Discourses of Deficit

List of Contributors Introduction; C.N.Candlin & J.Crichton PART I: CHARACTERISATION IN THE CONTEXT OF LAW Constructing Vulnerability: The Experience of Children and Other Groups within Legal Discourse; J.Luchjenbroers & M.Aldridge Learning and Unlearning Being Guilty: On the Contingent Ascription of a Deficit Category; T.Scheffer PART II: RESPONSIBILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK Categorizations of Child 'In Need' and Child 'In Need of Protection' and its Implications for the Formulation of 'Deficit' Parenting; C.Hall & S.Slembrouck 'She Is Not Coping': Risk Assessment and Claims of Deficit in Social Work; A.S.Firkins & C.N.Candlin PART III: IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH CARE Narrative, Identity and Care: Joint Problematisation in a Study of People Living With Dementia; J.Crichton & T.Koch 'We're Just Going to be Talking About You...': Identifying Deficits and Achieving Quality in Nurse Patient Discourse; S.Candlin 'You Don't Want to Look Like That for the Rest of Your Life': Contested Discourses of Loss in a Normative Societal Context; L.Stirling, L.Manderson & J.Macfarlane PART IV: RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CONTEXT OF MANAGEMENT Identity Work in Consultancy Projects: Ambiguity and Distribution of Credit and Blame; M.Alvesson & S.Sveningsson On the Discursive Construction of Knowledge Deficits in the 'Alter'; P.Kastberg & M.Grove Ditlevsen PART V: CAPACITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNICATION DISORDER The Discursive Construction of Language Disorders; D.Kovarsky & I.Walsh Public and Private Identity: The Co-Construction of Aphasia Through Discourse; E.Armstrong, A.Ferguson & L.Mortensen PART VI: RECOGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY Epistemic Injustice and the Power to Define: Interviewing Cameroonian Primary School Teachers About Language Education; E.Esch Absence as Deficit in Assessing Intercultural Capability; A.Scarino PART VII: AGENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF MARKETING Discourses of Deficit and Deficits of Discourse: Computers, Disability and Mediated Action; R.Jones Young Peoples' Binge Drinking Constituted as a Deficit of Individual Self-Control in UK Government Alcohol Policy; C.Hackley, A.Bengry-Howell, C.Griffin, W.Mistral & I.Szmigin PART VIII: MEMBERSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF INSTITUTIONAL APPRAISAL Measuring Deficit; T.McNamara A Neo-Colonial Farce? Discourses of Deficit in Australian Aboriginal Land Claim and Native Title Cases; M.Walsh Index