Personalizing the state the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain

Koch, Insa Lee

Personalizing the state the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain - London Oxford University Press 2019 - 1 online resource. - Clarendon studies in criminology Oxford scholarship online . - Clarendon studies in criminology. Oxford scholarship online. .

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Starting with penal populism, this text examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience their daily engagements with the state.

Specialized.

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Marginality, Social--Great Britain.


Great Britain--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Economic conditions.
Great Britain--Politics and government.

HN400.M26

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