134 research outputs found
The everyday economy: introduction
No full textThis introduction to the Everyday Economy collection provides a brief summary of the concept as advanced by Julie Froud, Karel Williams and their collaborators at Manchester’s Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change, followed by an overview of articles by Anna Coote, Tess Lanning and Rachel Laurence, Alex Colás and Jason Edwards, David Edgerton, Christine Berry, Luke Raikes and Anna Killick
Education or knowledge? We need to rethink how we measure people's understanding of politics
No full textResearchers tend to rely on multiple choice tests to measure people's political knowledge. Anna Killick explains why more open-ended interview methods could provide new insights, since people will have the chance to explain what they believe they know in their own words
'I know <i>my</i> economy’: a political ethnography of how everyday actors understand ‘the economy'
No full textThis thesis is a political interpretivist ethnographic study of everyday actors’ understanding of the term ‘the economy’. Political scholars have neglected this subject despite its central relevance; often treating the economy as if it is an uncontested concept. I conducted fieldwork with sixty residents from two contrasting districts in a city on the south coast of England between 2016 and 2017. When people are asked to define ‘the economy’, answers are often thin, along the lines of ‘to do with money’, but using methods like participant observation, semi-structured interviews and focus groups reveals fuller and more nuanced understanding.The thesis suggests that the dominant pattern in how everyday actors’ understandings of the economy vary is based on their economic circumstances. High income participants, regardless of their political beliefs, understand the economy to be an umbrella for potentially benign forces. Their distrust of economic expertise is growing but not deep-rooted. In contrast, low income participants, regardless of their political beliefs and despite expressing deep economic concerns, contest the official discourse on the economy. Most low income participants understand ‘the economy’ to be a rigged system in which wealthy elites, including politicians and economic experts, ‘write the rules’. They are three times less likely to use the term ‘the economy’ than higher income participants and less likely to label their own political behaviour in relation to recent political events as ‘economic’, even when their wider reasoning has been about issues that would usually be interpreted as economic in analyses of political behaviour. The thesis reveals that both high and low income participants entwine their moral and economic beliefs, which raises questions for how we as political scientists categorise what is economic and non-economic and interpret trends in current political behaviour
Low-income voters’ disinterest in the economy was reasonable and calculated, not an inexorable long-term trend
No full textAnna Killick draws on an ethnographic study with residents of an English city in the two years following the referendum to explore what people think about ‘the economy’. She finds that low-income residents are less interested in and more negative about the phenomenon of the economy compared with high income residents. However, their reasoning is based on post-2008 economic conditions, and any lack of interest in the economy may be more calculative and temporary than is often assumed
Book review: Rigged: understanding ‘the economy’ in Brexit Britain by Anna Killick
No full textIn Rigged: Understanding ‘The Economy’ in Brexit Britain, Anna Killick offers a new ethnographic study conducted in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum that explores what people from a range of backgrounds mean when they talk about ‘the economy’, with respondents discussing their employment, beliefs about debt, trade and migration and their perceptions of the economy overall. This book is highly recommended to anyone interested in developing a deeper understanding of the economy’s conceptual underpinnings and the tensions that Brexit has brought to the surface, writes Jack Mosse. Rigged: Understanding ‘The Economy’ in Brexit Britain. Anna Killick. Manchester University Press. 2020
A prey on normal people: C. Killick Millard and the euthanasia movement in Great Britain, 1930-55
No full textExamines the contribution of English public health activist C. Killick Millard to the euthanasia movement. Implications of the legislative decisions on the right to die; Contribution of the early twentieth-century Unitarians to humanism; Reaffirmation of the Christian messages of compassion.; Examines the contribution of English public health activist C. Killick Millard to the euthanasia movement. Implications of the legislative decisions on the right to die; Contribution of the early twentieth-century Unitarians to humanism; Reaffirmation of the Christian messages of compassion
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Place-based politics and nested deprivation in the UK: beyond Cities-Towns, ‘Two Englands’, and the ‘Left behind’
No full text‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the UK draw on survey data to tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North-South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation—deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intensive fieldwork in 8 neighbourhoods across Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight that varied in terms of both their relative affluence and their density of population (including urban, suburban/satellite, market town or rural village). We highlight the three key themes and consequences that emerge for those living in nested deprivation in relatively affluent and geographically dispersed contexts: a) either disconnection from or entrapment within the local economy; b) social isolation and atomization; and c) powerlessness to affect politics. As such, we conclude that ‘place –based’ explanations of rapid and radical changes to political participation in Britain need to take fine-grained geographical distinctions much more seriously. Our study provides evidence that the rising tides in affluent areas are drowning some residents rather than lifting all boats. Where deprivation is dispersed and then nested within mostly affluent constituencies it does not allow for the political mobilisation among communities of interest that is a necessary condition for pluralist representative democracies
BOOK REVIEW
No full textAuthor: Steve Killick; Emotional literacy at the heart of the school ethos; London/Seven Oakes/New Delhi; Paul Chapman, A SAGE Publications Company; ISBN 1-4129-1186-
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