This article examines how impoverished Anglo-Australians reacted to the interventionist neoliberal welfare policy that attempts to instill values and behavioral style in welfare recipients to create “desirable citizen.” It focuses on the activities of the Anti-Poverty Network South Australia（APNSA）, a grassroots civil group in Adelaide. APNSA has different significance for members and general citizens participating in the activities to provide emotional and practical support to people on low incomes. For members, APNSA helps them restore their confidence and dignity by providing them with knowledge and skills to confront unfair treatment from staff at welfare offices. It also spreads the awareness of resisting in solidarity against the existing welfare system. For general citizens, on the other hand, acquainting them with the experiences of those fallen into poverty may change their prejudice toward people on welfare payment. It also elucidates how under neoliberal policy anyone, including themselves, can be placed in a similar situation, thereby instilling them with empathy toward these people.
雑誌名
人文学研究所報
号
64
ページ
39 - 46
発行年
2020-09-29
ISSN
0287-7082
書誌レコードID
AN00122854
著者版フラグ
publisher
その他の言語のタイトル
'Surveillance' in neoliberal welfare system and response of the white underclass ： a case study of anti-poverty network South Australia
出版者
神奈川大学人文学研究所
The Institute for Humanities Research. Kanagawa University
新自由主義下の福祉制度における「監視」と白人貧困層の対応 －南オーストラリア州反貧困ネットワークの事例から－
03 新自由主義下の福祉制度における「監視」と白人貧困層の対応 －南オーストラリア州反貧困ネットワークの事例から－
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