ABSTRACT
Identifying a service user voice as such involves layers of production techniques necessary, of course, for anything like social work knowledge or policy critique to emerge, but techniques nonetheless, which decipher the significance of what such perspectives mean. A key part of the personalisation agenda, the policy aimed to promote social inclusion for people with learning disabilities, continuing the long-term move away from state-controlled institutional care, and towards a quasi-market of consumer choice and service user control. Putting the language of popular culture to one side, then, people can see that this interpretative framing is at work in more specific ways, in the concern for good social work. While the language of Nietzsche's account is largely a response to the culture of nineteenth century Europe, contemporary thinkers such as Slavoj zizek have argued that such an account of ressentiment can be leveled at the forms of identity politics and differentiation approaches to social inclusion.
