Discourses of Deficit

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Constructing Vulnerability: The Experience of Children and Other Groups within Legal Discourse....Pages 25-41
Learning and Unlearning Being Guilty: On the Contingent Ascription of a Deficit Category....Pages 42-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Categorisations of Child ‘in Need’ and Child ‘in Need of Protection’ and Implications for the Formulation of ‘Deficit’ Parenting....Pages 63-80
‘She is not coping’: Risk Assessment and Claims of Deficit in Social Work....Pages 81-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Narrative, Identity and Care: Joint Problematisation in a Study of People Living with Dementia....Pages 101-118
‘We’re just going to be talking about you …’: Identifying Deficits and Achieving Quality in Nurse-Patient Discourse....Pages 119-136
‘You don’t want to look like that for the rest of your life’: Contested Discourses of Loss in a Normative Societal Context....Pages 137-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Identity Work in Consultancy Projects: Ambiguity and Distribution of Credit and Blame....Pages 159-174
On the Discursive Construction of Knowledge Deficits in the ‘Alter’....Pages 175-191
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The Discursive Construction of Language Disorders....Pages 195-214
Public and Private Identity: The Co-construction of Aphasia through Discourse....Pages 215-231
Front Matter....Pages 233-233
Epistemic Injustice and the Power to Define: Interviewing Cameroonian Primary School Teachers about Language Education....Pages 235-255
Absence as Deficit in Assessing Intercultural Capability....Pages 256-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Discourses of Deficit and Deficits of Discourse: Computers, Disability and Mediated Action....Pages 275-292
Young Peoples’ Binge Drinking Constituted as a Deficit of Individual Self-control in UK Government Alcohol Policy....Pages 293-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Measuring Deficit....Pages 311-326
A Neo-colonial Farce? Discourses of Deficit in Australian Aboriginal Land Claim and Native Title Cases....Pages 327-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-353