This book explores the shift towards individual responsibility that
is increasingly evident in welfare systems across the world. The
book will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology,
social policy, and political science, with a particular focus on
migration, minorities, political discourse, securitisation, social
justice and human rights. "This book offers a compelling read,
analysing how workfare is legitimated in the Central European
context, through the innovative metaphor of "political farming."
The analytical framework brings together several distinct streams
of theorizing (critical discourse studies, critical security
studies, governmentality, boundary-making, and the dynamics of
ethnic relations) seamlessly and effectively. Through a very
nuanced discursive analysis, Kissova shows how the poor, the
offenders, and the "unadaptable" - categories policymakers use to
talk about material need recipients - are linked pathologically
with criminality, abuse of the system and other negative
perceptions. This is a must-read text for anyone interested in how
political actors justify questionable legislation that cements
inequality in today's neoliberal milieu." - B. Nadya Jaworsky,
Associate Professor, Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
"Lenka Kissova's book is clearly written and carefully researched.
Her interdisciplinary insight and discursive analysis of
parliamentary debates on Slovak "workfare" policies illustrates the
deliberate, precise and politicized colocation of Roma
marginalization and economic disadvantage, in a manner that starkly
illustrates systemic racism dressed up as morally necessary
regulatory reform. Moreover, her research has broader comparative
and methodological relevance given how she layers in and utilizes
governmentality, securitization and legitimation theory, unmasking
how neoliberal economic assumptions and dog whistle politics, woven
into the speech of politicians, works to demonize recipients as
real or potential cheats and criminals, enact further social
exclusion and heighten inequality and fear while not-so-subtly
promoting existing prejudices. Her overarching metaphor-that of
parliamentarians engaging in "political farming" where their ideas
seed and take root in fertile soil of the national landscape
resulting in regulatory "products"-effectively demonstrates how
social reality generally and state regulation specifically can be
constructed divorced from actual evidence, a process beyond her
specific case and critically relevant to our times." - Barbara J.
Falk, Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces
College/Royal Military College of Canada, Fellow, Centre for
European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto,
Canada
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