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The Shaming State - by Sara Salman (Paperback)
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- A riveting indictment of a government that fails to help citizens in need of aid, protection, andhumanity The Shaming State argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinquished its duties of care toward its citizens.
- About the Author: Sara Salman is Lecturer in Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
- 248 Pages
- Political Science, Political Ideologies
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"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"--Book Synopsis
A riveting indictment of a government that fails to help citizens in need of aid, protection, and
humanity
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"The Shaming State offers a brilliant ethnographic analysis of how the supposedly compassionate welfare state produced just the opposite of its explicitly stated intentions. Focusing on problems faced by immigrants in Michigan and by people traumatized by Hurricane Sandy in New York City, Sara Salman shows similarities and differences in the two U.S. cases while calling for a genuinely more caring approach to public policies and governmental assistance. Scholars, policymakers, and activists will learn much from this detailed, insightful, and beautifully written study."-- "Lynn S. Chancer, author of After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution"
"In moments of acute need and social vulnerability arising from displacement and persecution, how does the state respond in aid to groups in need? Salman examines with rigor, humanity, and beautiful prose how two seemingly dissimilar groups experience cultural notions of worthiness, precarity, suspicion, and responsibility. As the book centers the psychology of shame and moral worth, readers learn how government bureaucracies communicate deservingness to groups and in so doing the limits of a caring state and the American Dream."-- "Lauren Duquette-Rury, author of Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico"
"This is an intriguing, timely, and insightful book that examines how care is administered and vulnerability is mitigated in the US. Or not administered or mitigated because of longstanding hostility to such assistance from whichever political party is in office. Instead, these aspects of American society have made it a shaming state."-- "John Pratt, author of Law, Insecurity and Risk Control: Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt"
About the Author
Sara Salman is Lecturer in Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.Additional product information and recommendations
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