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Type: | Thesis |
Title: | The amateur writes back : new theoretical directions for progressive left politics and social policy. |
Author: | Goodwin-Smith, Ian |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
School/Discipline: | School of History and Politics : Politics |
Abstract: | This work develops an opportunity for transgressive resistance to discursively formed structures of material and theoretical power and closure, based on a methodology of amateurism. The concept of amateurism draws heavily on the writing of Edward Said. This work synthesises Said with a broader corpus of postcolonial theory, following a theoretically postcolonial trajectory which applies the lessons from that referent to an engagement with traditional theoretical and cultural closure. The central thesis of the engagement follows a critique of strong ontology and vertical epistemology, or of expertise. Through an examination of health policy around birth, and sociological approaches to health, that critique is deployed to invigorate a new critical direction for the Left with a focus on subjectivity, social policy, social democracy and substantive citizenship. |
Advisor: | McCarthy, Greg Ahluwalia, Davinder Pal Singh |
Dissertation Note: | Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of History and Politics, 2008 |
Subject: | Right and left (Political science) Social policy Medical policy Social aspects. Postcolonialism. |
Keywords: | postcolonial theory; new left; amateurism; social policy; sociology of birth |
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