Overview
- Traces the production of narratives across the Conservative legislative and policy agenda
- Presents an intersectional analysis focusing on policy framing of family, welfare, equality, localism, marriage, migration integration
- Contends that these policy narratives expose a shift in the discursive ground upon which issues of social difference and inequality have been debated
- Exposes the broader shifts that have transformed the terms in which difference and inequality are debated in contemporary politics
Part of the book series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times (THINKGEN)
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Table of contents(8 chapters)
Keywords
- austerity policy
- equality policy
- neo-liberalism
- welfare reform
- the Big Society
- political grammar
- Social Justice
- social model of disability
- uk coalition government 2010
- Theresa May
- David Cameron
- Iain Duncan Smith
- migrant family
- family policy
- Integration Policy
- Localism
- policy framing
- British Politics
- discourse analysis
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Reviews
“Applying techniques of narrative analysis to policy documents and the legislative agenda of the Conservative-led Coalition government, this innovative text provides an intricate, penetrating and incisive investigation into the ways in which political discourse sets the terms for broader socio-political, economic and cultural debates about difference and (in)equality. Critical analysis at its best.” (Avtar Brah, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom
Irene Gedalof
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narratives of Difference in an Age of Austerity
Authors: Irene Gedalof
Series Title: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40065-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40064-2Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68010-8Published: 27 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40065-9Published: 19 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-4361
Series E-ISSN: 2947-437X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 230
Topics: Social Policy, Gender Studies, British Politics, Discourse Analysis, Public Policy, Migration