SSC Seminar Series: Krystle Maki, Queen's University

Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 12h30-14h00, Mac Corry D411
Krystle Maki, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Queen's University

From Social Work to Agents of Surveillance: caseworkers' perspectives on welfare surveillance within ‘Ontario Works’

Drawing on the qualitative in-depth interviews from her doctoral research with OW caseworkers, Maki examines, from a human perspective, how caseworkers negotiate welfare surveillance. In other words, by focussing on the people behind the OW surveillance “apparatus”, she examines how policy is translated into the every day. In this way, the seminar explores how neoliberal subjectivity shapes caseworkers – and therefore, casework.

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