Revolting talks of migrant workers and community organisers - a UK community psychology perspective
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The United Kingdom’s neoliberal agenda has been theorised and commented on widely, \nnotably around the austerity measures, worklessness and the Big Society. We respond to \nthe call of the special issue, in centralising the importance of work for community \nengagement and individual identities. To explicate this we draw upon two areas of \nexternally funded research undertaken with migrant workers and trainee community \norganisers to explore how individuals within these communities can be positioned as \nabject citizens. We engage with Imogen Tyler’s (2013) notion of revolting subjects to \nconceptualise the ways in which the particular positionings of subjects as revolting occurs \nwithin an English context. The paper engages explicitly with a critical community \npsychology stance to reflect on the consequences of the neoliberal agenda on paid and \nunpaid work within communities. We add to the call for community psychologists to \nexplore, critique and challenge the current neoliberal codes that positions migrant workers \nand deprived communities as “revolting subjects”.
Authors: Jenny Fisher, Rebecca Lawthom, Carolyn Kagan
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2296683061