Edmiston, D orcid.org/0000-0001-8715-654X and Humpage, L (2018) Resistance or resignation to welfare reform? The activist politics for and against social citizenship. Policy & Politics, 46 (3). pp. 467-484. ISSN 0305-5736
Abstract
Since 2008, mature welfare states have, to varying degrees, pursued a strategy of welfare reform that has reconfigured the dominant praxis of social citizenship. Drawing on qualitative data from two studies, this paper explores what bearing this has had on the political subjectivity of welfare claimants in the New Zealand context. The findings suggest welfare claimants engage in diverse political struggles for and against social citizenship to resist, reconfigure and resign themselves to the prevailing socio-political settlement. In light of this, conclusions are drawn about the insurgent politics of low-income social security claimants as political agents in the citizenship-making process.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Policy Press 2016. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Policy & Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Edmiston, D and Humpage, L (2016) Resistance or resignation to welfare reform? The activist politics for and against social citizenship, Policy & Politics, ISSN 0305-5736, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14802575969590. |
Keywords: | acts of citizenship; conditionality; social policy; welfare politics |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2017 10:10 |
Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2018 15:23 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Policy Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1332/030557316X14802575969590 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115064 |