Marian Barnes
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4075300 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marian Barnes |
| PRENOMES | Marian |
| SOBRENOME | Barnes |
| ASSINATURA | BARNES M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Brighton |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 581 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Researching with Care
Researching with Care applies feminist care ethics to reimagine research as a caring practice. If we care about what we research, do we recognise that others care in different ways and for different reasons? What does this mean for the way we research, who we research with and what we seek to achieve as a result? Drawing on their own and others’ direct experiences of undertaking participatory research in particular, the authors consider all stage…
Researching with Care
Community Care
This article explores the relationship between ‘care’ and ‘community’ in the context of a residential community established to offer hospitality and support to people with addictions, mental health problems and other troubles. The community is located in a rural part of England and was established as a Christian community offering hospitality to people of all faiths or none. The source of data is oral history interviews conducted at the time of t…
Participation, Citizenship and a feminist ethic of care
This chapter proposes a way of thinking about care as a value relevant to contemporary concerns about the way in which we live together and decide together: concerns that are variously conceptualised within policy discourse by reference to community cohesion, social inclusion, community involvement, and civil renewal. A particular aim is to offer a critique of policy discourses of civil renewal from an ethic of care perspective. Civil renewal, as…
Continuing to Get Out of Line
Margaret Urban Walker’s essay ‘Getting out of line’ questions gendered assumptions about moral agency in old age and its assumed links to the concept of a ‘career self.’ In this article I develop and apply her critique to consider what forms ageing activism might take. This focuses on recognising and remembering the value of connections with people and with struggles that may both pre-date and outlive the individual. I suggest that we need to thi…
Power, Participation and Political Renewal
Contemporary interest in citizen engagement in public policy stems from a concern with the governance and quality of public service delivery, with improving the legitimacy of decision making and with articulating the claims of those previously marginalised (Barnes and Bowl 2001; Newman 2001; Sullivan and Skelcher 2002). This article discusses recent research into the diversity of sites and practices of public participation in two contrasting Engl…
Power, politics and the emotions. Impossible governance
Power, politics and the emotions. Impossible governance?." Ethics and Social Welfare, 10(2), pp. 188–189
Transforming Practice with Older People through an Ethic of Care
This article explores the relevance of deliberative practices framed by feminist care ethics to social work practice with older people. It draws on two connected projects which brought together older people: practitioners and academics. The first was a participatory research project in which the significance of care to well-being in old age emerged. The second was a knowledge exchange project which generated learning resources for social care pra…
Ethics of Care
Service user governors in mental health foundation trusts
CONTEXT: National Health Foundation Trusts present opportunities for individual mental health service users to be active in the governance of trusts. This is one of a range of mechanisms for patient and public involvement and one which promotes an individual rather than collective approach to involvement. OBJECTIVE: Within the context of a broader study of the impact of service user involvement in mental health services, the objective of this art…
Deliberation and Transformation from the Ethics of Care
In 2010 and 2011 this journal published two special issues on the ethics of care: ‘Care Ethics: New Theories and Applications’. Contributions to these special issues demonstrated both the global re
Gender and Global Justice
Most readers of this journal will take little persuading either that the achievement of social justice requires an understanding of and response to the impacts of globalisation, or that a gendered
Inform with Care
Good care is often positioned as a natural by-product of the widespread availability of good information ( association through empirical investigation of the information in the context of dementia care. It combines critiques of the care with insights from the epistemological dimension of care ethics to argue that information is better understood as relational practices of care involve the mobilisation and negotiation of different types of knowled…
Stretching middle age
This article responds to the claim that there is a critical neglect of age and ageing across media and television studies. It does so by arguing an exploration of the insights from the fields of critical gerontology/Age Studies and Media Studies allows critical scrutiny of the intersection between populist stereotyping of age, the pedagogic function of the makeover culture, and the prevailing public policy discourses that place responsibility on …
Being well enough in old age
This article offers a critique of the dominant ways in which well-being has been conceptualized and researched within social policy, focusing in particular on the significance of this for policy relating to older people. It conceptualizes well-being as relational and generative rather than an individual outcome. We critically explore normative notions of independence, autonomy and consumerism at the heart of policy on well-being and ageing and su…
Care in Everyday Life
Care in everyday life
Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in ‘care services’ has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence of malaise in contemporary society. But care has also been implicated in the oppression of disabled people and demoted in favour of choice in health and social care services. In this wide- ranging book Marian Barnes argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies. She consider…
An ethic of care and sibling care in older age
Feminist care ethics emphasises the relational nature of care. This suggests the importance of understanding the different dynamics of care in different relational contexts. This article applies such a perspective to exploratory interviews with carers looking after siblings in older age. While some attention has been given to sibling care following the death of parents of people with learning difficulties and, to a lesser extent, those with endur…
New jobs old roles - working for prevention in a whole-system model of health and social care for older people
The Partnerships for Older People Projects programme provided government funding for local and health authorities to pilot prevention and intervention services in partnership with the voluntary sector and older people between 2006 and 2009. This local evaluation of a pilot in southern England undertaken between 2007 and 2009 used a Theory of Change approach to gathering and reflecting on data with different groups involved in the delivery of this…
Ageing activists
Based on research with members of two Senior Citizens Forums in the South East of England, this article examines the biographies and motivations of those who get involved in such activities, with particular emphasis on (a) how they see themselves in relation to ‘other older people’ and (b) their relationships with the places in which they live. We address these issues in relation to the characterisation of participants in such forums as the ‘usua…
Abandoning Care? A Critical Perspective on Personalisation from an Ethic of Care
The adoption of personalisation as the principle on which policy and practices for social care in England should be developed has been hailed as marking a fundamental transformation in the nature of social care and the experiences of service users. This article examines both the discourse of personalisation and the practices that are being adopted to implement this from an ethic of care perspective. It adopts an approach based on Sevenhuijsen's ‘…
Subverting Social Policy on the Front Line
An understanding of policy implementation issues in many of the core fields of social policy requires attention to the mode of service delivery that is characteristic of those fields: face‐to‐face interaction between frontline service staff and service users. A focus on implementation as interaction between these groups reveals the significance of ‘agency’ to the analysis of why and how certain social policy outcomes occur – and in particular why…
Have Families Been Rethought? Ethic of Care, Family and ‘Whole Family’ Approaches
‘Whole family’ approaches to intervention and prevention have raised the profile of ‘family’ within social policy, where the family is constructed as a site of child care and protection, neglect and disadvantage. However, ‘family’ is a taken-for-granted and narrowly defined concept within policy documentation, and often used interchangeably with ‘parents’. This paper uses Sevenhuijsen's (2003) ‘Trace’ approach to explore the use of the concept of…
Democratic Innovations
Subversive citizensPower, agency and resistance in public services
Many of the recent reforms in public serviced in the UK have been driven by the image of the ‘responsible citizen’ – the service user who does not only have rights to receive services but also has responsibilities for the delivery of policy outcomes. In this way, citizens’ everyday conduct is shaped by governmental action, yet there is much evidence that both front line staff in public services and the people who sue them can sometimes act in way…
Constituting ‘the public’ in public participation
The emphasis on public participation in contemporary policy discourse has prompted the development of a wide range of forums within which dialogue takes place between citizens and officials. Often such initiatives are intended to contribute to objectives relating to social exclusion and democratic renewal. The question of ‘who takes part’ within such forums is, then, critical to an understanding of how far new types of forums can contribute to th…
Public Participation and Collaborative Governance
This paper draws on the findings of a study within the ESRC's Democracy and Participation Programme. It explores the processes of participation within deliberative forums - such as user panels, youth forums, area based committees - developed as a means of encouraging a more active, participating mode of citizenship and of improving welfare services by making them more responsive to users. Our findings open up a number of issues about constraints …
Users as Citizens
Self‐organization amongst users of community care services preceded the consumerist developments of the 1980s and early 1990s, but can be considered to have been “legitimized” by top‐down objectives relating to “user involvement”. Nevertheless, the objectives and value bases of disabled people’s organizations and organizations of users (or survivors) of mental health services have not always been consistent with those of consumerism, and user gro…
Abandoning Care? A Critical Perspective on Personalisation from an Ethic of Care
The adoption of personalisation as the principle on which policy and practices for social care in England should be developed has been hailed as marking a fundamental transformation in the nature of social care and the experiences of service users. This article examines both the discourse of personalisation and the practices that are being adopted to implement this from an ethic of care perspective. It adopts an approach based on Sevenhuijsen's ‘…
Subverting Social Policy on the Front Line
An understanding of policy implementation issues in many of the core fields of social policy requires attention to the mode of service delivery that is characteristic of those fields: face‐to‐face interaction between frontline service staff and service users. A focus on implementation as interaction between these groups reveals the significance of ‘agency’ to the analysis of why and how certain social policy outcomes occur – and in particular why…
Recent research
The contemporary emphasis on public participation in policy making derives both from concerns to increase the legitimacy of public decision making and to develop more dialogic forms of governance, and from more 'bottom-up' action intended to ensure that the voices of those excluded from policy making are heard. This has resulted in diverse forms of participative practice, including forums in which social movement organizations meet officials, and…
Evidence, Understanding and Complexity
This article discusses the challenges associated with the evaluation of complex policy initiatives, focusing on one element of the national evaluation of Health Action Zones in England: Building Capacity for Collaboration. It describes the multiple dimensions of complexity that characterize HAZs and considers the limitations of the Theory of Change approach in encompassing the diverse change processes that HAZs seek to promote. Drawing on social …
Bringing difference into deliberation? Disabled people, survivors and local governance
English This article discusses the rules of the game in participatory democracy and the engagement of disabled people and mental health service users/survivors in the process. Drawing on theories of new social movements and of deliberative democracy, the article considers how notions of ‘legitimate participants’ are constructed within official discourse, and how those can be challenged by autonomous groups of disabled people. It also explores ass…
User Involvement in Community Care
Whilst the drive towards public sector consumerism is intensifying, it is also evident that somewhat different ‘brands’ of consumerism are currently being marketed. This article develops a framework to assist in the disaggregation and understanding of the range of approaches to consumerism currently being pursued in the field of health and social care. Its principal elements concern the ideological origins of consumerism in this field; their purp…
Passionate participation
This article explores the emotional dimension of public participation. It contrasts the understanding of deliberative forums as spaces in which reasoned argument is intended to lead to good policy making, with the importance of values and emotions in motivating action within social movements. In the context of a widening of the participatory sphere and the increasing likelihood that social movement activists will also take part in officially spon…
The same old process? Older people, participation and deliberation
Opportunities for older people to take part in decision making about public policies and services are expanding in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. This paper considers the potential of older people's participation in policy processes for both transforming the policy process and for achieving socially just outcomes. It argues that the way in which such participation takes place, in particular the nature of the deliberative processes, affects bot…
Researching public participation
1999). Researching public participation. Local Government Studies: Vol. 25, Renewing Local Democracy? The Modernisation Agenda in British Local Government, pp. 60-75
Consumerism Versus Empowerment
The first purpose of this article is to critically evaluate the particular approach to user involvement and user empowerment adopted by the British government. In order to expose fully the rather shallow basis of this model of user involvement, we use the term ‘consumerism’ to convey the market analogy underpinning the government’s policy and contrast this with genuine empowerment. Secondly, the article contains an outline of the eight key princi…
Central-Local Relations in an Era of Multi-Level Governance
The election of a 'New Labour' UK government in 1997 promised a new era of central-local relations facilitated by a programme of local government reform which recognised local government's 'community leadership' role. Other aspects of the agenda supported the development of multi-level governance, for example, the establishment of sub-national institutions such as the Scottish Parliament and the promotion of neighbourhoods as key sites for action…
Building Collaborative Capacity through `Theories of Change
In the UK a great deal of attention is currently focused on the potential of the `theories of change' approach to evaluating complex public policy interventions. However, there is still relatively little empirical material describing its application. This article discusses the use of `theories of change' in the national evaluation of English Health Action Zones (HAZs). It locates `theories of change' within the wider context of evaluation approac…
Ageing activists
Based on research with members of two Senior Citizens Forums in the South East of England, this article examines the biographies and motivations of those who get involved in such activities, with particular emphasis on (a) how they see themselves in relation to ‘other older people’ and (b) their relationships with the places in which they live. We address these issues in relation to the characterisation of participants in such forums as the ‘usua…
Have Families Been Rethought? Ethic of Care, Family and ‘Whole Family’ Approaches
‘Whole family’ approaches to intervention and prevention have raised the profile of ‘family’ within social policy, where the family is constructed as a site of child care and protection, neglect and disadvantage. However, ‘family’ is a taken-for-granted and narrowly defined concept within policy documentation, and often used interchangeably with ‘parents’. This paper uses Sevenhuijsen's (2003) ‘Trace’ approach to explore the use of the concept of…
Collaborative Capacity and Strategies in Area‐based Initiatives
Despite considerable evaluator investment in examining partnership activity in UK public policy initiatives, little attention has been paid to the role of strategy in supporting the generation and harnessing of the resources necessary to collaborate effectively. This paper focuses on one of the first New Labour initiatives – Health Action Zones (HAZ) – and draws on national evaluation findings to delineate local strategies, assess their applicati…
Discursive Arenas
This article is based on empirical research into public participation in two English cities. It discusses issues related to motivations to take part in public participation initiatives and the way in which individual and collective identities may be constructed through participation. Drawing on social movement theory it emphasises the importance both of networks and values in prompting participation and it illustrates this with examples drawn fro…
Frail bodies, courageous voices
Involving frail older users of health and social care services in decision making presents particular challenges for those committed to hearing the voices of service users. Age Concern Scotland initiated a project in Fife, the User Panels project, intended to enable older people who were unable to leave their homes without assistance to meet together to develop a collective voice expressing the needs and experiences of older service users. This p…
Constructing Theories of Change
`Theories of Change' has proved a popular approach for both evaluators and commissioners of complex social programmes, but the ways in which theories of change (ToC) evaluations have been implemented show considerable variation. This article draws on the ongoing work of the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund (NECF) and argues that the literature which discusses the ToC approach has neglected the process by which theories of change are con…
Promoting Social Change
When New Labour came to power in the UK in 1997 it brought with it a strong commitment to reducing inequality and social exclusion. One strand of its strategy involved a focus on area-based initiatives to reduce the effects of persistent disadvantage. Health Action Zones (HAZs) were the first example of this type of intervention, and their focus on community-based initiatives to tackle the wider social determinants of health inequalities excited …
Transforming Practice with Older People through an Ethic of Care
This article explores the relevance of deliberative practices framed by feminist care ethics to social work practice with older people. It draws on two connected projects which brought together older people: practitioners and academics. The first was a participatory research project in which the significance of care to well-being in old age emerged. The second was a knowledge exchange project which generated learning resources for social care pra…
Inform with Care
Good care is often positioned as a natural by-product of the widespread availability of good information ( association through empirical investigation of the information in the context of dementia care. It combines critiques of the care with insights from the epistemological dimension of care ethics to argue that information is better understood as relational practices of care involve the mobilisation and negotiation of different types of knowled…
Introducing New Stakeholders — User and Researcher Interests in Evaluative Research. A discussion of methods used to evaluate the Birmingham Community Care Special Action Project
This paper argues that public service evaluation should be considered a value-driven activity which has the objective of contributing to change. Researchers undertaking this type of work have legitimate interests to pursue through it and should be regarded as stakeholders in their own right. Reflecting a commitment to changing the balance of power between those who provide and those who receive services, the interests of service users as stakehol…
Design of Information Systems in the Social Sciences. Research Reports, Series A, No. 1. Towards the Improvement of Social Science Information Systems
User Involvement in Community Care
Whilst the drive towards public sector consumerism is intensifying, it is also evident that somewhat different ‘brands’ of consumerism are currently being marketed. This article develops a framework to assist in the disaggregation and understanding of the range of approaches to consumerism currently being pursued in the field of health and social care. Its principal elements concern the ideological origins of consumerism in this field; their purp…
Introducing New Stakeholders — User and Researcher Interests in Evaluative Research. A discussion of methods used to evaluate the Birmingham Community Care Special Action Project
This paper argues that public service evaluation should be considered a value-driven activity which has the objective of contributing to change. Researchers undertaking this type of work have legitimate interests to pursue through it and should be regarded as stakeholders in their own right. Reflecting a commitment to changing the balance of power between those who provide and those who receive services, the interests of service users as stakehol…
Consumerism Versus Empowerment
The first purpose of this article is to critically evaluate the particular approach to user involvement and user empowerment adopted by the British government. In order to expose fully the rather shallow basis of this model of user involvement, we use the term ‘consumerism’ to convey the market analogy underpinning the government’s policy and contrast this with genuine empowerment. Secondly, the article contains an outline of the eight key princi…
Citizens in detention
Praise and Damnation
User involvement’ is a contemporary policy initiative in the UK National Health Service which requires the managers of the service to pay greater attention to the wishes of individual patients/clients and their carers, but also to the representatives of users and the general public. This paper focuses on the responses of health and social care managers to user groups: on the the employment of groups outside the policy/managerial hierarchy as cont…
Frail bodies, courageous voices
Involving frail older users of health and social care services in decision making presents particular challenges for those committed to hearing the voices of service users. Age Concern Scotland initiated a project in Fife, the User Panels project, intended to enable older people who were unable to leave their homes without assistance to meet together to develop a collective voice expressing the needs and experiences of older service users. This p…
Users as Citizens
Self‐organization amongst users of community care services preceded the consumerist developments of the 1980s and early 1990s, but can be considered to have been “legitimized” by top‐down objectives relating to “user involvement”. Nevertheless, the objectives and value bases of disabled people’s organizations and organizations of users (or survivors) of mental health services have not always been consistent with those of consumerism, and user gro…
Researching public participation
1999). Researching public participation. Local Government Studies: Vol. 25, Renewing Local Democracy? The Modernisation Agenda in British Local Government, pp. 60-75
Building Collaborative Capacity through `Theories of Change
In the UK a great deal of attention is currently focused on the potential of the `theories of change' approach to evaluating complex public policy interventions. However, there is still relatively little empirical material describing its application. This article discusses the use of `theories of change' in the national evaluation of English Health Action Zones (HAZs). It locates `theories of change' within the wider context of evaluation approac…
Health Action Zones
New Labour has placed partnership across sectors, and with users and communities, at the core of its approach to achieving change. Health Action Zones (HAZs), as one of the earliest and most ambitious of New Labour's initiatives, reflect this focus and their experience offers useful insights for developing such ways of working in future. Research by the national HAZ evaluation team suggests that the ability and willingness of partner agencies to …
Bringing difference into deliberation? Disabled people, survivors and local governance
English This article discusses the rules of the game in participatory democracy and the engagement of disabled people and mental health service users/survivors in the process. Drawing on theories of new social movements and of deliberative democracy, the article considers how notions of ‘legitimate participants’ are constructed within official discourse, and how those can be challenged by autonomous groups of disabled people. It also explores ass…
Evidence, Understanding and Complexity
This article discusses the challenges associated with the evaluation of complex policy initiatives, focusing on one element of the national evaluation of Health Action Zones in England: Building Capacity for Collaboration. It describes the multiple dimensions of complexity that characterize HAZs and considers the limitations of the Theory of Change approach in encompassing the diverse change processes that HAZs seek to promote. Drawing on social …
Constituting ‘the public’ in public participation
The emphasis on public participation in contemporary policy discourse has prompted the development of a wide range of forums within which dialogue takes place between citizens and officials. Often such initiatives are intended to contribute to objectives relating to social exclusion and democratic renewal. The question of ‘who takes part’ within such forums is, then, critical to an understanding of how far new types of forums can contribute to th…
Power, Participation and Political Renewal
Contemporary interest in citizen engagement in public policy stems from a concern with the governance and quality of public service delivery, with improving the legitimacy of decision making and witharticulating the claims of those previously marginalised (Barnes and Bowl 2001; Newman 2001; Sullivan and Skelcher 2002). This article discusses recent research into the diversity of sites and practices of public participation in two contrasting Engli…
Central-Local Relations in an Era of Multi-Level Governance
The election of a 'New Labour' UK government in 1997 promised a new era of central-local relations facilitated by a programme of local government reform which recognised local government's 'community leadership' role. Other aspects of the agenda supported the development of multi-level governance, for example, the establishment of sub-national institutions such as the Scottish Parliament and the promotion of neighbourhoods as key sites for action…
Recent research
The contemporary emphasis on public participation in policy making derives both from concerns to increase the legitimacy of public decision making and to develop more dialogic forms of governance, and from more 'bottom-up' action intended to ensure that the voices of those excluded from policy making are heard. This has resulted in diverse forms of participative practice, including forums in which social movement organizations meet officials, and…
Public Participation and Collaborative Governance
This paper draws on the findings of a study within the ESRC's Democracy and Participation Programme. It explores the processes of participation within deliberative forums - such as user panels, youth forums, area based committees - developed as a means of encouraging a more active, participating mode of citizenship and of improving welfare services by making them more responsive to users. Our findings open up a number of issues about constraints …
The same old process? Older people, participation and deliberation
Opportunities for older people to take part in decision making about public policies and services are expanding in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. This paper considers the potential of older people's participation in policy processes for both transforming the policy process and for achieving socially just outcomes. It argues that the way in which such participation takes place, in particular the nature of the deliberative processes, affects bot…
Promoting Social Change
When New Labour came to power in the UK in 1997 it brought with it a strong commitment to reducing inequality and social exclusion. One strand of its strategy involved a focus on area-based initiatives to reduce the effects of persistent disadvantage. Health Action Zones (HAZs) were the first example of this type of intervention, and their focus on community-based initiatives to tackle the wider social determinants of health inequalities excited …
Collaborative Capacity and Strategies in Area‐based Initiatives
Despite considerable evaluator investment in examining partnership activity in UK public policy initiatives, little attention has been paid to the role of strategy in supporting the generation and harnessing of the resources necessary to collaborate effectively. This paper focuses on one of the first New Labour initiatives – Health Action Zones (HAZ) – and draws on national evaluation findings to delineate local strategies, assess their applicati…
Discursive Arenas
This article is based on empirical research into public participation in two English cities. It discusses issues related to motivations to take part in public participation initiatives and the way in which individual and collective identities may be constructed through participation. Drawing on social movement theory it emphasises the importance both of networks and values in prompting participation and it illustrates this with examples drawn fro…
Power, participation and political renewal
Power, participation and political renewalCase studies in public participation
Based on an ESRC funded project, this presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of 17 deliberative forums in two English cities
Networks, Connectedness and Resilience
During the past decade, expectations placed on child welfare services in the UK have moved away from individualised provision geared to meeting the needs of specific children at risk, to consideration of the broader context for children. The introduction of a series of national programmes aimed at addressing social exclusion and tasked with stimulating new approaches to enabling better outcomes for children formed the background for the recent le…
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