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Ethnographies of Deservingness

Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

Jelena Tošić Andreas Streinzer James G. Carrier

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English
Berghahn Books
12 August 2022
Series: EASA Series
Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology. This edited collection provides a novel and systematic conceptualization of Deservingness and shows how it can serve as a prime and integrative conceptual prism to ethnographically explore transforming welfare states, regimes of migration, as well as capitalist social reproduction and relations at large.
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Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   45
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9781800735996
ISBN 10:   1800735995
Series:   EASA Series
Pages:   436
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jelena Tošić is Assistant Professor of Transcultural Studies at the University of St. Gallen and lecturer at the University of Vienna. Her current writings focus on borderlands in Southeast Europe, forced migration, citizenship and moralisations of inequality.

Reviews for Ethnographies of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

“This is an excellent collection that has a coherence that is rare in edited volumes. It makes a major contribution to social scientific understandings of inequality through its focus on categorisations of ‘deservingness’. In what I think is a brilliant move, it combines conceptual and historical analysis with a focus on three themes that are rarely brought together in a single volume, namely: social welfare, migration and personal/household debt.” • Paul Stubbs, Former Co-President of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy of the American Anthropological Association “The book addresses the concept of deservingness from different points of view. The four main parts of the book are rich in ethnography, have a strong theoretical background and offer to the reader a panoramic view that takes into consideration the (un)deservingness as a processual and relational notion rather than a condition.” • Georgeta Stoica, Université de La Réunion


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