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...Catherine Fennell This essay examines anxieties concerning interpersonal obligations that gathered within and around low-income households of a redeveloping Chicago public housing project in the years following comprehensive public housing and welfare reform. These households navigated competing...

... in a context of little or no access to state health care. Through the lens of HIV management, the article considers what happens when human care and welfare is refracted through the prism of corporate managerialism, shareholder value, and, more immediately, the relationship between workers and capital...

...Andrew M. Bauer; Mona Bhan Ongoing discussions of welfare and human viability that focus on state responsibility to provide care and services rarely consider how new sources of vulnerability are emerging within the context of climate change. Scholars attentive to these processes often use...

...Anne-Maria Makhulu This essay explores the legacy of racially allocated welfare in South Africa, focusing on the history of the migrant labor system. In outlining a relationship between racial capitalism and precarity—the immediate consequence of the denial of welfare—the essay argues...

... health policies, this essay demonstrates a split discourse on welfare—understood as care of the social body—that at once privatizes child care and continues to treat poor, often black and brown, parents as dangerous caregivers. Characterized by vociferous polemics about where, with whom, and for how long...

...Franco Barchiesi In twentieth-century South African history, from the consolidation of a racially hierarchical social order to the country's transition to democracy, ideologies and policies linking work to welfare have defined the precarious predicament of blackness in highly specific ways...

...Anne Allison © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 Japan welfare postnuclear References Abélès Marc . 2010 . The Politics of Survival . Translated by Kleinman Julie . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Allison Anne . 2013 . Precarious Japan . Durham, NC...

...Thomas M. Hughes Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Conservatives and Social Welfare Thomas M. Hughes This paper describes the concept of social welfare in the writings of two conservatives, Russell Kirk and James Burnham. The major works of these writers are used to answer...

...Weldon Welfling International Investment And Domestic Welfare . Buchanan Norman S. . New York : Henry Holt & Co. , 1945 . Pp. 239 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 587 it is probably the first book in the field of politics...

...James E. O’Neill Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 The Victorian Background to the British Welfare State James E. O Neill For good or ill the British welfare state has arrived. Indeed, it is now approaching its twentieth anniversary, and, though the cries of alarm so noticeable...

...Sara Edenheim To refer to Sweden as a good example of care and welfare reforms has been common among many US scholars all through the 1990s until today. In this article, the author tries to understand why the Swedish pandemic strategy during 2020–21 was met with surprise and confusion, most visible...

... important institution for rearing children. We can also apply this perspective to the welfare state and look at how the family and the state interact to ensure a particular type of reproduction. Exploring the welfare state as one way of sustaining a capitalist economy, this essay seeks to unpack some...

...Melinda Cooper The essay identifies workfare as the exemplary form of contingent labor practice inasmuch as it blurs the boundaries between the free and unfree labor contract, welfare and work, flexibility and compulsion. However, analyses of workfare have too often ignored the centrality of sexual...

...Elliot C. Mason In this introduction to the dossier, Elliot C. Mason gives an overview of the rise and fall of the welfare state in Sweden throughout the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries, from the initial protests and mass demands that led to reforms and a general program of state care...

... enrichment in the context of a shrinking welfare state and increasing individualization of society, while also functioning as a social space where individual investors can regroup in an ersatz of community belonging. Focusing on the disaggregated subjectivities left behind by the state-driven dismantling...

...Silvia Federici The article examines the development of the new “debt economy,” especially the expansion of individual debt, in its relation to the main props of the neoliberal agenda: the precarization of work, the dismantling of the “welfare state,” and the increasing financialization...

..., a dynamic of market creation through legislative changes (especially in the domain of land and real estate markets), and a widespread withdrawal of labor and welfare rights. The results point toward an expansion of the many (territorial, social, economic) fronts on which the financialization of society...

...Mitchell Dean This paper argues against a recent authoritarian turn of neoliberalism, pointing to its advocacy of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s and the use of illiberal practices for certain populations in “welfare reform” from the 1990s. Instead, it characterizes today’s neoliberalism...

...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay examines two modes, qualities, and dynamics of lethality in contemporary late liberal societies: the state of killing and letting die. Using contemporary debates in Australia over indigenous health and welfare and new federal security laws, the essay explores...

... in the PEP Research Lab. They trade their experiences of life on the inside, debunking a variety of public myths about the welfare and treatment of those caught within the prison system. Discussing their postcarceral roles as students and researchers, they analyze the differences between the two, drawing...