Reassembling and Cutting the Social with Health Insurance

Ossandón, José

doi:10.1080/17530350.2013.869243

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“…When vouchers were first introduced they were initially capped at £100 and restricted only to existing customers. This was part of a strategy designed to train or 'sow' custom (Ossandon, 2014) enabling the company to limit risk by 're-serving' existing customers as a cheaper and safer option than finding new ones. This was also in evidence in strategies to incentivize customers to renew.…”

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Devising Consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending

McFall¹

2019

Preprint

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Devising Consumption explores the vital role played by thefinancial service industries in enabling the poor to consumeover the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requiresmeans, but these industries also offered practical marketingdevices that captured, captivated and enticed poorconsumers. The role of these devices has been poorlyunderstood both in the social sciences and in businessstudies and marketing. The book advances the case for a morepragmatic understanding of how ordinary, dull, everydayconsumption is arranged, and offers an alternative toorthodox approaches.

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Section: Figure 47 C1970s Provident Marketingmentioning

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Devising Consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending

McFall¹

2019

Preprint

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“…This article proposes an analysis of these public policies as an assemblage, using an ethnographic approach. This perspective of understanding public policies as assemblages has been used to analyze several areas of state‐run work (Ariztía, 2017; Entwistle & Slater, 2014; Farías & Bender, 2010; Ossandón, 2014; Pinker & Harvey, 2018; Tironi & Manríquez, 2019; Ureta, 2015), including education (Viczko & Riveros, 2015). Our purpose is not to validate again the use of this conceptual framework to understand public action but rather to account for the complexity, problems, and challenges entailed in the group of Chilean policies being promoted to achieve the inclusion of SEN students or those with disabilities.…”

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Assembling Inclusion: Infrastructure, Regime, and Coordination Practices in Chilean Educational Policy

Palacios¹,

Larrazabal²,

Berwart³

2020

Latin American Policy

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Este artículo analiza las políticas educativas chilenas orientadas hacia la inclusión, a través de un enfoque etnográfico. Describimos y analizamos las características que conforman la infraestructura de la política como un conjunto de reglas que establecen cómo las escuelas deben implementar una educación inclusiva para los estudiantes con necesidades educativas especiales. La exploración de lo que llamamos la infraestructura de la política nos permite mostrar las formas en que el régimen se territorializa, así como los numerosos procesos de coordinación que surgen para mantener o desterritorializar el régimen de la política establecida. Nos basamos en la observación participante, en entrevistas y análisis de documentos para describir cómo las prácticas de las escuelas están entrelazadas con la infraestructura de una política no libre de contradicciones. Nuestro principal hallazgo es que no hay una política terminada para la educación inclusiva sino un ensamblaje de políticas que siempre están cambiando y en el que diversos actores, tanto humanos como no humanos, están permanentemente negociando sus posibilidades de agencia y de poder.

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“…There is a substantial body of work that considers insurance as collective or socio-material. Ossandón (2014: 291) observes, for example, that insurance is ‘relational work’ and ‘… routinely mixes areas of social life commonly seen as opposing each other’. For French and Kneale (2015), insurance manifests ‘bricolage qualities’.…”

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Underinsurance as adaptation: Household agency in places of marketisation and financialisation

Booth

Kendal

2019

Environ Plan A

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The underinsurance of property is pervasively and persuasively promoted as an indicator of risk and riskiness and, in Western nations, is assumed to be aligned with socio-economic disadvantage. Yet, the solution – in its most simple form, buying more insurance – lacks critical interrogation of what the problem actually is. To understand underinsurance better, we map house and contents underinsurance across two municipalities in Australia’s island state of Tasmania, and observe that the existing delineation of disadvantage and advantage between these two places is muted in relation to insurance – underinsurance does not straightforwardly map onto disadvantage. We provide an alternative explanation: that underinsurance is not a risk for households per se and does not represent riskiness on behalf of these households. Rather, it is indicative of household agency that produces place-specified responses within the processes of financialisation and marketisation. We observe that the growth in renting, driven in part by housing financialisation, is associated with property underinsurance. The history of renting as temporary and marginal informs renter decision making not to insure, and thus current financialised changes in housing co-produce rather than ameliorate underinsurance. We also conclude that in negating or resisting insurance marketisation, households garner everyday financial and material adaptative capacity by underinsuring.

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Reassembling and Cutting the Social with Health Insurance

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Devising Consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending

Devising Consumption: cultural economies of insurance, credit and spending

Assembling Inclusion: Infrastructure, Regime, and Coordination Practices in Chilean Educational Policy

Underinsurance as adaptation: Household agency in places of marketisation and financialisation

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