Ethnographies of Deservingness

Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

Jelena Tošić, Andreas Streinzer (Herausgeber)

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436 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-754-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Deservingness: Reassessing the Moral Dimensions of Inequality

Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tošić

Part I: Deservingness – Genealogies, Struggles and Ideologies

Chapter 1. Caring for the Old and Letting Them Die: A Political Economy of Human Worth

Susana Narotzky

Chapter 2. Must the Tired and Poor ´Stand on Their Own Two Feet`? Tools for Analyzing How Migrants’ Deservingness is Reckoned

Sarah S. Willen and Jennifer Cook

Chapter 3. Deserving Classes without Class: Explaining the Neo-Nationalist Ascendency

Don Kalb

Chapter 4. A Methodological, Reflexive and Comparative Approach to Deservingness

Erik Bähre

Part II: Categories, Policies and Negotiations of Deservingness

Chapter 5. Hartz IV. Affective and Sensual Registers of Moral Inferiority

Stefan Wellgraf

Chapter 6. Unemployment, Deservingness and Ideological Apparatuses: A Case Study from Turin, Italy

Carlo Capello

Chapter 7. The Politics of Austerity Welfare: Charity, Discourses of Deservingness and Human Needs in a Portuguese Church Parish

Patricia Matos

Chapter 8. ‘Here, Morality is a Sense of Entitlement’: Citizenship, Deservingness, and Inequality in Suburban America

Elisa Lanari

Part III: The (Un)Deserving Migrant/Refugee

Chapter 9. Ambivalences of (Un)Deservingness: Tracing Vulnerability in the EU Border Regime

Sabine Strasser

Chapter 10. The Politics of Deservingness among Resettled Bhutanese Refugees

Nicole Hoellerer

Chapter 11. Suffering and Vulnerability Reconfigured. Refugee Images of Hungarian Migrants Working in Refugee Accommodation Institutions in Germany

Ildikó Zakariás and Margit Feischmidt

Part IV: Debt Relations – State, Market Actors and Debtors

Chapter 12. Do Mortgagors in Hardship Deserve Debt Relief? Legitimizing and Challenging Inequality during the Spanish Home Repossessions Crisis

Irene Sabaté

Chapter 13. Households on Trial: Over-Indebtedness, State and Moral Struggles in Greece

Theodora Vetta

Chapter 14. Victims, Patriots and Middle Class: The (Un)Deservingness of Debtors in Post–Credit Boom Croatia

Marek Mikuš

Afterword: Differentiating Deservingness

James G. Carrier

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2025
Reihe/Serie	EASA Series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-80539-754-0 / 1805397540
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-754-0 / 9781805397540
Zustand	Neuware