Challenging the Normative Truth Logic in the Politics of Apology
A Quest for Recognition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10895467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lieselot De Wilde (0000-0003-4703-477X, Ghent University, corresponding author), G Roets (0000-0003-0746-998X, Ghent University), Bruno Vanobbergen (Ghent University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 653-669 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcy076 |
| OpenAlex | W2890727945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
In recent years, the historical abuse perpetrated against children in residential child-welfare and protection services has increasingly been perceived as a public concern. In the context of this European and global development, several formal inquiries commissioned by authorities into the alleged historical abuse of children in social work services were perceived as a political priority to repair human injustices, and were set up as an attempt to come to terms with the failure of social welfare policies and services in the past. The number of official public apologies has continued to increase since the turn of the century. In this article, we radically question the normative truth logic that is at stake in these politics of apology as a way to give recognition on both an individual and a collective level, and argue that social work needs to critically deal with its own confusing history, with which it is interwoven, to be able to clarify what contemporary social work represents.
Epistemology · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Law · Military, Security, and Education Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
Unspeakable Truths
Articles of faith
Conceptualising Responses to Institutional Abuse of Children
Peace and the Culture and Politics of Apology
Memory, History, Nation
The ‘Change for Children’ Programme in England
Risk, Reflexivity and Social Control in Child Protection
Reconstructing the Foundations of Joined-Up Working
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs)
Complexity and Integrated Working in Children's Services
Risk, Advanced Liberalism and Child Welfare
The Impact of Audit on Social Work Practice
Risk, Instrumentalism and the Humane Project in Social Work
Saying Sorry
Social work with victims of genocide
Practising history
Seeking Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
The Irish Charity Myth, Child Abuse and Human Rights
Introduction
Historical apologies as acts of symbolic inclusion - and exclusion? Reflections on institutional apologies as politics of cultural citizenship
Writing the Past Out of the Present
Researching child poverty
Child-Centric Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Fragmentation of Child Welfare Practice in England
Abused and Looked After Children as 'Moral Dirt
Reconsidering the Recent History of Child Sexual Abuse, 1910-1960
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |