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作者

来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.33,Issue5,P.684-707

语言

英文

关键字

Social housing; welfare state; problem families; discourse; eugenics; SOCIAL-PROBLEM GROUP; MULTIPROBLEM FAMILIES; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY; POLICY; WORK; REHABILITATION; PEDIGREES; HEREDITY; PROJECTS

作者单位

[Flanagan, Kathleen] Univ Tasmania, Housing & Community Res Unit, Hobart, Tas, Australia. Flanagan, K (reprint author), Univ Tasmania, Housing & Community Res Unit, Hobart, Tas, Australia. E-Mail: kathleen.flanagan@utas.edu.au

摘要

This article contributes to a chain of literature extending back to the late nineteenth century on the problem family', particularly when encountered by housing providers as the problem' tenant. Using archival evidence of the techniques employed by one social housing provider in the mid-1970s to identify a definitive solution to the challenges posed by problem' households, I trace the patterns and practices in problem family' discourse more broadly, and their intersection with those of other discursive fields, particularly eugenics and social work. I show how attempts to define, identify and design models of rehabilitation for problem families' can be understood as forms of a discursive strategy which Foucault identified as commentary', and argue that such commentary remains intrinsic to welfare state efforts to tackle entrenched disadvantage.