Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity

This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and political discourses, exposing the political consequences for women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have critiqued the ways in which austerity has capt...

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1. Verfasser: Gedalof, Irene (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
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ISBN:9781137400659
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Narrative, Difference, Austerity; Chapter 1: Turning around Equalities
  • Chapter 2: Doing the Right Thing: welfare reform narratives and the crafting of consent
  • Chapter 3: Work Yourself Better: the disabled person as benefit scrounger
  • Chapter 4: Social JusticeTM(DWP) and the Trouble with Families
  • Chapter 5: Attachment and Disgust in Narratives of UK Family Migration Policy
  • Chapter 6: Places of Sameness: Integration Policy, Localism and the Big Society.