International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 27 Issue 11/12

Discourse, practice, policy and organizing: some opening comments

Cliff Oswick, Tom Keenoy, Armin Beverungen, Nick Ellis, Ida Sabelis, Sierk Ybema

The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing.

Outsourcing (the) economy to India: utopian and dystopian discourses of offshoring

David Knights, Beverley Jones

The purpose of this paper is to examine critically both utopian and dystopian discourses of offshoring so that a more considered, nonetheless theoretically informed, view of the…

Facing culture: the (de)legitimation of social work

Marja Gastelaars, Marleen van der Haar

The purpose of this paper is to explore how Dutch social workers make sense of the cultural otherness produced by clients with migrant origins and relates this to the various…

Operationalizing Iraqi freedom: Governmentality, neo‐liberalism and new public management in the war in Iraq

Zoë H. Wool

To understand practices of inscription and description used by the US Government in the production of discourse concerning the war in Iraq as part of the post 9/11 War on Terror…

Institutional transformation through positive textual deviance

Danielle P. Zandee, Diana Bilimoria

The paper aims to explore an affirmative, discursive perspective for its potential to expand the current understanding of processes of institutional transformation.

A discursive study of institutionalisation in community organisations

Peri O'Shea

The institutionalisation of neo‐liberalist discourse has significantly changed the way in which the relationship between government and community organisations is described and…

The ideology of markets and the practice of policy: objectivity, control and the objectionable

Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley

The purpose of this paper is to briefly explore some recent curious interlocking of the ideology of markets and the practice of policy.