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Subjects of, or Subject to, Policy Reform? A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Regulation and Resistance in UK Narratives of Educational Impacts of Welfare Cuts: The Case of the 'Bedroom Tax'

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Title: Subjects of, or Subject to, Policy Reform? A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Regulation and Resistance in UK Narratives of Educational Impacts of Welfare Cuts: The Case of the 'Bedroom Tax'
Language: English
Authors: Burman, Erica, Greenstein, Anat, Bragg, Jo, Hanley, Terry, Kalambouka, Afroditi, Lupton, Ruth, McCoy, Lauren, Sapin, Kate, Winter, Laura
Source: Education Policy Analysis Archives. Mar 2017 25(26).
Availability: Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 31
Publication Date: 2017
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Welfare Services, Housing, Taxes, Public Policy, Political Attitudes, Neoliberalism, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Poverty, Personal Narratives, Community Organizations, Policy Analysis, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Food, Attendance, Parent Child Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Qualitative Research
Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1068-2341
Abstract: This paper draws on material generated from a qualitative study of educational impacts of a British welfare reform affecting housing rent subsidy, size and location commonly known as "the bedroom tax" (Bragg et al., 2015), which was partly taken as a topic for study specifically because of its iconic status as a controversial and unpopular welfare "reform" (or cut). The analysis draws on Foucauldian understandings of subjectification or subject-formation--as elaborated both from within and in relation to the social (Foucault, 1970; 1983; Ball, 1990; Olssen, 2006; Popkewitz & Brennan, 1998), read through new and newly available perspectives (Allen, 2015; Pêcheux, 2014). This approach is applied to discuss how those addressed by educational policy, and also as research participants, are both subject to prevailing political and practice-oriented discourses (of educational "problems", and of the neoliberal frameworks by which poverty and welfare cuts are discussed), but also--at times--how they can become the subject of--in the sense of reformulating--these discourses in their accounts of everyday activities. After outlining our approach and the context for the study, we focus on four examples drawn from the narratives of the various stakeholders in the study--parents/carers, school staff and other community-based organisations as illustrations of how this discursive approach can provide rich readings of relevance to educational policy debates. From these we not only take further discussions of the production and regulation of subjectivities via social and educational policy practices, but also offer indicative glimpses of resistance to this as expressed by those who are its primary subjects, and where in one case such resistance brings our own research commitments under critical scrutiny. As such, the contribution of this article is both topic-related (concerning the educational impacts of policy) but, crucially, also conceptual and methodological, in motivating for a Foucauldian-influenced discursive approach that is sensitive to struggle and resistance.
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