The re-signification of state-funded community development in Ireland: a problem of austerity and neoliberal government

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dc.contributor.authorMeade, Rosie R.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-20T14:58:56Z
dc.date.available2024-11-20T14:58:56Z
dc.date.issued2018en
dc.description.abstractThis article analyses the changing rationalities and techniques through which the Irish state seeks to govern community development; specifically, how the displacement of its flagship Community Development Programme by the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme has been justified and operationalised. Adopting a governmentality perspective, it explains how community development came to be constructed as an anti-poverty strategy and why it should also be understood as a ‘technology of government’. This article argues that the changing governmentalities shaping Irish community development are reflected in a re-problematisation and re-signification of community development’s purposes, rationalities and sources of legitimacy. Under the cover of austerity’s manufactured public spending crisis and new forms of expertise, preoccupations with effectiveness, efficiency and international best practice have intensified, thus demonstrating ongoing incursions by neoliberal ideas and practices in Irish Social Policy.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationMeade, R.R. (2018) ‘The re-signification of state-funded community development in Ireland: a problem of austerity and neoliberal government’, Critical Social Policy, 38(2), pp. 222–243. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018317701611en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0261018317701611en
dc.identifier.eissn1461-703Xen
dc.identifier.endpage243en
dc.identifier.issn0261-0183en
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCritical Social Policyen
dc.identifier.startpage222en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16662
dc.identifier.volume38en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.rights© The Author, 2018. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.en
dc.subjectCommunity developmenten
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen
dc.subjectAusterityen
dc.subjectGovernmentalitiesen
dc.subjectStateen
dc.titleThe re-signification of state-funded community development in Ireland: a problem of austerity and neoliberal governmenten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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