Eleven Participation and social justice
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Marian Barnes
Abstract
This chapter offers some conceptual frameworks that could contribute to facilitating the increased reflexivity on the part of service users and their movements advocated by Beresford. It considers the principles that (should) inform participatory approaches to governance and service delivery, and specifically, the principles underpinning the issue of who precisely is to participate. It explores the tensions between the principles of ‘local representation’ and ‘local knowledge’ — principles frequently and simultaneously in evidence in participatory processes of governance and service delivery. It examines the question of the consequences of participation and user involvement for social justice. It offers a framework for assessing the social justice outcomes of user involvement, drawing on a conceptualisation of social justice as both recognition and redistribution, and a distinction between ‘affirmative’ and ‘transformative’ recognition and redistributive policy strategies. It applies this framework to assessing whether and how the situation of people with mental health problems and carers has benefited from user involvement initiatives.
Abstract
This chapter offers some conceptual frameworks that could contribute to facilitating the increased reflexivity on the part of service users and their movements advocated by Beresford. It considers the principles that (should) inform participatory approaches to governance and service delivery, and specifically, the principles underpinning the issue of who precisely is to participate. It explores the tensions between the principles of ‘local representation’ and ‘local knowledge’ — principles frequently and simultaneously in evidence in participatory processes of governance and service delivery. It examines the question of the consequences of participation and user involvement for social justice. It offers a framework for assessing the social justice outcomes of user involvement, drawing on a conceptualisation of social justice as both recognition and redistribution, and a distinction between ‘affirmative’ and ‘transformative’ recognition and redistributive policy strategies. It applies this framework to assessing whether and how the situation of people with mental health problems and carers has benefited from user involvement initiatives.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List on contributors vii
- Introduction 1
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Current developments
- Education policy and policy making, 1997–2009 13
- Children’s social care under New Labour 31
- Health policy under New Labour: not what it seems? 51
- Towards a social democratic pension system? Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts1 71
- Minimum income standards and household budgets 97
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Current issues and debates
- Re-connecting with ‘what unemployment means’: employability, the experience of unemployment and priorities for policy in an era of crisis 121
- Facing the ‘dark side’ of deregulation? The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis 149
- ‘Flexibility’, xenophobia and exploitation: modern slavery in the UK 173
- Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala’s social policy 199
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Service user involvement
- Service users and social policy: developing different discussions, challenging dominant discourses 227
- Participation and social justice 253
- Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities 275
- Responding to unhappy childhoods in the UK: enhancing young people’s ‘well-being’ through participatory action research 291
- Service users as peer research interviewers: why bother? 317
- Index 337
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List on contributors vii
- Introduction 1
-
Current developments
- Education policy and policy making, 1997–2009 13
- Children’s social care under New Labour 31
- Health policy under New Labour: not what it seems? 51
- Towards a social democratic pension system? Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts1 71
- Minimum income standards and household budgets 97
-
Current issues and debates
- Re-connecting with ‘what unemployment means’: employability, the experience of unemployment and priorities for policy in an era of crisis 121
- Facing the ‘dark side’ of deregulation? The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis 149
- ‘Flexibility’, xenophobia and exploitation: modern slavery in the UK 173
- Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala’s social policy 199
-
Service user involvement
- Service users and social policy: developing different discussions, challenging dominant discourses 227
- Participation and social justice 253
- Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities 275
- Responding to unhappy childhoods in the UK: enhancing young people’s ‘well-being’ through participatory action research 291
- Service users as peer research interviewers: why bother? 317
- Index 337
