Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics and Resistance

By: Karen Soldatic and Louise St Guillaume

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Synopsis: This book provides a rich synthesis of research and theory of nascent and emergent critically engaged work examining changing welfare structures, regimes and technologies and the social suffering that is generated in everyday lives. By rigorously examining social security restructuring with the turn to austerity governance and its daily practices of managing, regulating and subordinating individuals, peoples and communities, this collection delineates the machinery of state power and logics designed to manage, contain and control the lives of some of the most poorest and marginalized citizens who are reliant on social welfare income payments. A core strength of the book is first, its unpacking of austerity governance across diverse communities and, second, the elevation of community resistance and mobilization against the very measures of austerity. Combined, the work maps out the logics of state power and everyday practices of embedded contestation and confrontation. Using the case-study of Australia to discuss socio-legal re-categorisations, automation of welfare governance, technologies of policy design and delivery, conditionality and systems of penalisation, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of sociology, critical theory, social policy, social work and disability studies, Indigenous studies and settler colonialism.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 240 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000580822
Related ISBNs:: 9780367675561, 9781003131779, 9780367675554
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/27/22
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Karen Soldatic and Louise St Guillaume
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Karen Soldatic
Edited by:: Louise St Guillaume