Personalizing the state : an anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain / Insa Lee Koch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koch, Insa Lee, author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology.

Oxford scholarship online.

Clarendon studies in criminology

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Great Britain.

Ethnology.

Public welfare--Great Britain.

Public welfare.

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Economic conditions.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2018

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Starting with penal populism, this text examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience their daily engagements with the state.

Contents:

Introduction: Questioning the Punitive Paradox 1. A Political History of Council Estates: Council Estates as State-Building Projects 2. The Good Person and the Bad Citizen: History, Class, and Sociality 3. Precarious Homes: Encounters with the Benefit System 4. Troubled Neighbourhoods: Encounters with Housing Authorities 5. Dangerous Streets: Encounters with the Police 6 Political Brokers: Active Citizenship 7. Democracy as Punishment: Brexit and Austerity Politics Conclusion: A Different Kind of Paradox

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-253447-5

0-19-184543-4

0-19-253446-7