Bibliograph

The shaming state, how the US treats citizens in need, Sara Salman

Type

Label

The shaming state, how the US treats citizens in need, Sara Salman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The shaming state

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1382233343

Responsibility statement

Sara Salman

Sub title

how the US treats citizens in need

Summary

"The Shaming State is a comparative study of the impact of market fundamentalism on late modern American society. By looking at refugee resettlement and post-disaster relief programs, the book argues that withholding social welfare generates feelings of shame which are transformed into punitive feelings and expressions of hostility against marginalized groups"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The right to care in a shaming state: vulnerability in the United States -- Part I: social rights and shame in resettlement assistance programs -- Iraqi resettled refugees in Michigan: rights and burdens upon arrival -- Becoming good Americans: seeking work in a land without jobs -- Part II: social rights and shame in post-disaster relief programs -- New Yorkers in the path of a hurricane: the duty of care and invisible vulnerabilities -- Rebuilding after the hurricane: preventing fraud, abandoning citizens -- Part III: unraveling rights, intensifying vulnerabilities -- A state between care and shame: the structural undoing of social rights -- Together, alone: fractured selves in late modern America -- A way out of the shaming state: limits and possibilities of care

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