
Ethnographies of Deservingness
Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
By: Jelena ToÅ¡iÄ? (Editor), Andreas Streinzer (Editor)
Paperback | 1 February 2025
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Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology. This edited collection provides a novel and systematic conceptualization of Deservingness and shows how it can serve as a prime and integrative conceptual prism to ethnographically explore transforming welfare states, regimes of migration, as well as capitalist social reproduction and relations at large.
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"Ethnographies of deservingness is timely, refreshing, and, in terms of the trend it foretells, devastating in equal measure...Ultimately, this volume cogently delivers a cohesive yet varied story of how the mandate of deservingness is embedded ever-deeper in Euro-American social fabric, shoring up existing hierarchies, maintaining existing power structures, and ensuring their continuance." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
"This is an excellent collection that has a coherence that is rare in edited volumes. It makes a major contribution to social scientific understandings of inequality through its focus on categorisations of 'deservingness'. In what I think is a brilliant move, it combines conceptual and historical analysis with a focus on three themes that are rarely brought together in a single volume, namely: social welfare, migration and personal/household debt." * Paul Stubbs, Former Co-President of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy of the American Anthropological Association
"The book addresses the concept of deservingness from different points of view. The four main parts of the book are rich in ethnography, have a strong theoretical background and offer to the reader a panoramic view that takes into consideration the (un)deservingness as a processual and relational notion rather than a condition." * Georgeta Stoica, Universite de La Reunion
ISBN: 9781805397540
ISBN-10: 1805397540
Series: EASA Series
Published: 1st February 2025
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 448
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.31
Weight (kg): 0.59
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