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It shouldn't happen here : colonial and racial discourses of deservingness in UK anti-poverty campaign
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Kelbert, Alexandra Wanjiku (2022) It shouldn't happen here : colonial and racial discourses of deservingness in UK anti-poverty campaign. Critical Social Policy, 42 (4). pp. 565-585. doi:10.1177/02610183221075960 ISSN 0261-0183.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183221075960
Abstract
In September 2012, Save the Children UK launched the It Shouldn't Happen Here campaign, to raise awareness of the incidence of poverty amongst British children, and raise funds for the charity's UK programmes. Shortly after the launch, SCUK experienced severe media and political backlash, as primarily centre and right-wing commentators described the campaign as a political stunt, and sought to discredit, deny and depoliticise the claims that severe child poverty ‘happens here’. Drawing on interviews with former staff, and an analysis of the media response, this article explores the ways in which the campaign and the ensuing backlash were embedded in a set of colonial and racialized discourses around ‘who is poor’ and who is deserving/undeserving both in Britain and globally. Crucially, the findings from this study raise important challenges to the recent reintroduction of questions of race (as whiteness) in populist discussions around class and poverty.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Global Financial Crisis, 2007–2008, Social inequality, Economic policy, Poverty -- Economic aspects, Poor children, Child welfare, Minorities -- Economic conditions | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Social Policy | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0261-0183 | ||||||
Official Date: | November 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 42 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 21 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 565-585 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/02610183221075960 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 March 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 March 2022 | ||||||
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