%0 Journal Article %T Rationalities, Practices, and Resistance in Post-Welfarism. A Comment on Kevin Stenson %A Kessl %A Fabian %A Kutscher %A Nadia %J Social Work and Society %D 2008 %I Social Work & Society %X According to Stenson, the former welfare arrangements are in a process of a fundamental re-ordering. Or as this SW&S-Special Issue claims: the spatial scales of the welfare states are under siege. In this analysis, Stenson affirms the prevalent description of a fundamental shift of former welfare arrangements since the last third of the 20th century (see for welfare policy research, research on human services and social work: Castel 2003; Clarke 2004; Gilbert 2004; Lessenich 2008/forthcoming; Marston/McDonald 2006; Webb 2006). %U http://www.socwork.net/2008/1/special_issue/kesslkutscher