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Modernization, welfare and ‘third way’ politics: limits to theorizing in ‘thirds’?
- Source :
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers . 2001, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p43. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- The current period of welfare reform in British politics is taking place within a discourse of modernization described in terms of a ‘third way’. The ideas which constitute this discourse resonate with recent developments within human geography, namely a movement to theorizing ‘in-between’ spaces, a turn to culture and to issues of globalization. This paper suggests that welfare reform is a restructuring project which allows the nature of thinking and acting ‘in thirds’ to be questioned. It problematizes the ‘third way’ approach to cultural modernization and economic globalization as a de-politicized discourse, and argues for the cultural politics and political economics which underpin welfare reform to be foregrounded. As a form of political discourse analysis, it points to the developing need for a welfare geography that is attuned to the languages and practices through which dominant systems of social and economic distribution are constituted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PUBLIC welfare
BRITISH politics & government
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00202754
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10454388
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00005