All Outputs (2)

Post-pandemic futures: Social security reimagined (2021)
Report
Kaufman, J., Patrick, R., & Power, M. (2021). Post-pandemic futures: Social security reimagined. Covid Realities

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the shortcomings of the UK’s social security system. As we move out of the pandemic, there is a need to grasp this opportunity to debate and start planning for a new and better social security settlem... Read More about Post-pandemic futures: Social security reimagined.

States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion (2021)
Book Chapter
Kaufman, J. (2021). States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion. In The Imposter as Social Theory :Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans (171-190). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529213102.ch008

Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of an international agenda to reorganize welfare states and their social security provisions around the ‘activation’ of benefit recipients, often in the form of ‘welfare-to-work’ programmes. In the United K... Read More about States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion.