1st Edition
Psychology, Punitive Activation and Welfare Blaming the Unemployed
By Rose-Marie Stambe
Copyright 2022
124 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores welfare politics, unemployment, and interventions in relation to the labour market from a critical psychological perspective. Using critical fieldwork and theory, the author explores the administration of the unemployed, and the drive to increase labour market participation through strategies of activation.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Putting critique to work
Chapter 3: A Critique of methods
Chapter 4: Participation, activation and compliance
Chapter 5: Affective governing and the psy-complex
Chapter 6: Unpacking interviews
Chapter 7: Conclusion
List of Figures
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Biography
Rose-Marie Stambe is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her main research interests are in critical qualitative methodology, the welfare-work nexus, social disadvantage and subjectivity.
