Politics of Waiting - Workfare, Post-Soviet Austerity and the Ethics of Freedom

This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Waiting as an organising logic
2 Temporalities of austerity
3 The anxious subject
4 The will to live
5 Spaces of the expelled
Epilogue: Waiting for freedom
References
Index

About the author

Liene Ozolina is Course Tutor in Political Sociology at the London School of Economics

Summary

This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Ozoli&, Liene Ozoli¿a, Liene Ozolina, Liene Ozolina-Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781526126252
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2625-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Political and Administrative Ethnography; Political Ethnography; Political and Administrative E
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Comparative Politics, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour