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Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order Kevin Ryan

Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order By Kevin Ryan

Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order by Kevin Ryan


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The politics of order has long divided those deemed fit to exercise freedom from others perceived to pose a threat to the safety and security of society. This book examines the implication of this switch from an order based on exclusion to one based on inclusion.

Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order Summary

Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order by Kevin Ryan

The politics of order has long divided those deemed fit to exercise freedom from others perceived to pose a threat to the safety and security of society, with paupers, vagabonds and unmarried mothers (among others) subjected to various controls in defence of social order, historical progress and national unity. In the closing decades of the twentieth century this relation between inclusion and exclusion became the explicit focus of political thought and action, in part because the excluded organised to demand recognition, equality and rights, but also because of innovations which originated in historically constituted strains and stresses built into the mode of ordering itself. Taking an original and accessible approach, the book traces out the historical roots of this process of transformation, beginning with an analysis of poverty and pauperism in the nineteenth century and continuing with a detailed examination of nomadism, disability, youth and lone parenting in the twentieth century. The central argument is that a new mode of governing has been assembled, which organises actors and agencies from the spheres of state, market and civil society into various forms of partnership. This shift from an order built on exclusion to one based on the rule of inclusion recasts the modern projects of equality and emancipation, which have neither been accomplished nor abandoned. Instead they have been reconfigured, with the new arts of inclusive governance simultaneously anticipating disturbances and recruiting the socially excluded into the dual task of governing their self and managing order. Drawing on recent Foucauldian-inspired research and governmentality theory, the book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students with an interest in the changing nature of government, policy and political struggle.

About Kevin Ryan

Kevin Ryan is Lecturer in Political Theory at the National University of Ireland Galway

Table of Contents

Introduction I: APPROACHING THE EVENT 1. The new poverty, the underclass, and social exclusion 2. Stalking the present: a genealogical strategy II LIBERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF SOCIETY 3. The constitution of poverty and the social question: the ordering techniques 4. Two programmatic statements in the politics of order: the ordering modality III FROM GOVERNING THROUGH OCIETY TO INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE 5. Vagabondage and nomadism 6. Defectiveness and disability 7. Juvenile delinquency and youth at risk 8. Unmarried motherhood and lone parenting 9. Inclusive governance: encircling and encircled by exclusion

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GOR009762464
9780719075537
071907553X
Social Exclusion and the Politics of Order by Kevin Ryan
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Manchester University Press
20070801
328
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