Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice

Discursive and Rhetorical Approaches
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-12708-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 207 g

Reihe: Social Welfare Around the World

This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements.

Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations are generated in the twenty-first century by focusing on the analysis of discourse and rhetoric of policymakers, reality TV participants, frontline workers and unemployed individuals, it shows that different actors actively participate in constructing representations of deservingness through which variety of political, practical and social implications and objectives are achieved and performed. The book addresses key themes such as:

• What kinds of rhetorical and discursive tactics can be associated with un/deservingness?

• How deservingness is accomplished as a speech act?

• How different actors such as policymakers, reality TV programme participants, frontline workers and individual citizens participate in constructing un/deservingness?

• What kind of practical implications and consequences deservingness representations have for policy making, frontline work and research

This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, social work, sociology, social psychology, political science and media studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tarkiainen, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction. 2.Deservingness Theories and Conceptualisations. 3.Policy Discourse and Deservingness. 4.Reality TV’s Representations of Deservingness. 5.Frontline Workers and Deservingness Assessments. 6.Deservingness Negotiated in Research Settings with Individuals. 7.Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Tarkiainen (DSocSc) is a university lecturer and postdoctoral social work researcher at Tampere University. Laura’s research interests concern discourses on prolonged unemployment, conditionalities, poverty and deservingness.