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The 115:1, doi 10.1215/00382876-3424720 © 2016 Duke University Press In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, a The austerity measures in Britain, Spain, and, most recently, Greece, to cite but three examples, have been severe, parallel cuts to the US federal budget (or "sequestration"), though less serious, have not been without significant impact (see Sen 2015).1 Yet, an exclusive focus on Europe and the United States, where welfare is understood as a very real responsibility of the state, already assumes something about the proffering and withholding of the conditions for well-being. As such, this special issue examines both the withdrawal of benefits (see, e.g., Prashad 2003) and the circumstances in which such benefits become essential--whether in the absence of work, given the rise of structural unemployment, or the turn to new modes of life and livelihood in the informal and postindustrial economies. Contributors also consider the role of non-state actors and the ways in which these shape experiences of lack and plenitude. Over the past several decades, citizens of nation-states in the western hemisphere, especially, have struggled with the evisceration of formal benefits--essential resources and services such as housing, food assistance, education, and medical care (see, e.g.,
South Atlantic Quarterly – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2016
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