Politics of Waiting
Workfare, Post-Soviet Austerity and the Ethics of Freedom
Seiten
2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2625-2 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2625-2 (ISBN)
This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control. -- .
This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, this book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logics of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia, serving as a vantage point from which to observe how welfare programmes use acceleration and waiting as forms of control as well as to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book is therefore a timely sociological critique of the forms of statecraft that have emerged in the aftermath of neoliberalism.
The key audiences for this book are students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, and social and political theory, as well as policymakers and activists with an interest in welfare reforms and comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare designs. -- .
This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, this book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logics of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia, serving as a vantage point from which to observe how welfare programmes use acceleration and waiting as forms of control as well as to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book is therefore a timely sociological critique of the forms of statecraft that have emerged in the aftermath of neoliberalism.
The key audiences for this book are students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, and social and political theory, as well as policymakers and activists with an interest in welfare reforms and comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare designs. -- .
Liene Ozolina is Course Tutor in Political Sociology at the London School of Economics -- .
Introduction
1 Waiting as an organising logic
2 Temporalities of austerity
3 The anxious subject
4 The will to live
5 Spaces of the expelled
Epilogue: Waiting for freedom
References
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.07.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Political Ethnography |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 408 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-2625-7 / 1526126257 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-2625-2 / 9781526126252 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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