Ethnographies of Deservingness : : Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality / / ed. by Andreas Streinzer, Jelena Tošić.

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting d...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:EASA Series ; 45
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Physical Description:1 online resource (436 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction Deservingness Reassessing the Moral Dimensions of Inequality --
Part I Deservingness: Genealogies, Struggles and Ideologies --
1 Caring for the Old and Letting Them Die A Political Economy of Human Worth --
2 Must the Tired and Poor ‘Stand on Their Own Two Feet’? Tools for Analysing How Migrants’ Deservingness Is Reckoned --
3 ‘Deserving Classes without Class’ Explaining the Neonationalist Ascendancy --
4 Comparing Deservingness A Reflexive Approach to Solidarity and Cruelty --
Part II Categories, Policies and Negotiations of Deservingness --
5 Hartz IV Affective and Sensual Registers of Moral Inferiority --
6 Unemployment, Deservingness and Ideological Apparatuses A Case Study from Turin, Italy --
7 The Politics of Austerity Welfare Charity, Discourses of Deservingness and Human Needs in a Portuguese Church Parish --
8 ‘Here, Morality Is a Sense of Entitlement’ Citizenship, Deservingness and Inequality in Suburban Atlanta --
Part III The (Un)Deserving Migrant/Refugee --
9 Ambivalences of (Un)Deservingness Tracing Vulnerability in the EU Border Regime --
10 The Politics of Deservingness among Resettled Bhutanese Refugees --
11 Suffering and Vulnerability Reconfi gured Refugee Images of Hungarian Migrants Working in German Refugee Accommodation Institutions --
Part IV Debt Relations: The State, Market Actors and Debtors --
12 Do Mortgagors in Hardship Deserve Debt Relief? Legitimizing and Challenging Inequality during the Spanish Home Repossession Crisis --
13 Households on Trial Over-indebtedness, the State and Moral Struggles in Greece --
14 Victims, Patriots and the Middle Class The (Un)Deservingness of Debtors in Post-Credit Boom Croatia --
Afterword Differentiating Deservingness --
Index
Summary:Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology. This edited collection provides a novel and systematic conceptualization of Deservingness and shows how it can serve as a prime and integrative conceptual prism to ethnographically explore transforming welfare states, regimes of migration, as well as capitalist social reproduction and relations at large.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781800736009
9783110997668
DOI:10.1515/9781800736009
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Andreas Streinzer, Jelena Tošić.