We live in a historic period of heightened and intersecting uncertainties. This article draws
on Bauman's metaphor of 'liquid modernity'to discuss the precariousness of family lives and …

This article considers a genealogy of the governing by data of families in poverty; a case
study of the codification of disadvantaged families and problematisation of their difficulties …

The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in 2011 has thrown into sharp relief how
governments develop policies and practices to intervene in the lives of so‐called 'troubled …

Families in the UK have played a key role within the 'third way'policy regimes of the past two
decades, promising to act as arenas of citizenship between the individual and the market …

Current political rhetoric and some media commentaries suggest there is a yawning gap of
understanding between policymakers and the reality of families living in poverty in 21st …

This article takes an ecological approach to examine the legacies of austerity for local
authority welfare systems in England and the implications for families seeking to use these …

In this paper, I argue that we look through the lens of family care to show how economic
scarcity translates into an actual experience of everyday life. Referring to analyses from …

If you were to open and read any newspaper or switch on and watch television news or read-
watch online news in any day at any given time in any given week there would be a story …

New Zealand is in the midst of a campaign to cut welfare spending, aligned to the
'austerity'discourse preoccupying many countries. Over the period 2011–14, two significant …

Despite 'troubled lives' increasingly coming under the gaze of (powerful) others, our
understanding of the issues at hand seems somewhat detached from the experiences of …