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Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice: Discursive and Rhetorical Approaches

Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice: Discursive and Rhetorical Approaches

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Series: Social Welfare Around the World

General SociologyPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032127082
ISBN13: 9781032127088
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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:

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