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Relational Perspective (relational + perspective)
Selected AbstractsPERSUASION AS GOVERNANCE: A STATE-CENTRIC RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVEPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 3 2010STEPHEN BELL Debates about governance and the relationship between governance and government have focused upon markets, hierarchies and networks as principal modes of governance. In this paper we argue that persuasion constitutes a further and distinctive mode of governance, albeit one which interpenetrates other modes of governance. In order to assess the nature, limitations and scope of persuasion and the complex relationships between markets, hierarchies, networks on the one hand and persuasion on the other, we interpret persuasion through the prism of two theoretical perspectives on governance. We argue that the society-centred perspective usefully draws our attention to the role played by non-state actors in the exercise of governance through persuasion but that a state-centric relational account can help us to better understand important facets of persuasion as a mode of governance. [source] Truth, human relatedness, and the analytic process: An interpersonal/relational perspectiveTHE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 2 2009Philip M. Bromberg First page of article [source] Empowerment in social work: an individual vs. a relational perspectiveINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE, Issue 1 2007Dag Leonardsen Social workers with only an individualistic understanding of empowerment will easily end up as moralising agents rather than as facilitators for their clients. It is in the complex interaction between a given socio-material situation and the individual capacity to interpret and act that one finds the key to an empowerment worthy of its name. This presupposes two things: that social workers have as a part of their education theoretical knowledge about organisational structures, and that they themselves have been empowered in ways that give them practical competence to act in relation to situations. They need the competence to identify the complexities of interests and power relations in society. The implication of such a recogni-tion should be clear for the education of social workers: the ideology of empowerment has to be contextualised. To discuss this topic the author makes a distinction between an individua-listic and a relational perspective and between social problems conceived of as a ,lack of money' vs. a ,lack of meaning'. [source] Coercive treatment for drug misuse: a dialogical junctureJOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 5 2004Christine Horrocks Abstract This article adopts a ,dialogical' relational perspective to explore the recently introduced initiative of coercive treatment for drug misuse in the UK. Conversational interviews were undertaken with 11 people who had been sentenced to the Drug Treatment and Testing Order. Receiving treatment for drug misuse is often storied within a motivational account that is expectant of a ,readiness to change'; such assumptions seem theoretically problematic when change is legally imposed. Therefore, moral and ethical concerns surround the introduction of this initiative, however the interview data illustrates the potential that participation might offer for the creation of ,counterstories' where a more moral self can be enacted. Our analysis suggests that this counterstory is co-constructed thus being an outcome of both self and other. Furthermore such stories appear fragile; constantly under assault from detrimental authoritative discourses that are not only part of wider social understandings around drug misuse but also permeate the policy and practice of coercive treatment. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | ||||||||||