Alienation in Motion

Negotiating Everyday Lives Under Welfare Discipline

Gerardo Javier Arriaga Garcia (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350242524 (ISBN)

Infos

Following the experiences of 40 women in some of the poorest rural and urban areas of Mexico, this book establishes a framework that explains how material hardships connect with the lived experiences of poverty. Through the voices of those in receipt of Mexico's conditional welfare support 'Prospera', Alienation in Motion examines the inadequacy of welfare sanctions to alleviate poverty.

Arriaga-Garcia explores the specific ways in which making government support conditional on proving personal worth alienates people from wider society, decreases their control over living conditions, and ultimately diminishes their power to lead a life of their own choosing. The book exposes the reproduction of inequalities, and the ways in which people become worse-off politically, economically, and symbolically as a result welfare discipline enacted via conditional cash transfer programmes (or CCTs).

Drawing insights from a review of over 150 internal and external evaluations of the Prospera programme in Mexico, and the many national and international reports on welfare conditionality, Alienation in Motion will be the most authoritative and up-to-date book on poverty and welfare support.

Autor

Gerardo Javier Arriaga Garcia is a Research Officer at the University of Birmingham. Before conducting his PhD research, Dr. Gerardo Arriaga was a government official working for the National Commission for the Refuggee Aid in Mexico where he received, analysed and decided the refugee status of asylum seekers. He was also a policy maker when he worked as a director of innovation and modernisation at the General Comptroller’s Office of Mexico City in Mexico.

Inhalt

1. Introduction
2. Prospera
2.1 The Evolution of Social Policy
2.2 The Ascendance of Welfare Discipline
2.3 The Three Waves of CCT
2.4 Neoliberalism and Social Policy
3. Alienation in Poverty
3.1 Poverty and Welfare
3.2 Human Needs and Agency
3.3 Alienation
4. Alienation from Resources and Socially Available Opportunities
4.1 Work
4.2 Time
4.3 Income
5. Alienation from Oneself
5.1 The Logic of "Success"
5.2 Institutional Indifference and the Reward-Punishment Mechanism
5.3 The Self of Beneficiaries
6. Alienation from Others
6.1 The Material and Symbolic Construing of Poverty
6.2 Altered Social Dynamics
6.3 Asymmetries of Power
7. Alienation in Poverty
7.1 Welfare Discipline
7.2 Policy Implications
7.3 What Next?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2026
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-13: 9781350242524 / 9781350242524
• Zustand: Neuware