Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-v

List of figures and tables

pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-viii

Part One - Introduction

pp 1-2

one - Examining the idea of ‘subversion’ in public services

pp 3-14

Part Two - Perspectives on subversive citizenship

pp 15-16

two - Policy, power and the potential for counter-agency

pp 17-32

three - Alliances, contention and oppositional consciousness: can public participation generate subversion?

pp 33-48

four - Subversive spheres: neighbourhoods, citizens and the ‘new governance’

pp 49-66

five - Narrating subversion, assembling citizenship

pp 67-82

six - Subversive subjects and conditional, earned and denied citizenship

pp 83-98

Part Three - Subversive citizens in public service settings

pp 99-100

seven - Family intervention projects: sites of subversion and resilience

pp 101-118

eight - Family decision making: new spaces for participation and resistance

pp 119-136

nine - Subversive attachments: gendered, raced and professional realignments in the ‘new’ NHS

pp 137-154

ten - Managerialism subverted? Exploring the activity of youth justice practitioners

pp 155-170

eleven - Awkward customers? Policing in a consumer age

pp 171-188

Part Four - Conclusion

pp 189-190

twelve - ‘Subversion’ and the analysis of public policy

pp 191-206

References

pp 207-230

Index

pp 231-240