eprintid: 10155051
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datestamp: 2022-11-04 13:28:04
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Kerr, Sarah-Jane
title: A Genealogy of Wealtherty through the Lens of Social Policy
ispublished: unpub
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
divisions: B16
divisions: UCL
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abstract: This thesis is a Foucauldian genealogy of Wealtherty with a focus on policy. I first establish what Wealtherty is – a state of soaring wealth inequality along with democratically damaging levels of contagion between financial and political power. Then I trace moments of descent and emergence in the 18th and 19th century.  I situate this ‘critical and effective’ history in the context of what I suggest are parallel governmental dispositions of scrutiny towards the poor and ignorance or dis-interest towards the rich. I describe how these operate today and describe some ‘awkward continuities’ with the past.

Section 1 (chapters 3-6) answers the questions ‘What have we become?’, and ‘How have we become what we are?’ (Tamboukou 1999). I use history to shed light on our present predicament, through an analytics of government (Dean 2010), taking government in a broad sense to mean the conduct of conduct. Against the axes of episteme, techne, visual field and identity formation, I look at situations in which conduct is conducted to establish and sustain authority, continuing my critical historical approach and using a range of contemporary and historical sources.  

Section 2 (chapters 7&8) addresses the questions, ‘What practices and processes sustain the state we are in?’ I consider how the state of Wealtherty is sustained in our now through knowledge networks, and through unequal epistemic relations established and sustained in policy discourse. I end with some ideas for remedy and ‘ways out’ of our ‘intolerable’ (Ball & Collet-Sabe 2021), unequal present through a Wealtherty manifesto.
date: 2022-09-28
date_type: published
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
thesis_class: doctoral_embargoed
thesis_award: Ph.D
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1974514
lyricists_name: Kerr, Sarah-Jane
lyricists_id: SKERR87
actors_name: Kerr, Sarah-Jane
actors_id: SKERR87
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
pagerange: 1-321
pages: 490
institution: UCL (University College London)
department: Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Kerr, Sarah-Jane;      (2022)    A Genealogy of Wealtherty through the Lens of Social Policy.                   Doctoral thesis  (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).     Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155051/2/Kerr_KER14130125_Full%20thesis%20with%20appendices.pdf