Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Deservingness in Welfare Policy and Practice: Discursive and Rhetorical Approaches

by Laura Tarkiainen
Save 35% Save 35%
Current price ₹14,551.00
Original price ₹22,385.00
Original price ₹22,385.00
Original price ₹22,385.00
(-35%)
₹14,551.00
Current price ₹14,551.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 12-14 Days

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781032127002
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 152
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 359 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Human Services, and Social Work

This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements.

Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations are generated in the twenty-first century by focusing on the analysis of discourse and rhetoric of policymakers, reality TV participants, frontline workers and unemployed individuals, it shows that different actors actively participate in constructing representations of deservingness through which variety of political, practical and social implications and objectives are achieved and performed. The book addresses key themes such as:

- What kinds of rhetorical and discursive tactics can be associated with un/deservingness?

- How deservingness is accomplished as a speech act?

- How different actors such as policymakers, reality TV programme participants, frontline workers and individual citizens participate in constructing un/deservingness?

- What kind of practical implications and consequences deservingness representations have for policy making, frontline work and research

This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy, social work, sociology, social psychology, political science and media studies.

Laura Tarkiainen (DSocSc) is a university lecturer and postdoctoral social work researcher at Tampere University. Laura's research interests concern discourses on prolonged unemployment, conditionalities, poverty and deservingness.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us