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July 24, 2026Social InclusionOpen Access

Ecology of Abandonment: Non‐Take‐Up of Social Rights as a Capitalist Critique

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FLFrédérique Leresche

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Overview

Ethnographic analysis investigates non-take-up of social rights, suggesting implications for welfare state critique.

Key Points

  • The analysis examines how non-take-up of social rights serves as a critique of the welfare state.
  • Conducted ethnographic research in Switzerland.
  • Utilized the conceptual framework of ecology of abandonment.
  • Investigated practices of refusal and distancing from institutions.
  • Non-take-up is framed as a socially situated response to conditional compassion.
  • People view social policies as mechanisms of re-commodification and moral control.
  • Care is increasingly directed towards informal moral economies, highlighting accessibility disparities.

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Frédérique Leresche (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a630255395161722cd16b3fhttps://doi.org/10.17645/si.12063
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