Boland, Tom and Doyle, Kenny and Griffin, Ray (2022) Passing Stigma : Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality. Social Policy and Society. ISSN 1474-7464 (In Press)
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Stigma is not the automatic outcome of power differentials, but a distinctive moral inscription generated through cultural evaluations and governmental processes. Research on welfare recipients records how the unemployed displace stigma onto other welfare recipients, positioning other(ed) claimants as the 'real unemployed' or 'scroungers'. Theoretically we adapt Butler's analysis of the psychic processes whereby subjects are formed by disavowal of discourses which abjectify them. Arguably, this is functional for the governmentalising processes of generating jobseeking, with a latent function of reinforcing activation policies. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we trace how Irish individuals negotiate the stigma attributed to or foisted upon Welfare claimants, in welfare offices and informal social interactions and in job interviews - how they attempt to 'pass' as good JobSeekers and pass stigma on to others. Curiously, many welfare claimants suggest governmental interventions for distinguishing and discriminating between the deserving and undeserving adopting the stigmatising perspective.
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 |
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| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2022 23:13 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2023 19:20 |
| URI: | http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/4717 |
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