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Title

Discourses about Australian social housing, social exclusion and employment: indications of the post-welfare state?

Author(s)

Arthurson, Kathy;  Jacobs, Keith

Abstract

The dynamic between housing policy and wider welfare reform has been an important theme within housing scholarship. As a background this paper considers Jamrozik's contention of a transition in social policy from a welfare state to a post welfare paradigm through exploring the impact of ideological discourses for contemporary Australian social housing policy. Our approach combines an analysis of the discourses of social exclusion in two key housing policy documents and interviews with social housing tenants and professionals in South Australia. The analysis serves to illustrate the ways in which contemporary housing policy reflects and is shaped by competing ideological discourses. In particular, it makes explicit how the foundational discourses shaping Australian housing policy has changed considerably over recent years, reflecting, to a large extent, the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on the operation of government policy making.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research

Source

Housing, Theory and Society, Vol. 26, no. 3 (Sep 2009), pp. 179-192

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

160512 Social Policy

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Government policy;  Housing policy;  Ideology;  Social exclusion;  South Australia;  Welfare reform

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1403-6096

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036090801939828

Copyright

Copyright © 2008 Taylor & Francis.

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