Disability welfare reform and the chav threat
A reflection on social class and ‘contested disabilities’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12314307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanne Heeney (University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 650-653 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disability & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-7599 • E-ISSN: 1360-0508 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09687599.2015.1026745 |
| OpenAlex | W2016661471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 15 |
The recent UK media clash between Katie Hopkins and Katie Price in the reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother 2015 regarding Price's receipt of welfare benefits for her son, Harvey, has reopened old debates about welfare support for the so-called deserving and undeserving poor. Nowhere is this more evident than in the classed moralities of motherhood with the harshest criticisms aimed at the 'chav' poor and working-class families and their children whose lifestyles and moral respectability may be called into question for causing or even fabricating particular disabilities in the first place. Alongside these characterisations of parental deficits and immorality associated with working-class and poor parents, connections between 'invisible' disability, poverty and poor parenting continue
Brother · Class (philosophy · Criminology · Economics · Immorality · Media studies · Morality · Political science · Poverty · Reality tv · Receipt · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare reform · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Social Work Education and Practice
Oh goodness, I am watching reality TV
Demonised, impoverished and now forced into isolation
Social policy and transitions to training and work for disabled young people in the United Kingdom
Disability in the UK
The White Working Class, Racism and Respectability
Close encounters of the classed kind. Again
Chav Mum Chav Scum
Classed Intersections
Becoming dishuman
Cultural Capital
From Refrigerator Mothers to Warrior-Heroes
I Feel as if I Am the One Who Is Disabled
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |