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‘The do-gooders and scroungers’: examining narratives of foodbank use in online local press coverage in the West Midlands, UK
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Price, Catherine, Barons, Martine J., Garthwaite, Kayleigh and Jolly, Andy (2020) ‘The do-gooders and scroungers’: examining narratives of foodbank use in online local press coverage in the West Midlands, UK. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 28 (3). pp. 279-298. doi:10.1332/175982720X15905998323834
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15905998323834
Abstract
This qualitative study using a grounded theory approach, assesses the construction of claims in online news articles and below the line comments in connection with foodbank use in the West Midlands region, UK. The sample includes 146 online news articles and 132 below the line comments, commencing 23 September 2010 until 8 April 2019. Individual foodbank users’ stories are told and these relay discourses of stigma, shame, embarrassment and desperation. In contrast, the below the line comments centre on the undeserving poor. Here, emphasis is on the migrants who are ‘flooding’ the country, and the scroungers who are work-shy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HA Statistics H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Statistics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Poverty and Social Justice | ||||||
| Publisher: | Policy Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1759-8273 | ||||||
| Official Date: | October 2020 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 28 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 279-298 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1332/175982720X15905998323834 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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