Insa Lee Koch

Personalizing the State

An Anthropology of Law, Politics, and Welfare in Austerity Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Starting with penal populism, this book 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198807513
• ISBN-10: 0198807511
• Artikelnr.: 54541736

Autorenporträt

Insa Lee Koch is Assistant Professor in Law at the London School of Economics and Director of the Anthropology and Law Programme. She has published on politics, austerity, social housing, the welfare state and criminal justice reforms. Her research combines an interest in political economy and anthropology with criminology, law and social theory.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Questioning the Punitive Paradox
* 1: A Political History of Council Estates / Council Estates as
State-Building Projects
* 2: The Good Person and the Bad Citizen / History, Class, and
Sociality
* 3: Precarious Homes / Encounters with the Benefit System
* 4: Troubled Neighbourhoods / Encounters with Housing Authorities
* 5: Dangerous Streets / Encounters with the Police
* 6: Political Brokers / Active Citizenship
* 7: Democracy as Punishment /On Brexit and Austerity Politics
* Conclusion: A Different Kind of Paradox