Anna Tarrant's revealing research explores the dynamics of men's caring responsibilities in
low-income families' lives. The book draws on pioneering multigenerational research to …

This article focuses on how middle-class women identify with 'neoliberal feminism'within the
context of UK austerity by drawing on interviews with 17 women in Leeds, London and …

This paper is about shame, its geographies, and its role in the government of conduct in
austerity Britain. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data from a Trussell Trust foodbank …

Resilience is a key theme in contemporary post-crisis capitalism, prominent across
government policy, popular discourses, business and management thinking and academia …

Hope is not singular or fixed; instead hopes take multiple forms that constitute precarity.
Drawing on interviews with white women 'on benefits' in the North East of England, in a …

Framed by a literature on media coverage of welfare,“poverty porn” and “poverty
propaganda,” and its emphasis on political messaging and ideology, this article explores …

Lone mothers are a diverse group but it has been argued in the previous research that they
tend to be homogenised. This article explores representations of single mothers in Swedish …

Representations of place and space in Factual Welfare Television (FWT) are under-
researched, contributing to neglect of spatial stigma in austerity culture. In this article, we …

This chapter explores how the process of abjection is manifest in televisual representations
of a contemporary grotesque figure, the 'benefits scrounger'; and consequently, how these …

In modern liberal society, a person is considered a 'sacred'entity and any violation of their
dignity should produce embarrassment not only on the side of the ashamed individual but in …