Disciplining the risky subject: a discourse analysis of the concept of resilience in social work literature.
Summary: The concept of resilience has become an established, taken-for-granted concept in social work. This poststructuralist discourse analysis of randomly sampled social work articles on resilience examines the discursive mechanisms through which the concept of resilience has been constructed in...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social Work Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 152 - 173 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2020
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