind of masculinity Punch-Drunk Love represents. If it is true that men no longer hold the patriarchal sway on a domestic level, then ho…
Practice Leadership ‘On Purpose’ — Extending the Reach of Practice Frameworks
Much of the practice leadership literature is focused on people and their roles — the who and what of leading, thus neglecting the organisational environment and wider socio-economic and political influences. Taking an ethnographic and sociological approach, we argue for a reimagining of practice leadership as a series of verbs to explore the why and the how of great leadership. Moreover, humane social work practice driven by leaders is best supp…
Punch-Drunk Masculinity
Punch-Drunk Love exposes the complexity and kitsch superficialities of masculine gender constructions. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, this film deconstructs masculine gender performance without pretending to offer overly simplistic alternatives. The following is an exploratory essay that asks what kind of masculinity Punch-Drunk Love represents. If it is true that men no longer hold the patriarchal sway on a domestic level, then ho…
Returning Barth to Anselm
Barth's Anselm This article focuses on Barth's explication of Anselm's Proslogion 2‐4 in his book on Anselm and attempts to show how Anselm helped clarify for Barth the ontological nature of his own early theology, in particular what he meant by the “is” in his affirmation “God is God.” Our contention is that Barth's continual pointing to Anselm's Fides Quaerens Intellectum as a vital key to his own theology should not be overlooked. In fact, we …
Karl Barth and Jürgen Habermas
Currently, religion and globalization seem to be working towards opposite ends. As Mark Juergensmeyer has noted, while religiously invoked terrorism fragments society, the Internet, cell phones and the media industry foster the formation of an increasingly global social fabric. But religion is not a single faceted phenomenon. As much as there are prophets of violence such as Osama bin Laden, there are prophets of peace and reconciliation such as …
Safeguarding ‘Children in Need’
This article explores the recent establishment, practice delivery and initial evaluation of a Child in Need (CIN) reviewing service. The practice of reviewing is explored in detail. In particular, the role of genograms and ecomaps as tools to enhance preparation, participation and planning at CIN review meetings is discussed. There are always challenges and opportunities to the introduction of any service initiative and these are discussed; arres…
Child in Need’ Plans
Social work practice invariably means attention to both human and non-human aspects of the work. It is now widely argued that spending time on computers and bureaucratic requirements comes at the expense of direct work with families and children. But this is a simplistic dualism. This paper advocates a move beyond this dualism through three broad aims. First, this paper argues that social work has been rather slow at rendering non-human ‘things’ …
Taking a Marxist Look at the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families
Contemporary reforms of social work assessment practice and policy, best evidenced by the 2001 introduction of The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families, principally aimed at ensuring consistent and safer outcomes for children and their families, has resulted in a state of practice paralysis resulting in an over-zealous emphasis on assessment at the expense of intervention work. This paper argues that a sociological …
Ethnographic Intimacy
Ethnographic researchers entering sensitive fields of research become entangled in ethical dilemmas when they encounter 'sticky' questions, situations and issues. In undertaking research within two distinct sex worlds: female sex work and male sexual negotiation/risk and HIV, we struggled to manage the contingent links between our relationships with the people who inhabit these worlds, the ethical requirements of our institutional ethics committe…
Barth After Kant
Barth consistently comments on Kant's importance for his early thought in his autobiographical sketches, letters, and even more explicitly in his 1930 lectures on Kant in his Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century . Interestingly, however, little attention has been paid to these latter lectures on Protestant history in the secondary literature. In part, this oversight has been due to the manner in which Barth's theology has been thought to…
A Practice Framework for Assessments at Tower Hamlets Children's Social Care
The Munro review of child protection explains in depth the contemporary challenges in delivering statutory child protection services. It notes that complexity, uncertainty and emotional challenges inherent in social work are contemporary issues not resolved through new national guidance or more bureaucratic procedures. Rather, practice needs reforming at the local level. Tragedies in practice have tended to usher in more and more bureaucratic res…
‘Our tariff will rise’
This article draws on an ethnographic research project that examined how New Zealand child protection social workers discussed decision making about reported risks for children. The study involved a combination of detailed interviews and observations of social work practice in social work offices from late 2002 to mid 2003. In this article, I show how the initial responses by social workers in statutory child protective services were filtered thr…
The Principal Child and Family Social Worker
Excellent social work can transform people’s lives. The Munro Review of Child Protection reinforced this message by advocating higher practice standards, and the development of organisational learning cultures. One of Professor Munro’s recommendations was the appointment of principal child and family social workers toward this end. The authors of this paper discuss the setting up and delivering on this new role in two very different English local…
Signs of Safety’ Practice at the Health and Children’s Social Care Interface
Good practice for safeguarding children by health and social care means having the individual confidence to take considered risks in practice and the institutional support that encourages it. Yet, this is not easy to achieve or widely promoted across health and social care organisations. The pressure to ‘get things right’ very much dominates health and social care and this perpetuates a risk aversive culture. Risk measurement regimes based on act…
Religion after Secularization in Australia
Improving Organisational Culture – The Practice Gains
Understanding how excellent practice is enabled is an important question for organisational and professional leaders to ask and work towards answering. But, what are the conditions needed for a great organisational culture? And, how can we find out? How do we promote and build on what works well? Social service organisations are complex — making the exercise of understanding our organisational culture a complex task. It needs a research approach.…
Childhood Radicalisation Risk
Terrorism, radicalisation and risk are contested terms — converging around particular children and young people in England to construct an emergent category of abuse — ‘childhood radicalisation’. With little practice-based research to date in this issue and expected responses via the state, social work needs to step up and engage with the present terrorism debates. In this paper, we argue against peremptorily defining this as a child protection i…
A practice framework to support the Care Act 2014
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the signs of safety and wellbeing practice framework offers a practical and logical reinforcement for the Making Safeguarding Personal programme within the practice context of the Care Act. The new practice framework orientates safeguarding practice to be person led and person centred while reinforcing an outcomes focus. Design/methodology/approach – The principal social worker co-led the desi…
Bonhoeffer's Anti-Judaism
On 2 July 2000, Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, deferred action on the petition to have Dietrich Bonhoeffer named a righteous gentile. My contention is that critics of this decision conceal a more pernicious difficulty that arises in Bonhoeffer's Lutheran legacy. David Nirenberg's recent Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, demonstrates the history and development of such categories with particular attenti…
Working with PREVENT
‘Radicalisation risk’ and the associated practice and organisational responses to it are accepted, rather uncritically, as legitimate activity for statutory social workers. Yet, the policy backdrop driving much of this development has not been matched by practice debate or learning about how best to work with these cases. The 2015 PREVENT Duty mandates social workers and many other practitioners ‘to pay due regard’ to possible radicalisation conc…
The relevance of risk work theory to practice
Statutory social work is in the business of risk work. The work involves decision making about risky events and situations and yet we know very little about how this operates in an everyday practical sense. The risk work associated with terrorism and radicalisation concerns best illustrates this. The PREVENT statutory duty was sanctioned mid 2015 for a range of UK professionals, including social workers, to pay ‘due regard to preventing terrorism…
Practice Leadership ‘On Purpose’ — Extending the Reach of Practice Frameworks
Much of the practice leadership literature is focused on people and their roles — the who and what of leading, thus neglecting the organisational environment and wider socio-economic and political influences. Taking an ethnographic and sociological approach, we argue for a reimagining of practice leadership as a series of verbs to explore the why and the how of great leadership. Moreover, humane social work practice driven by leaders is best supp…
Introduction
The Pragmatist Question of Sovereignty
In Democracy and Tradition, Jeffrey Stout asks Christian political theologians if they can discern God's activity in modern democratic cultures. In so doing they might “acknowledge the sovereignty of God while transcending both resentment of, and absorption into, the secular.” As Stout recognizes, the question of sovereignty is relevant not only to Christian, but also Jewish and Islamic thought. However, interreligious comparisons remain undevelo…
Examining Practice Frameworks – Mapping out the Gains
Most systems of child welfare promote some form of practice framework or practice approach, with inspectorates reinforcing the need for such. Yet the extent to which practice frameworks are sufficiently embedded and therefore driving good and improving practice is not clear or well understood. Practice frameworks can help social workers be more confident with articulating the core purpose of their work and help them to explain how they do it. Soc…
Religious Interactions in Deliberative Democratic Systems Theory
The following essay begins by outlining the pragmatist link between truth claims and democratic deliberations. To this end, special attention will be paid to Jeffrey Stout's pragmatist enfranchisement of religious citizens. Stout defends a deliberative notion of democracy that fulfills stringent criteria of inclusion and security against domination. While mitigating secular exclusivity, Stout nonetheless acknowledges the new visibility of religio…
Applying Arendt’s Vita Activa to Religion
Hannah Arendt clearly articulated a vision of political life free of religious origins as well as the dominance of religious authorities. Nonetheless, she both consistently drew upon religious ideas as well as encouraged religious actors to weigh in on political matters. To understand why, I firstly reiterate her account of intersubjective plurality articulated throughout the vita activa's three categories of labor, work and action. Secondly, I a…
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