The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat
Abstract In this paper, we use a powerful empirical resource to address what the popular politics of disadvantage might entail in contemporary Britain. We take advantage of the unusually rich qualitative data from the British National Child Development Study, a cohort of Britons born in 1 week in 19...
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doaj-30bb7b8c24344ad6a58c9fc3013455a82020-12-27T12:04:18ZengSpringerOpenThe Journal of Chinese Sociology2198-26352020-12-017112710.1186/s40711-020-00134-7The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariatMike Savage0Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt1London School of Economics and Political ScienceDepartment of Sociology, University of YorkAbstract In this paper, we use a powerful empirical resource to address what the popular politics of disadvantage might entail in contemporary Britain. We take advantage of the unusually rich qualitative data from the British National Child Development Study, a cohort of Britons born in 1 week in 1958, to focus specifically on the accounts of those who are particularly disadvantaged. By concentrating on these a small number of qualitative accounts, which have been rigorously selected from the wider nationally representative sample on the basis of their relatively small amounts of economic and cultural capital, we will explore in detail the accounts and identities of these disadvantaged Britons with a view to explicating their political frameworks, their social identities and more broadly their orientations towards mobilisation.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-020-00134-7ClassPolitics of disadvantageBritain |
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The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat |
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The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat |
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The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat |
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The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat |
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The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat |
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politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the british precariat |
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Abstract In this paper, we use a powerful empirical resource to address what the popular politics of disadvantage might entail in contemporary Britain. We take advantage of the unusually rich qualitative data from the British National Child Development Study, a cohort of Britons born in 1 week in 1958, to focus specifically on the accounts of those who are particularly disadvantaged. By concentrating on these a small number of qualitative accounts, which have been rigorously selected from the wider nationally representative sample on the basis of their relatively small amounts of economic and cultural capital, we will explore in detail the accounts and identities of these disadvantaged Britons with a view to explicating their political frameworks, their social identities and more broadly their orientations towards mobilisation. |
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Class Politics of disadvantage Britain |
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