Depletion through Social Reproduction and Contingent Coping in the Lived Experience of Parents on Universal Credit in England

IF 1.7 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL ISSUES

Social Politics Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI:10.1093/sp/jxad018

Robyn Fawcett, Emily Gray, Alexander Nunn

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Abstract

We report data from longitudinal qualitative interviews with thirteen people claiming Universal Credit (UC) immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in England. The article utilizes concepts from feminist theory: “Social Reproduction” and “Depletion.” We make several novel contributions, including bringing depletion into conversation with the related concept of “contingent coping.” We argue that the lived experience of UC involves material and emotional depletion, but that UC also helps recipients to “cope” contingently with this depletion. In this sense, depletion through social reproduction is an ongoing and harmful state of being. We show how highly conditional and disciplinary welfare policies both partially mitigate but also accentuate structural pressures associated with an unequal, insecure, and competitive labor market.

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英国普遍信贷父母生活经验中的社会再生产耗竭与偶然应对

我们报告了对13名在英格兰COVID-19大流行之前和期间申请通用信贷(UC)的人进行的纵向定性访谈的数据。文章运用了女性主义理论中的概念:“社会再生产”和“耗竭”。我们做出了一些新颖的贡献，包括将枯竭与相关概念“应急应对”进行对话。我们认为，UC的生活经历涉及物质和情感的消耗，但UC也帮助接受者“应对”这种消耗。从这个意义上说，社会再生产造成的耗竭是一种持续的、有害的存在状态。我们展示了高度有条件和有纪律的福利政策如何在一定程度上减轻但也加剧了与不平等、不安全和竞争的劳动力市场相关的结构性压力。

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4.70

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期刊介绍： Social Politics is the journal for incisive analyses of gender, politics and policy across the globe. It takes on the critical emerging issues of our age: globalization, transnationality and citizenship, migration, diversity and its intersections, the restructuring of capitalisms and states. We engage with feminist theoretical issues and with theories of welfare regimes, "varieties of capitalism," the ideational and cultural turns in social science, governmentality and postcolonialism. We are looking for articles that engage in this exciting mix of debates that will be of interest to our multidisciplinary and international audience.