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TY - JOUR
T1 - Disability and social (in)security
T2 - emotions, contradictions of ‘inclusion’ and employment and support allowance
AU - Grover, Christopher
AU - Piggott, Linda
N1 - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=SPS The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Social Policy and Society, 12 (3), pp 369-380 2013, © 2013 Cambridge University Press
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - The focus of this article is on the ways in which emotions are engaged in the discursive construction and treatment of disabled people in receipt of social security benefits. The article draws upon the literature related to the social importance of emotions and that concerned with moral boundary drawing. It argues that the evocation of emotional reactions is crucial in understanding the ways in which changes to out-of-work benefits for disabled people (the development of Employment and Support Allowance) have recently been effected and the ways in which this has reflected a desire to more closely denote those judged able and not able to work in a redrawing of the ‘disability category’. Whilethis has been done in the name of ‘inclusion’, the article concludes that its consequences are, in various ways, the ‘exclusion’ and stigmatisation of disabled people.
AB - The focus of this article is on the ways in which emotions are engaged in the discursive construction and treatment of disabled people in receipt of social security benefits. The article draws upon the literature related to the social importance of emotions and that concerned with moral boundary drawing. It argues that the evocation of emotional reactions is crucial in understanding the ways in which changes to out-of-work benefits for disabled people (the development of Employment and Support Allowance) have recently been effected and the ways in which this has reflected a desire to more closely denote those judged able and not able to work in a redrawing of the ‘disability category’. Whilethis has been done in the name of ‘inclusion’, the article concludes that its consequences are, in various ways, the ‘exclusion’ and stigmatisation of disabled people.
KW - Disabled people
KW - emotions
KW - exclusion
KW - inclusion
KW - social security
U2 - 10.1017/S1474746412000619
DO - 10.1017/S1474746412000619
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 369
EP - 380
JO - Social Policy and Society
JF - Social Policy and Society
SN - 1475-3073
IS - 3
ER -