Not Another Hillbilly Salvation: Reading Welfare Assessment As Confession In Five Appalachian Counties
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Rebecca Jane Baird (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
- Advisor
- Kim Q. Hall
Abstract: With the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRA) in 1996, the welfare system became more invasive through requirements for multiple assessments. In this thesis, I analyze seventeen qualitative interviews with welfare participants and workers in five Appalachian counties to examine the role of assessment processes in creating deserving and undeserving welfare subjectivities. Combining postmodern theory and qualitative research, I ask the question: how do local policies and practices produce "the Appalachian welfare participant"?
Not Another Hillbilly Salvation: Reading Welfare Assessment As Confession In Five Appalachian Counties
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Baird, R. (2006). Not Another Hillbilly Salvation: Reading Welfare Assessment As Confession In Five Appalachian Counties. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
- Language: English
- Date: 2006
- Keywords
- personal responsibility, welfare, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRA), Appalachia, assessment