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Full Title

Politics of waiting Workfare, post-Soviet austerity and the ethics of freedom 1st Edition

Author(s)

Liene Ozolina

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781526126276, 9781526126252, 9781526126269

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting. While the global political economy is usually imagined through metaphors of acceleration and speed, this book reveals waiting as the shadow temporality of the contemporary logics of governance. The ethnographic site for this analysis is a state-run unemployment office in Latvia, serving as a vantage point from which to observe how welfare programmes use acceleration and waiting as forms of control as well as to compare Western and post-Soviet welfare policy designs. The book is therefore a timely sociological critique of the forms of statecraft that have emerged in the aftermath of neoliberalism. The key audiences for this book are students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, and social and political theory, as well as policymakers and activists with an interest in welfare reforms and comparisons between Western and post-Soviet welfare designs.