Personalizing the state : the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain / Insa Lee Koch.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191845437
- 305.560941 23
- HN400.M26
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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