Immoral and un-Australian: the discursive exclusion of welfare recipients

Gunders, Lisa

doi:10.1080/17405904.2011.632136

Cited by 5 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 5 publications

(3 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The NGO had rallied behind the messaging, branding T-shirts with the slogan. The slogan was resonant in a public arena where Australianness was often equated with being a good person, with immoral behavior framed as 'un-Australian' (Gunders 2012). The use of the word 'real' was a way of recapturing the moral essence of Australianness, associating it with a hospitable perspective.…”

Section: Affective Slippagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making the State Blush

Altman

2020

Social Analysis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Australian state’s hostile deterrence policy toward people arriving by boat who seek asylum evokes polarized public sentiments. This article, which ethnographically follows a humanitarian NGO campaign in the lead-up to the 2016 Australian election, examines how citizens who opposed deterrence sought to affectively and morally influence the state and the public. Building on anthropological theories of the state and feminist scholarship on the sociality of emotion, I develop the notion of ‘affective relations’. Distinguishing from nationalist, humanitarian, and activist relations that set up divisive dynamics, campaigners invoked ‘humanizing’ to create affective relations based on common values, personalization, and responsiveness. Although the desired election results were not achieved, the focus on humanization represented a long-term shift to an inclusive alternative politics based on the transformation of power relations.

show abstract

Section: Affective Slippagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making the State Blush

Altman

2020

Social Analysis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In critical discourse analysis (CDA), there seem to be two lines of inquiry: one related to the discourse of welfare in Great Britain (Fairclough, 2000a, 2000b; Van Leeuwen, 1999; Wiggan, 2012), Australia (Gunders, 2012; Marston, 2008) and the USA (Abbie Erler, 2012; Cassiman, 2008; Goede, 1996); and the second related to the discursive construction of exclusion in Latin America (Lacerda, 2015; Taylor, 2009). Scholarly attention is given to the mediated representations of the poor, as well as to different texts produced by national governments (Gunders, 2012; Pantazis, 2016). In both fields, the negative images of the poor as ‘welfare queens and deadbeat dads’ (Cassiman, 2008: 1690) are usually built around work and culture, with a prevailing argument that unwillingness, as opposed to inability, to find a job makes the poor a burden on society (Fairclough, 2000a; Van Leeuwen, 1999).…”

Section: Poverty In Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Discourses of poverty across genres: Competing representations of the poor in the transitional context of Serbia

Kleut

Drašković

2020

Discourse & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article examines representations of the poor across three genres – the government’s Bulletin on Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction, online news and online user comments – during the period that immediately followed the expiration of the first Serbian Poverty Reduction Strategy (2010–2012). The results show differences in the actors’ representation, and in attribution of causal and treatment responsibility. The Bulletin is characterised by the discourse of social inclusion, activation and responsibilisation of the poor. This discourse does not reach the news, which portrays the poor as passive beneficiaries of the government actions, as individuals in extreme poverty, and as the agentic working poor protesting for wages. In the online user comments, poverty is articulated as the personal experience of the commenters. The news discourse of state responsibility is echoed in the comments sections and further recontextualised into the discourse of political responsibility.

show abstract

“…Critical Discourse Studies has been highly interested in the ideological uses of nationalism, for example to impose, establish or justify norms, meanings and decisions of political elites (see for example Amaya, 2007;Pavković, 2017); to cause benefits for some groups and to downgrade or marginalize others (for example Beldarrain-Durandegui, 2012;Gunders, 2012) including migrants (Krzyzanowski & Wodak, 2009) or as a reason for going to participate in wars which based entirely around economic interests (Graham, Keenan, & Dowd, 2004). There has also been an interest in more subtle and everyday forms of banal nationalism (Billig, 1995).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recontextualizing Swedish nationalism for commercial purposes: a multimodal analysis of a milk marketing event

Andersson

2019

Critical Discourse Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper, I carry out an analysis of an event in Sweden called 'the spring turnout'. It is a traditional event where cows are allowed out into the fields after the winter. I show how it has been colonized by Arla Foods, the diary company which controls part of the milk production in Sweden and in many other countries. Of interest in this analysis is how Arla infuses the event, and its own marketing, with discourses about nature that are specifically Swedish and can be traced to the nation building of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, used systematically as part of the social democratic project for equality and progress through a strong welfare system. The paper examines how Arla recontextualizes these discourses for commercial purposes. I show how such recontextualized discourses carry reassurances to Swedish people that this project is still intact despite huge social political changes in Swede over the past decades embracing neoliberalism, global capitalism and becoming one of the fastest deregulating countries in the world.

show abstract

Immoral and un-Australian: the discursive exclusion of welfare recipients

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

Making the State Blush

Making the State Blush

Discourses of poverty across genres: Competing representations of the poor in the transitional context of Serbia

Recontextualizing Swedish nationalism for commercial purposes: a multimodal analysis of a milk marketing event

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About