‘Downpressor Man’: securitisation, safeguarding and social work
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McKendrick, David and Finch, J. 2017. ‘Downpressor Man’: securitisation, safeguarding and social work. Critical and Radical Social Work. 5 (3), pp. 287-300. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986017X15029697482460
Authors | McKendrick, David and Finch, J. |
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Abstract | The Counter Terrorism and Security Act came into force in July 2015 in the UK. This places a statutory duty on many frontline organisations, i.e schools, social services, and prisons for example, to work within the PREVENT agenda, a policy arising from Britain’s overall counter-terrorism policy, CONTEST. We argue that PREVENT is representative of increasing securitised social policies, that serve to firstly, view people within particular individualised neo-liberal discourses and thin narratives, and, secondly, serves to coerce the profession of social work into hitherto unknown areas, namely, national security and counter-terrorism. We note the unapologetic linkage of traditional forms of what we term here, “welfare safeguarding” customarily the domain of social work, with what we term “security safeguarding”. If the profession of social work in the UK, and we suspect other Western regimes, wishes to avoid becoming a profession of “downpressor men”, the uncritical incursion into issues of national security and counter-terrorism must be highlighted. |
Journal | Critical and Radical Social Work |
Journal citation | 5 (3), pp. 287-300 |
ISSN | 2049-8608 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Accepted author manuscript | License |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1332/204986017X15029697482460 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1332/204986017X15029697482460 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 12 Sep 2017 |
01 Nov 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 20 Sep 2017 |
Accepted | 12 Sep 2017 |
Copyright information | © 2017 Policy Press. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Critical and Radical Social Work. The definitive publisher-authenticated version McKendrick, D. and Finch, J. (2017) “Downpressor Man”: Securitisation, safeguarding and social work, Critical and Radical Social Work is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/204986017X15029697482460. |
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