Personalizing the state : the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain /
Koch, Insa Lee,
Personalizing the state : the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain / Insa Lee Koch. - First edition. - 1 online resource. - Clarendon studies in criminology Oxford scholarship online . - Clarendon studies in criminology. Oxford scholarship online. .
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.
Specialized.
9780191845437 No price
Marginality, Social--Great Britain.
Society.
Society & culture: general.
Great Britain--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Economic conditions.
Great Britain--Politics and government.
HN400.M26
305.560941
Personalizing the state : the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain / Insa Lee Koch. - First edition. - 1 online resource. - Clarendon studies in criminology Oxford scholarship online . - Clarendon studies in criminology. Oxford scholarship online. .
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.
Specialized.
9780191845437 No price
Marginality, Social--Great Britain.
Society.
Society & culture: general.
Great Britain--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Economic conditions.
Great Britain--Politics and government.
HN400.M26
305.560941