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This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements.

Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations are generated in the twenty-first century by focusing on the analysis of discourse and rhetoric of policymakers, reality TV participants, frontline workers and unemployed individuals, it shows that different actors actively participate in constructing representations of deservingness through which variety of political, practical and social implications and objectives are achieved and performed. The book addresses key themes such as:

â What kinds of rhetorical and discursive tactics can be associated with un/deservingness?

â How deservingness is accomplished as a speech act?

â How different actors such as policymakers, reality TV programme participants, frontline wo

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 5/27/2024
      ISBN13: 9781032127088, 978-1032127088
      ISBN10: 1032127082
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book discusses and illustrates how deservingness can be approached as a discursively and rhetorically accomplished phenomenon having varied empirical consequences with regard to welfare, poverty, class and care arrangements.

      Providing a thorough analysis of how deservingness representations are generated in the twenty-first century by focusing on the analysis of discourse and rhetoric of policymakers, reality TV participants, frontline workers and unemployed individuals, it shows that different actors actively participate in constructing representations of deservingness through which variety of political, practical and social implications and objectives are achieved and performed. The book addresses key themes such as:

      â What kinds of rhetorical and discursive tactics can be associated with un/deservingness?

      â How deservingness is accomplished as a speech act?

      â How different actors such as policymakers, reality TV programme participants, frontline wo

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