Personalising the state : law, social welfare and politics on an English council estate

Thesis

This dissertation offers a study of everyday relations between residents and the state on a post-industrial council estate in England. Drawing upon historical and ethnographic data, it analyses how, often under conditions of sustained exclusion, residents rely upon the state in their daily struggles for security and survival. My central ethnographic finding is that residents personalise the state alongside informal networks of support and care into a local sociality of ...

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Authors: Koch, I

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-00rw7dzjy
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Social disadvantage; anthropology; politics; council estates; the state; England; Socio-legal studies; criminology; ethnography; Class; Social cleavages
• Subjects: Criminology; Sociology, Urban--Study and teaching; Equality