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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Deservingness: Reassessing the Moral Dimensions of Inequality
Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tošić
Part I: Deservingness – Genealogies, Struggles and Ideologies
Chapter 1. Caring for the Old and Letting Them Die: A Political Economy of Human Worth
Susana Narotzky
Chapter 2. Must the Tired and Poor ´Stand on Their Own Two Feet`? Tools for Analyzing How Migrants’ Deservingness is Reckoned
Sarah S. Willen and Jennifer Cook
Chapter 3. Deserving Classes without Class: Explaining the Neo-Nationalist Ascendency
Don Kalb
Chapter 4. A Methodological, Reflexive and Comparative Approach to Deservingness
Erik Bähre
Part II: Categories, Policies and Negotiations of Deservingness
Chapter 5. Hartz IV. Affective and Sensual Registers of Moral Inferiority
Stefan Wellgraf
Chapter 6. Unemployment, Deservingness and Ideological Apparatuses: A Case Study from Turin, Italy
Carlo Capello
Chapter 7. The Politics of Austerity Welfare: Charity, Discourses of Deservingness and Human Needs in a Portuguese Church Parish
Patricia Matos
Chapter 8. ‘Here, Morality is a Sense of Entitlement’: Citizenship, Deservingness, and Inequality in Suburban America
Elisa Lanari
Part III: The (Un)Deserving Migrant/Refugee
Chapter 9. Ambivalences of (Un)Deservingness: Tracing Vulnerability in the EU Border Regime
Sabine Strasser
Chapter 10. The Politics of Deservingness among Resettled Bhutanese Refugees
Nicole Hoellerer
Chapter 11. Suffering and Vulnerability Reconfigured. Refugee Images of Hungarian Migrants Working in Refugee Accommodation Institutions in Germany
Ildikó Zakariás and Margit Feischmidt
Part IV: Debt Relations – State, Market Actors and Debtors
Chapter 12. Do Mortgagors in Hardship Deserve Debt Relief? Legitimizing and Challenging Inequality during the Spanish Home Repossessions Crisis
Irene Sabaté
Chapter 13. Households on Trial: Over-Indebtedness, State and Moral Struggles in Greece
Theodora Vetta
Chapter 14. Victims, Patriots and Middle Class: The (Un)Deservingness of Debtors in Post–Credit Boom Croatia
Marek Mikuš
Afterword: Differentiating Deservingness
James G. Carrier
Index
Ethnographies of Deservingness
Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
Edited by Jelena Tošić and Andreas Streinzer
Afterword by James G. Carrier
436 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-599-6 Hb Published (August 2022)
eISBN 978-1-80539-930-8 eBook