Title: Anthropological Perspectives on the 'activated' welfare state
PhD Supervisor: Anna-Riikka Kauppinen
Expected completion Date: 2026
Centered on an ethnography of a contemporary space where unemployment coaching and social integration measures are delivered, my thesis investigates how 20 years of "activation strategies" in welfare policy have influenced the ways in which the state deals with its temporarily unwaged citizens. Vice-versa, I also focus on the ways other social forces have shaped the content of these activation programs, focusing in particular on contemporary innovation-ecosystems and their entrepreneurialist discourses and practices.
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Western Welfare States
Anthropology of Entrepreneurship