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States of Imposture: Scroungerphobia and the Choreography of Suspicion (2021)
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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.