1st Edition
Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice Discursive and Rhetorical Approaches
By Laura Tarkiainen
Copyright 2023
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
