Fairness and the Politics of Resentment
Fairness and the Politics of Resentment
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DOI：
10.1017/s0047279413000056
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发表时间：
2013-03
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2
通讯作者：
P. Hoggett;Hen Wilkinson;Pheobe Beedell
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作者：
P. Hoggett;Hen Wilkinson;Pheobe Beedell
摘要情感在福利政策制定中的作用还没有得到充分的研究。本文考察了怨恨在2010年后英国联合政府提出的一种特殊形式的“反福利民粹主义”的构建中所起的作用。我们认为，英国政党已经挪用公平的话语，以促进从根本上分裂的政策，一直受欢迎的大部分选民，包括矛盾的是，许多较贫穷的选民。在2010年大选前对英国白色工人阶级社区进行的焦点小组研究中，与感知到的不公平和损失相关的怨恨成为我们受访者中非常强烈的主题。我们研究这种怨恨的一个潜在的“结构的感觉”，燃料的反动民粹主义中看到的“反福利”的话语。这些措施在经历紧缩的国家（如英国）促进了越来越多的有条件和惩罚性的福利形式，在那些“几乎没有”的人中制造了竞争，而不是建立团结，并将注意力从更大的不平等中转移开。
Abstract The role of the emotions in the framing of welfare policies is still relatively underexplored. This article examines the role of resentment in the construction of a particular form of ‘anti-welfare populism’ advanced by the Coalition Government in the UK after 2010. We argue that UK political parties have appropriated the discourse of fairness to promote fundamentally divisive policies which have been popular with large sections of the electorate including, paradoxically, many poorer voters. In focus group research in white working class communities in the UK undertaken just before the 2010 General Election, resentments related to perceived unfairness and loss emerged as very strong themes among our respondents. We examine such resentments in terms of an underlying ‘structure of feeling’ which fuels the reactionary populism seen in ‘anti-welfare’ discourses. These promote increasingly conditional and punitive forms of welfare in countries experiencing austerity, such as the UK, creating rivalries rather than building solidarities amongst those who ‘have little’ and drawing attention away from greater inequalities.