The Unfreedom of Being Other: Canadian Lone Mothers’ Experiences of Poverty and ‘Life on the Cheque’  

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Power, Elaine M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociology vol. 39 no. 04 (Oct. 2005), page 643–660.
Topik: consumer society; governmentality; lone mothers; neo-liberalism; welfare
Fulltext: 643.pdf (406.57KB)

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This article theorizes the experiences of lone mothers living on welfare in contemporary consumer society using a governmentality framework, with particular attention to liberalism’s practices of unfreedom. Analysis suggests two main ways in which lone mothers were constructed and disciplined as Other: as ‘welfare bums’ who were not in the labour market; and as ‘flawed consumers’ without the financial resources to participate in consumer society. This type of study, with its attention to the ‘messy actualities’ of how subjects take up neo-liberal discourse, offers possibilities for the re-politicization of the Foucauldian-inspired governmentality literature by accounting for the costs of neo-liberal forms of rule, and providing insight into how it might be contested.

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