Resisting Unemployment Stigma

Bakhtin, Carnivalesque and Metaphor
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5146-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Observing Organisations

This book offers a powerful rethinking of long-term unemployment, focusing on everyday lived experiences that reveal how unemployed men make sense of deindustrialisation and prolonged joblessness. The book foregrounds Bakhtin’s theory of resisting power through humour and dialogue, challenging prevailing psychological and individualistic narratives. It instead shows how men resist dominant activation discourses by voicing metaphors that reflect their embodied experiences.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a post-industrial inner city Work Club, the book combines photographs, quotations and vignettes to illuminate the loss of largely masculine employment. It offers a critical analysis of agency and discourse, with new perspectives on how unemployed men resist and cope with their circumstances in ways that are often overlooked by mainstream theories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tracey, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Bakhtinian Genres and Unemployment in Storytelling

3. Unemployment Discourse As Bakhtinian Monoglossia

4. Bakhtinian Relativity and the ‘Unshakeable Hierarchy’ of the Unemployed

5. Jobseeker Resistance as Bakhtinian Heteroglossia

6. Metaphors as Bakhtinian Dialogue and Reversal

7. Conclusion and Policy Implications

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Tracey is Assistant Professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University.