In both Canada and the United States, middle-income families feel neglected by policymakers but struggle to balance their financial need and desire for government support on the one hand with neoliberal beliefs in self-reliance and self-responsibility on the other. The focus of this paper is on the tensions experienced by middle-income participants in both countries as they try to negotiate a place for themselves amid these competing discourses. Specifically, this paper analyzes participants’ struggle to juxtapose their place in the ‘shrinking' or ‘forgotten' middle class, against their desire to be ‘good' citizens who take responsibility for themselves and their families. This analysis plays out against the backdrop of different socio-poli...
The chapter, "“Doing it all…and making it look easy!”: Yummy mummies, mompreneurs and the North Amer...
This dissertation centers on a Canadian welfare state institution dubbed by the author, Hawthorne Ho...
In the 2008 federal elections in Canada and The United States, conservative parties used class rheto...
In both Canada and the United States, middle-income families feel neglected by policymakers but stru...
In both Canada and the United States, middle-income families feel neglected by policymakers but stru...
It is sometimes difficult to tell which group is more distressed about the purportedly deteriorating...
This article looks at the promise of the ‘New Middle Class’ (NMC) inherent in the neoliberal ideolog...
Journal ArticleFamily and security are both contested ground in Canada in the 1990s. The family and ...
This article looks at the promise of the ‘New Middle Class’ (NMC) inherent in the neoliberal ideolog...
Based on the varying views of power under neoliberalism, the literature draws divergent conclusions ...
This article examines the development of the 'troubled families' narrative that emerged following th...
Politicians across Canada’s political spectrum strive to position themselves as defenders of the mid...
This Open Space commentary will offer a response to the SI paper by Ana Vergara Del Solar, shedding ...
An increased focus on ‘family’ has developed as part of the social investment state in many countrie...
The global rise of a neoliberal ‘new politics of parenting’ discursively constructs parents in pover...
The chapter, "“Doing it all…and making it look easy!”: Yummy mummies, mompreneurs and the North Amer...
This dissertation centers on a Canadian welfare state institution dubbed by the author, Hawthorne Ho...
In the 2008 federal elections in Canada and The United States, conservative parties used class rheto...
In both Canada and the United States, middle-income families feel neglected by policymakers but stru...
In both Canada and the United States, middle-income families feel neglected by policymakers but stru...
It is sometimes difficult to tell which group is more distressed about the purportedly deteriorating...
This article looks at the promise of the ‘New Middle Class’ (NMC) inherent in the neoliberal ideolog...
Journal ArticleFamily and security are both contested ground in Canada in the 1990s. The family and ...
This article looks at the promise of the ‘New Middle Class’ (NMC) inherent in the neoliberal ideolog...
Based on the varying views of power under neoliberalism, the literature draws divergent conclusions ...
This article examines the development of the 'troubled families' narrative that emerged following th...
Politicians across Canada’s political spectrum strive to position themselves as defenders of the mid...
This Open Space commentary will offer a response to the SI paper by Ana Vergara Del Solar, shedding ...
An increased focus on ‘family’ has developed as part of the social investment state in many countrie...
The global rise of a neoliberal ‘new politics of parenting’ discursively constructs parents in pover...
The chapter, "“Doing it all…and making it look easy!”: Yummy mummies, mompreneurs and the North Amer...
This dissertation centers on a Canadian welfare state institution dubbed by the author, Hawthorne Ho...
In the 2008 federal elections in Canada and The United States, conservative parties used class rheto...