Psychology, Punitive Activation and Welfare

Blaming the Unemployed

Rose-Marie Stambe

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Routledge
17 June 2022

Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology

This book explores welfare politics, unemployment, and interventions in relation to the labour market from a critical psychological perspective. Using critical fieldwork and theory, the author explores the administration of the unemployed, and the drive to increase labour market participation through strategies of activation.

There is a strong and coherent conceptual and theoretical framing for this work, with a critical perspective (essentially, question everything) taking centre stage. It will give an overall coherence in addressing the topic. The theoretical framing is cogent and, in combination with the critical perspective, works well for integrating the material and delivering a fresh approach to this topic.

Psychology, Punitive Activation and Welfare will appeal to students engaging with critical psychology, unemployment or policy, by providing a distinct application of theoretical and methodological tools to think differently about the relationship between labour market non/participation, human misery, psychology, and frontline enactment of policy and research.

By: Rose-Marie Stambe
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 195g
ISBN: 9780367632229
ISBN 10: 0367632225
Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 17 June 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction. 2. Putting critique to work. 3. A Critique of methods. 4. Participation, activation and compliance. 5. Affective governing and the psy-complex. 6. Unpacking interviews. 7. Conclusion. List of Figures. Series Preface. Acknowledgements. List of abbreviations.

Rose-Marie Stambe is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her main research interests are in critical qualitative methodology, the welfare-work nexus, social disadvantage and subjectivity.