Neoliberal Governance and Faith-Based Initiatives: Agentive Cracks in the Logic Informing Homeless Sheltering in South Carolina's Capital

Kingsolver, Ann E.

doi:10.1080/08935696.2012.657434

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“…Brown (2009) and Kingsolver (2012), for example, offer empowering accounts of the mutability and fissures that make neoliberal policy contestable.…”

Section: Emergent Market Relationsmentioning

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The Work of Social Work: NGOs and the Fetishization of Work in Bodhgaya, India

Rodriguez¹

2016

Rethinking Marxism

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“…Brown (2009) and Kingsolver (2012), for example, offer empowering accounts of the mutability and fissures that make neoliberal policy contestable.…”

Section: Emergent Market Relationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Work of Social Work: NGOs and the Fetishization of Work in Bodhgaya, India

Rodriguez¹

2016

Rethinking Marxism

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“…In that sense, the lessons described above appear to reveal a puzzling rift between the dominant logic of welfare reform (personal responsibility) and its reconfigured landscape of actors, including faith-based organizations that call for seeking – and depending upon – faith-based help. Drawing upon an in-depth ethnographic study of a prominent faith-based job-readiness program called Jobs for Life (JFL), we explore the contradictions of ‘evangelizing employability’: the ‘cracks in the logic’ (Kingsolver, 2012) between the program's secular-neoliberal and faith-based aims. On the one hand, JFL targets joblessness, teaching personal responsibility in an effort to prepare participants for the low-wage labor market.…”

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Jobless and Godless: Religious neoliberalism and the project of evangelizing employability in the US The authors contributed equally to the research for and writing of this article.

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2017

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In the wake of welfare reform, there has been growing scholarly attention to ‘religious neoliberalism’ and, specifically, to the practices and politics of faith-based organizations in neoliberalized landscapes of social service provision. While much of this scholarship has suggested a seamless ‘fusion’ between conservative evangelicalism and neoliberal ideology, ethnographic research has tended to reveal the far more complicated, and contradictory, reality of evangelical social projects as they play out on the ground. Presenting the first in-depth ethnography of a faith-based job-readiness program, this article examines the contradictory logics operative within the project of what we call ‘evangelizing employability.’ Targeting joblessness, the program urges entrepreneurial independence. Targeting godlessness, the program urges righteous dependence on God. The project of evangelizing employability reveals the extraordinary utility of religion for the enactment of neoliberal priorities and policies of work enforcement and contributes to our understanding of religious neoliberalism and its class-based contradictions.

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Homelessness or the Violence of Poverty and Exploitation: Does It Matter?

Lyon-Callo¹

2012

Rethinking Marxism

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Neoliberal Governance and Faith-Based Initiatives: Agentive Cracks in the Logic Informing Homeless Sheltering in South Carolina's Capital

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

The Work of Social Work: NGOs and the Fetishization of Work in Bodhgaya, India

The Work of Social Work: NGOs and the Fetishization of Work in Bodhgaya, India

Jobless and Godless: Religious neoliberalism and the project of evangelizing employability in the US The authors contributed equally to the research for and writing of this article.

Homelessness or the Violence of Poverty and Exploitation: Does It Matter?

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