What Can Welfare Stigma Do?
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Joe Whelan, Robert Bolton, Fiona Dukelow, 'What Can Welfare Stigma Do?', 2022, Social Policy and Society;Download Item:
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In this ‘state of the art’ review, we draw on the Irish and UK context to ask ‘what can
welfare stigma do?’ Our question provokes thinking about welfare stigma not as an
inevitable ‘cost’ of the structure of welfare provision, but as something that does sociopolitical work and which may be deliberately mobilised to do so. This, we argue, is a
particularly pertinent question to ask in the Irish and UK contexts, bound together by some
shared liberal welfare regime characteristics that are particularly associated with welfare
stigma and by the effects of a period of austerity capitalism that continues to re-shape the
meaning and experience of welfare. Yet, going beyond welfare stigma as inherently
negative, we highlight a limited literature on resistance that suggests the potentialities of
welfare stigma in the service of positive social change toward a new welfare imaginary.
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Welfare stigma, resistance, Ireland, UK, Austerity capitalism.Subject (TCD):
Inclusive Society , Politics of the welfare state , SOCIAL POLICY , STIGMA , Social Welfare , Social policy analysis , Welfare StateDOI:
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