Personalizing the state : the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain / Insa Lee Koch.
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology: ; Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191845437Subject(s): Marginality, Social -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Social conditions | Great Britain -- Economic conditions | Great Britain -- Politics and government | Society | Society & culture: generalAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198807513DDC classification: 305.560941 LOC classification: HN400.M26Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.
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