Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden

Drawing on a framework offered by Bauman and literature from disability studies other sociological areas, this article argues that the experience of austerity for disabled people in Sweden is one bureaucratic violence, shaped disablism. The aims to broaden conceptualisation violence include disablist within its purview. It utilises fieldwork data interviews with explore how welfare bureaucracy isolates dehumanises people. also examines Swedish bureaucracies obscure impact population. Due convergence neoliberalism Sweden, exploration opens up important questions regarding Social Darwinist elements neoliberal theory. Ultimately, useful concept sociologists two reasons: it sheds technocratic veneer connects lived experiences reform lethal consequences austerity.