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Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state

The consolidation of the British welfare state in the mid‐twentieth century did not only coincide with the systematic dismantling of the British Empire but was significantly shaped by the empire that preceded it. The story that tends to be told about the welfare state, however, situates it firmly wi...

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Autor principal: Bhambra, Gurminder K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9306532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35064978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12896
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spelling pubmed-93065322022-07-28 Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state Bhambra, Gurminder K. Br J Sociol 2020 Bjs Annual Public Lecture The consolidation of the British welfare state in the mid‐twentieth century did not only coincide with the systematic dismantling of the British Empire but was significantly shaped by the empire that preceded it. The story that tends to be told about the welfare state, however, situates it firmly within the national context. Such understandings go on to shape contemporary political debates centered on questions of entitlement and concerns over legitimacy. In this article, I reassess the standard accounts of taxation and welfare that are claimed to be central to the construction of the nation to demonstrate how taking the empire into account offers the possibility of a different political response to the challenges we are faced with today. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-01-22 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9306532/ /pubmed/35064978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12896 Text en © 2021 The Authors. The British Journal of Sociology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of London School of Economics and Political Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title_short Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9306532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35064978
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12896
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