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Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship: Deprivation and Affluence in Austerity Britain [Kietas viršelis]

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(University of Leeds)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 224 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, Not illustrated
  • Išleidimo metai: 07-Mar-2018
  • Leidėjas: Policy Press
  • ISBN-10: 1447337468
  • ISBN-13: 9781447337461
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 224 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, Not illustrated
  • Išleidimo metai: 07-Mar-2018
  • Leidėjas: Policy Press
  • ISBN-10: 1447337468
  • ISBN-13: 9781447337461
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Exploring the lived realities of both poverty and prosperity in the UK, this book examines the material and symbolic significance of welfare austerity and its implications for social citizenship and inequality. The book offers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours of the rich as well as the poor, demonstrating how those marginalised and validated by the existing welfare system make sense of the prevailing socio-political settlement and their own position within it.



Through the testimonies of both affluent and deprived citizens, the book problematises dominant policy thinking surrounding the functions and limits of welfare, examining the civic attitudes and engagements of the rich and the poor, to demonstrate how welfare austerity and rising structural inequalities secure and maintain institutional legitimacy.



The book offers a timely contribution to academic and policy debates pertaining to citizenship, welfare reform and inequality.

Recenzijos

"Scary but crucial reading. Edmiston's analysis of lived narratives shows how policy framing the poor as `bad' and the rich as `good' shape public attitudes towards poverty and inequality." Louise Humpage, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Auckland "A must read for anyone interested in inequality and social citizenship, this book provides a careful - but damning - assessment of current policies and politics." Tracy Shildrick, University of Newcastle "Through rigorous empirical fieldwork and informed theorising this excellent book explores how lived experiences of inequality generate particular forms of knowledge, understanding and action among affluent and disadvantaged citizens." Peter Dwyer, University of York

List of tables and figures
v
Acknowledgements vi
One Introduction
1(14)
Welfare austerity: perjury, punishment and destitution
2(5)
Towards an explanatory account of `unequal citizenship'
7(3)
Book overview and research design
10(5)
Two Unequal citizenship? The new social divisions of public welfare
15(28)
Introduction
15(1)
Towards neoliberal citizenship: your risk, your reward
16(14)
The new social divisions and distributional effects of public welfare
30(7)
Citizenship status and identity: validation and contingency
37(4)
Conclusion
41(2)
Three Lived experiences of poverty and prosperity in austerity Britain
43(24)
Introduction
43(1)
Poverty and plenty
44(6)
Work and worklessness
50(5)
Area deprivation and affluence
55(3)
The material and symbolic significance of inequality
58(7)
Conclusion
65(2)
Four The sociological imagination of rich and poor citizens
67(30)
Introduction
67(3)
Welfare attitudes and inequality: knowledge and attitude formation
70(3)
The `deserving workless poor': Becky
73(3)
The `undeserving workless poor': Aimee
76(7)
The `deserving working poor': James
83(3)
The `undeserving working rich': Robert
86(4)
Structure versus agency: explaining attitudinal divergence
90(4)
Conclusion
94(3)
Five Heterodox citizens? Conceptions of social rights and responsibilities
97(32)
Introduction
97(3)
Claiming versus earning the social rights of citizenship
100(11)
Conceiving and enacting responsible citizenship
111(7)
Resistance and resignation to the prevailing citizenship configuration
118(5)
From welfare deficits to institutional disengagement?
123(3)
Conclusion
126(3)
Six Identity, difference and citizenship: a fraying tapestry?
129(20)
Introduction
129(1)
Identity, difference and liberal citizenship
130(2)
Citizenship and the gendered division of (care) labour
132(3)
Citizenship, race and place
135(3)
Universalism versus particularism
138(1)
The warp and weft of collective (dis-) identification
139(6)
Conclusion
145(4)
Seven Deliberating the structural determinants of poverty and inequality
149(20)
Introduction
149(3)
Poor debate: entrenched attitudes towards poverty and inequality
152(6)
Galvanising public opinion towards socially inclusive ends
158(8)
Conclusion
166(3)
Eight Conclusion
169(12)
The rise of anti-social citizenship?
170(4)
Implications for welfare policy and politics
174(7)
Appendix: Details of the qualitative fieldwork 181(4)
References 185(28)
Index 213
Dr Daniel Edmiston is a lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy and has previously worked for the Economic and Social Research Council; Prime Ministers Strategy Unit; and the University of Oxford. His research interests include poverty and inequality, comparative welfare reform, welfare state futures, and the political economy of social citizenship.