An ethnography of advice: between market, society and the declining welfare state

建议的人种学：市场、社会和福利国家衰退之间

• 批准号: ES/M003825/1
• 负责人: Deborah James
• 金额: $ 169.6万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FM003825%2F1
• 关键词: ethnography; advice; between; market; society

This two-year anthropological study, building on earlier research by the principle investigator and others, undertakes an ethnographic investigation of advice. Under conditions of continuing economic crisis, scholars and policy-makers are having to reshape their assumptions about the nature of society: particularly in respect of who receives assistance and who funds and arranges it. Where the 'usual' targets of welfare and benefits were the poor or destitute, they now include those who work but cannot make ends meet, and who experience increasing numbers of complex problems for which they need advice. And where the 'usual' provider of such things, at least in the post-war years, has been the state, this is increasingly not the case. As the economic crisis proceeds apace and the state's role is being whittled down, access to the counsel of experts is nonetheless increasingly essential. Without prejudging the outcomes, the project will investigate novel arrangements and their unintended consequences. It will explore innovations in advice giving provided by existing offices (under more traditional state-funded regimes), by new sources and novel agencies (under non-governmental and market-driven schemes), and by the social movements, self-help and informal network-based arrangements to which many are increasingly having to turn for counsel and support. The project proposes intensive research along two axes. Firstly, it explores in detail selected sites and cases in the UK (specifically England where a very particular set of legal/welfare arrangements is in operation), 'drilling down' to examine specific institutional settings, themes and topics at a range of different scales and levels. Topics and sites include a focus on the three specific areas of housing, debt and immigration advice, both within and beyond particular institutional settings, and law courts where litigants have started to engage in self-representation. Secondly, it uses two carefully-selected cross-national comparisons in order to illuminate, and gain a critical perspective on, aspects of UK welfare-related advice processes which are often taken as natural/inevitable by local policy-makers. Across these different settings, the project will:document the ongoing effects on advice giving of the withdrawal of legal aid funds, including the rise of self-litigation; explore the new roles assumed by bureaucrats, intermediaries and self-help groups, who are increasingly important in the advice encounter; investigate whether funding cuts have caused the dwindling of the much-vaunted empathy that advice-givers are often required to deliver and whether, in the process, advisers are becoming less effective at shaping the behaviour of those they counsel; look at how the very character of advice is changing as a result of these complex transformations;explore variations between selected national settings, to illuminate the changing and context-dependent character of advice in the UK.

这项为期两年的人类学研究以主要研究者和其他人的早期研究为基础，对咨询意见进行了人种学调查。在持续的经济危机条件下，学者和政策制定者不得不重新塑造他们对社会性质的假设：特别是在谁接受援助以及谁资助和安排援助方面。福利和福利的“通常”对象是穷人或赤贫者，现在包括那些工作但入不敷出的人，他们遇到越来越多的复杂问题，需要得到建议。而在这些东西的“通常”提供者，至少在战后几年，一直是国家，这是越来越不是这样。随着经济危机的迅速发展，国家的作用正在被削弱，获得专家的建议仍然越来越重要。在不预先判断结果的情况下，该项目将调查新的安排及其意想不到的后果。它将探讨现有办事处（在较传统的国家资助制度下）、新来源和新机构（在非政府和市场驱动的计划下）以及社会运动、自助和非正式网络安排（许多人越来越多地不得不求助于这些机构寻求咨询和支持）在提供咨询方面的创新。该项目建议沿沿着两条轴线进行深入研究。首先，它详细探讨了选定的网站和案例在英国（特别是英格兰，一个非常特殊的一套法律的/福利安排是在操作），“钻下来”，以检查特定的机构设置，主题和主题在一系列不同的规模和水平。主题和网站包括侧重于住房，债务和移民咨询的三个具体领域，无论是内部和外部的特定机构设置，以及诉讼当事人已经开始参与自我代表的法院。其次，它使用了两个精心挑选的跨国比较，以照亮，并获得一个关键的角度来看，英国福利相关的咨询过程，往往被视为自然/不可避免的地方政策制定者的方面。在这些不同的背景下，该项目将：记录撤销法律的援助资金对提供咨询的持续影响，包括自我诉讼的增加;探讨官僚、中间人和自助团体所承担的新作用，他们在咨询活动中越来越重要;调查资金削减是否导致了咨询者经常被要求提供的备受吹嘘的同情心的减少，以及在这个过程中，顾问们在塑造他们所建议的人的行为方面变得越来越不有效;看看这些复杂的转变是如何改变建议的性质的;探索选定的国家环境之间的差异，以阐明英国建议的变化和背景依赖性。

项目成果

Suspensory indebtedness: time, morality and power asymmetry in experiences of consumer debt

暂缓债务：消费者债务经历中的时间、道德和权力不对称

• DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2019.1652985
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Economy and Society
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Davey R

Polluter pays?: Understanding austerity through debt advice in the UK

污染者付出代价？：通过英国的债务建议了解紧缩政策

• DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12377
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Anthropology Today
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: Davey R

The changing roles of state, charity and commerce in resourcing social welfare legal advice: the case of debt advice in the UK

国家、慈善机构和商业在社会福利法律咨询资源中角色的变化：以英国债务咨询为例

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Davey R

Financialised Welfare and Its Vulnerabilities: Advice, Consumer Credit, and Church-Based Charity in the UK

金融化福利及其脆弱性：英国的建议、消费者信贷和教会慈善事业

• DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1687545
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Ethnos
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: Davey R

"But I do wish better for my kids": working-class forms of parental estrangement in England

“但我确实希望我的孩子更好”：英国工人阶级的父母疏远形式

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Davey R