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Personalising the state : the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare at the UK's margins /

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 thei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koch, Insa Lee (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Clarendon studies in criminology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Series; Personalizing the State; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction: Questioning the Punitive Paradox; Prologue; Liberal Democracy's Illiberal Turn; Explaining the Punitive Turn; Ethnographic and Historical Revisions; Personalizing the State; Doing Fieldwork in a Marginalized Place; The Ethics of Fieldwork; Chapter Outline; 1. A Political History of Council Estates: Council Estates as State-​Building Projects; The Punitive Turn Revisited; The Citizen-​Worker and Post-​War Paternalism; The Citizen-​Consumer and the 'Iron Law of Liberalism'
  • The Vulnerable Citizen and the 'Law-​and-​Order-​State'Conclusion; 2. The Good Person and the Bad Citizen: History, Class, and Sociality; History, Class, and Alternative Personhood Values; A Fragile Moral Union Between Citizens and the State; A Moral Union Under Attack; Alternative Processes of Value Accrual; Conclusion; 3. Precarious Homes: Encounters with the Benefit System; Women, the Benefit System, and the Citizen-​Consumer Revisited; Precarious Homes; 'The State has Replaced the Man'; Personalizing the Benefit System; Conclusion
  • 4. Troubled Neighbourhoods: Encounters with Housing AuthoritiesMaterial Homes, Nuisance Disputes, and the Vulnerable Citizen; Troubled Neighbourhoods; 'They Become Part of the Problem'; Personalizing 'Anti-​Social Behaviour'; Conclusion; 5. Dangerous Streets: Encounters with the Police; Policing, Crime, and Security as a Collective Public Good; 'You Do or Get Done'; 'The Police are the Biggest Gang of All'; Personalizing 'Law and Order'; Conclusion; 6 Political Brokers: Active Citizenship; Active Citizenship, the Third Way, and Alternative Politics
  • Responsibilization and Participatory GovernanceCommunity Champions as Political Brokers; Personalizing Politics; Conclusion; 7. Democracy as Punishment: Brexit and Austerity Politics; Brexit, Popular Authoritarianism, and the Crisis of Democracy; Austerity Politics; State Failure; Democracy in Crisis; Conclusion; Conclusion: A Different Kind of Paradox; Citizenship as Punishment: Moving Beyond the Criminal Law; On Popular Punitivism and State Authority: Bringing Down the Leviathan; From 'Law and Order' to Post-​Democracy? Reconnecting Moral and Political Statecraft; Epilogue; References