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Ontology, belief and the politics of sanction: An application of Badiou’s Theory of the Event

DOI: 10.1177/1463499618809243

Keywords: activism,Badiou,event,Germany,mourning,sanctions,welfare state

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In this article, I apply Alain Badiou's theory of the event to make sense of the beliefs of an anti-sanction activist in Germany. Sanctions are deductions to unemployment benefits imposed by jobs counselors on their unemployed clients. Ethnographic research with Renate shows how her beliefs about the welfare state and her own personal life are examined by her as conditions for the abolition of sanctions in Germany, which is considered here as an event within Badiou’s ontological framework

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