- Title
- Neo-liberalism and the pathologising of public issues: The displacement of feminist service models in domestic violence support services
- Creator
- McDonald, John
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/55652
- Identifier
- vital:567
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0748.2005.00220.x
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-407X
- Abstract
- Using domestic violence support services as a case study, this paper examines how the ascendancy of neo-liberalism has individualised and pathologised public issues. Four perspectives are identified that have been influential in understanding the causes of domestic violence, determining responses to it and measuring the effectiveness of support services. These four perspectives may be categorised as: (i) victim-blaming; (ii) social movement; (iii) empowerment; and (iv) pathologising. From analysing the standard outcome measures currently used for government-funded accommodation programs, the author contends that the pathologising perspective dominates. This is partly attributable to the inherent methodological and ethical issues in evaluating programs of this nature. However, it is primarily driven by the ascendancy of a neoliberal, managerialist ideology that has depoliticised and clinicalised domestic violence. This has effectively silenced structural analyses of domestic violence and displaced feminist service models.; C1
- Publisher
- Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
- Relation
- Australian Social Work Vol. 58 , no. 3 (2005), p. 275-284
- Rights
- Copyright Blackwell
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1607 Social Work; Domestic violence; Neo-liberalism; Refuges
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