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Journal Articles by Vicki Dabrowski
Novos Rumos Sociológicos
Este artigo tem como foco o quadro da política de austeridade do Reino Unido, questionando e traç... more Este artigo tem como foco o quadro da política de austeridade do Reino Unido, questionando e traçando suas origens, modalidades e efeitos globais no contexto do Reino Unido. Fazemos isso desvelando as várias formas pelas quais o estado, em diferentes momentos e em diferentes formações estatais, implementou formas específicas de austeridade. Através desta análise, este artigo chama a atenção para as características morais, políticas e econômicas da austeridade nessas formas particulares. Com um foco particular sobre a gênese da austeridade em diferentes momentos de crise, este artigo destaca o papeldas mulheres nesses períodos e explora as várias maneiras pelas quais elas têm suportado o peso do projeto de austeridade. É através desta análise que este artigo demonstra a importância de conectar a austeridade contemporânea com seus legados históricos. Meu argumento é que isso permite uma compreensão mais rica da austeridade como um projeto econômico-político-moral, e maisespecificamen...
The Sociological Review, 2020
This article focuses on how middle-class women identify with ‘neoliberal feminism’ within the con... more This article focuses on how middle-class women identify with ‘neoliberal feminism’ within the context of UK austerity by drawing on interviews with 17 women in Leeds, London and Brighton during 2014 and 2015. The article argues that the way in which these women identify with, understand and discuss whom feminism is important for, converges with a range of values present in the austerity discourse. In line with the principles of ‘late modernity’, feminism is spoken through an individualised lifestyle discourse, with an emphasis on the need to be resilient and have a positive mental attitude to deal with forms of inequality. Due to the particularity of the context, women create distance, and classed and racialised distinctions away from women who are suffering in the current context. This distancing is crucial to the maintenance of the austerity project, since, instead of helping to put an end to gender inequality, this form of feminism aids the legitimation of hierarchical relationsh...
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Despite academic, policy and charity commissioned research giving considerable attention to the h... more Despite academic, policy and charity commissioned research giving considerable attention to the health of imprisoned women, significantly less research has considered the reproductive health and rights of this group. This shortfall is noteworthy since women who are imprisoned are often in very vulnerable positions, and so their ongoing healthcare in relation to gynaecology, obstetrics and sexual health and wellbeing, as well as access to such rights, should be a priority. These issues are exacerbated for the high number of women who are repeatedly imprisoned for short sentences. Presenting findings of a rapid evidence assessment, this article highlights the lack of attention to this aspect of imprisoned women's health and rights, using the limited information available. The article argues that suitable reproductive healthcare needs to be seen as an essential aspect of women's rights. Furthermore, the current nature of imprisonment in England and Wales results in multiple and frequent rights violations.
Books by Vicki Dabrowski
Conference Presentations by Vicki Dabrowski
Book Chapters by Vicki Dabrowski
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
This chapter investigates how women who are significantly affected by austerity and welfare refor... more This chapter investigates how women who are significantly affected by austerity and welfare reform and who are devalued and made abject by the symbolic and institutional violence of the austerity programme — single mothers, women reliant on welfare, migrant women and women with disabilities or health conditions — talk about the austerity agenda. It unpacks the role of the state in reinforcing and producing social divisions, processes of discrimination, stigmatization, prejudice, exclusion and blame in the everyday. The chapter explores the complex, contradictory and nuanced ways in which women who are closer to the stigmatized position of the 'bad citizen' simultaneously reproduce and reinforce moralistic narratives of economic productivity and moral worth and, at the same time, question and talk back to existing discourses through processes of distancing, blame, boundary formation and creation of alternative values.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
The chapter explores how austerity measures — the consequences of welfare reform, increased level... more The chapter explores how austerity measures — the consequences of welfare reform, increased levels of debt, increased pressure on household income and wages, and changes to employment — have differently affected women's everyday lives. Austerity has real outcomes and gendered social effects. It is this symbiotic relationship — the role of the state in shaping women's experiences — that the remainder of the chapters of this book investigate. Highlighting how changes to employment and living standards are impacted by class and other intersecting forms of social difference, this chapter demonstrates how austerity measures intensify and extend existing forms of inequality. Ultimately, this chapter exposes how women are certainly not 'all in this together,' showing that the gendered effects of austerity are not experienced equally; they can be felt as minimal, significant or extreme. It exposes the details on how women's experiences of the present are shaped by pre-existing social markers, particularly class, but also by 'race,' parenthood, health and disability; and how these experiences are being further exacerbated by, and within, austerity Britain.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
This chapter reveals how women respond to and navigate through the effects of austerity measures.... more This chapter reveals how women respond to and navigate through the effects of austerity measures. It highlights the commonalities in women's navigation strategies, but also where and how these approaches diverge, with particular attention paid towards the strategies employed by single mothers. Here, divergent accounts of varieties of austerity as lived come into view, from women changing their shopping habits in fairly minor ways, to the use of foodbanks and informal loans. Ultimately, this chapter discusses five sections of this book, each of which explore the different ways and the extent to which these women are navigating through austerity. It is through such a nuanced analysis that we can further understand both the commonalities and divergences in women's experiences.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
This chapter pays particular attention to how women's future imaginaries are felt in the pres... more This chapter pays particular attention to how women's future imaginaries are felt in the present. It explores how austerity affects these imaginaries and asks which types of futures have women begun to imagine in the context of austerity. Women's future imaginings are multiple and are affected particularly by class positioning. The chapter changes its focus to reveal the ways in which austerity affects women's access to different kinds of imagined and real futures. Making interventions into some of the more utopian and post-political futures' research and thinking, this chapter specifically reflects on the different ways in which austerity distributes social distress and anxiety. Ultimately, it presents a nuanced analysis of how women imagine but also plan their future.
This chapter takes a look on the social and political history of austerity in the UK. It begins w... more This chapter takes a look on the social and political history of austerity in the UK. It begins with a historical contextualization of austerity as a repeating political project, exploring how the state has been put to use during different times of crisis and state regimes. This genealogy provides a gendered analysis of the workings of the state, highlighting how women have continually been used and/or blamed. It then shifts on the present era of UK austerity. Through the examination of policy documents and political discourse, it investigates how moral discourses that emanate from the state both justify changes to the welfare state and reinforce gendered, classed and 'racial' divisions inside the population. Ultimately, the chapter situates the present context of austerity within historical legacies that structure, reproduce and legitimize material and symbolic violence. In doing so, it analyses how the state has crafted and shaped gender and class relations within these different periodizations.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State
Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, the author of this book makes an invaluable... more Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, the author of this book makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between the state's legitimization of austerity and women's everyday experiences, the book reveals how unjust policies are produced, how alternatives are silenced and highlights the different ways in which women are used or blamed. By understanding austerity as more than simply an economic project, the book fills important gaps in existing knowledge on state, gender and class relations in the context of UK austerity. Delivering a timely account of the misconceptions of policies, discourses and representations around austerity in the UK, the book illustrates the complex ways through which austerity is experienced by women in their everyday lives.
Thesis by Vicki Dabrowski
This thesis explores the gendered impact of austerity, contributing to an enhanced understanding ... more This thesis explores the gendered impact of austerity, contributing to an enhanced understanding of women’s experiences of austerity. It approaches austerity as a set of coexisting ideological (moral–political–economic) discourses and policies, that construct gender in particular ways, and that have particular gendered social effects. This thesis argues that it is vital to understand the workings of the state and the wider historical legacies that helped to produce inequalities through material and symbolic violence, since it is this context which frames how austerity is lived and felt in the everyday. This thesis thus examines the symbiotic relationship between the states production and legitimisation of austerity, and the ways in which it is experienced and articulated by young women in their everyday lives. Exploratory and interpretative in nature, this study draws on interviews and group discussions with sixty-one young women from different classed and ‘racial’ backgrounds, aged...
Book reviews by Vicki Dabrowski
Book Review: Caroline Knowles, Flip-flop: A Journey through Globalisation’s Backroads. Theory, Culture and Society (Online). November, 2014, Nov 5, 2014
Papers by Vicki Dabrowski
Bristol University Press eBooks, Nov 4, 2020
Social policy & administration/Social policy and administration, May 28, 2024
Novos Rumos Sociológicos
Este artigo tem como foco o quadro da política de austeridade do Reino Unido, questionando e traç... more Este artigo tem como foco o quadro da política de austeridade do Reino Unido, questionando e traçando suas origens, modalidades e efeitos globais no contexto do Reino Unido. Fazemos isso desvelando as várias formas pelas quais o estado, em diferentes momentos e em diferentes formações estatais, implementou formas específicas de austeridade. Através desta análise, este artigo chama a atenção para as características morais, políticas e econômicas da austeridade nessas formas particulares. Com um foco particular sobre a gênese da austeridade em diferentes momentos de crise, este artigo destaca o papeldas mulheres nesses períodos e explora as várias maneiras pelas quais elas têm suportado o peso do projeto de austeridade. É através desta análise que este artigo demonstra a importância de conectar a austeridade contemporânea com seus legados históricos. Meu argumento é que isso permite uma compreensão mais rica da austeridade como um projeto econômico-político-moral, e maisespecificamen...
The Sociological Review, 2020
This article focuses on how middle-class women identify with ‘neoliberal feminism’ within the con... more This article focuses on how middle-class women identify with ‘neoliberal feminism’ within the context of UK austerity by drawing on interviews with 17 women in Leeds, London and Brighton during 2014 and 2015. The article argues that the way in which these women identify with, understand and discuss whom feminism is important for, converges with a range of values present in the austerity discourse. In line with the principles of ‘late modernity’, feminism is spoken through an individualised lifestyle discourse, with an emphasis on the need to be resilient and have a positive mental attitude to deal with forms of inequality. Due to the particularity of the context, women create distance, and classed and racialised distinctions away from women who are suffering in the current context. This distancing is crucial to the maintenance of the austerity project, since, instead of helping to put an end to gender inequality, this form of feminism aids the legitimation of hierarchical relationsh...
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Despite academic, policy and charity commissioned research giving considerable attention to the h... more Despite academic, policy and charity commissioned research giving considerable attention to the health of imprisoned women, significantly less research has considered the reproductive health and rights of this group. This shortfall is noteworthy since women who are imprisoned are often in very vulnerable positions, and so their ongoing healthcare in relation to gynaecology, obstetrics and sexual health and wellbeing, as well as access to such rights, should be a priority. These issues are exacerbated for the high number of women who are repeatedly imprisoned for short sentences. Presenting findings of a rapid evidence assessment, this article highlights the lack of attention to this aspect of imprisoned women's health and rights, using the limited information available. The article argues that suitable reproductive healthcare needs to be seen as an essential aspect of women's rights. Furthermore, the current nature of imprisonment in England and Wales results in multiple and frequent rights violations.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
This chapter investigates how women who are significantly affected by austerity and welfare refor... more This chapter investigates how women who are significantly affected by austerity and welfare reform and who are devalued and made abject by the symbolic and institutional violence of the austerity programme — single mothers, women reliant on welfare, migrant women and women with disabilities or health conditions — talk about the austerity agenda. It unpacks the role of the state in reinforcing and producing social divisions, processes of discrimination, stigmatization, prejudice, exclusion and blame in the everyday. The chapter explores the complex, contradictory and nuanced ways in which women who are closer to the stigmatized position of the 'bad citizen' simultaneously reproduce and reinforce moralistic narratives of economic productivity and moral worth and, at the same time, question and talk back to existing discourses through processes of distancing, blame, boundary formation and creation of alternative values.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
The chapter explores how austerity measures — the consequences of welfare reform, increased level... more The chapter explores how austerity measures — the consequences of welfare reform, increased levels of debt, increased pressure on household income and wages, and changes to employment — have differently affected women's everyday lives. Austerity has real outcomes and gendered social effects. It is this symbiotic relationship — the role of the state in shaping women's experiences — that the remainder of the chapters of this book investigate. Highlighting how changes to employment and living standards are impacted by class and other intersecting forms of social difference, this chapter demonstrates how austerity measures intensify and extend existing forms of inequality. Ultimately, this chapter exposes how women are certainly not 'all in this together,' showing that the gendered effects of austerity are not experienced equally; they can be felt as minimal, significant or extreme. It exposes the details on how women's experiences of the present are shaped by pre-existing social markers, particularly class, but also by 'race,' parenthood, health and disability; and how these experiences are being further exacerbated by, and within, austerity Britain.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
This chapter reveals how women respond to and navigate through the effects of austerity measures.... more This chapter reveals how women respond to and navigate through the effects of austerity measures. It highlights the commonalities in women's navigation strategies, but also where and how these approaches diverge, with particular attention paid towards the strategies employed by single mothers. Here, divergent accounts of varieties of austerity as lived come into view, from women changing their shopping habits in fairly minor ways, to the use of foodbanks and informal loans. Ultimately, this chapter discusses five sections of this book, each of which explore the different ways and the extent to which these women are navigating through austerity. It is through such a nuanced analysis that we can further understand both the commonalities and divergences in women's experiences.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State, 2020
This chapter pays particular attention to how women's future imaginaries are felt in the pres... more This chapter pays particular attention to how women's future imaginaries are felt in the present. It explores how austerity affects these imaginaries and asks which types of futures have women begun to imagine in the context of austerity. Women's future imaginings are multiple and are affected particularly by class positioning. The chapter changes its focus to reveal the ways in which austerity affects women's access to different kinds of imagined and real futures. Making interventions into some of the more utopian and post-political futures' research and thinking, this chapter specifically reflects on the different ways in which austerity distributes social distress and anxiety. Ultimately, it presents a nuanced analysis of how women imagine but also plan their future.
This chapter takes a look on the social and political history of austerity in the UK. It begins w... more This chapter takes a look on the social and political history of austerity in the UK. It begins with a historical contextualization of austerity as a repeating political project, exploring how the state has been put to use during different times of crisis and state regimes. This genealogy provides a gendered analysis of the workings of the state, highlighting how women have continually been used and/or blamed. It then shifts on the present era of UK austerity. Through the examination of policy documents and political discourse, it investigates how moral discourses that emanate from the state both justify changes to the welfare state and reinforce gendered, classed and 'racial' divisions inside the population. Ultimately, the chapter situates the present context of austerity within historical legacies that structure, reproduce and legitimize material and symbolic violence. In doing so, it analyses how the state has crafted and shaped gender and class relations within these different periodizations.
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State
Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, the author of this book makes an invaluable... more Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, the author of this book makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between the state's legitimization of austerity and women's everyday experiences, the book reveals how unjust policies are produced, how alternatives are silenced and highlights the different ways in which women are used or blamed. By understanding austerity as more than simply an economic project, the book fills important gaps in existing knowledge on state, gender and class relations in the context of UK austerity. Delivering a timely account of the misconceptions of policies, discourses and representations around austerity in the UK, the book illustrates the complex ways through which austerity is experienced by women in their everyday lives.
This thesis explores the gendered impact of austerity, contributing to an enhanced understanding ... more This thesis explores the gendered impact of austerity, contributing to an enhanced understanding of women’s experiences of austerity. It approaches austerity as a set of coexisting ideological (moral–political–economic) discourses and policies, that construct gender in particular ways, and that have particular gendered social effects. This thesis argues that it is vital to understand the workings of the state and the wider historical legacies that helped to produce inequalities through material and symbolic violence, since it is this context which frames how austerity is lived and felt in the everyday. This thesis thus examines the symbiotic relationship between the states production and legitimisation of austerity, and the ways in which it is experienced and articulated by young women in their everyday lives. Exploratory and interpretative in nature, this study draws on interviews and group discussions with sixty-one young women from different classed and ‘racial’ backgrounds, aged...
Book Review: Caroline Knowles, Flip-flop: A Journey through Globalisation’s Backroads. Theory, Culture and Society (Online). November, 2014, Nov 5, 2014
Bristol University Press eBooks, Nov 4, 2020
Social policy & administration/Social policy and administration, May 28, 2024
Maastricht University Press eBooks, Jun 29, 2023