'Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns

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'Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns

This article examines the use of personal narratives in two tabloid newspaper campaigns against a controversial welfare reform popularly known as the ‘bedroom tax’. It aims firstly to evaluate whether the personal narratives operate as political testimony to challenge government accounts of welfare...

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Main Author:	Birks, Jen
Format:	Article
Published:	SAGE 2016
Subjects:	personal narratives human interest stories testimony victim-witnesses welfare reform campaigning press political emotion progressive populism instrumentalisation
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36208/

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