Former CSP Editorial Collective member China Mills discusses death by welfare in podcast

In 2024, the podcast series 'Material Crimes', produced by the channel Surviving Society, published an episode with former CSP Editorial Collective member China Mills entitled "Death by Welfare". In the episode, Mills, in collaboration with activists and scholars Stella Dadzie, Imogen Day, John Pring, and Rick Burgess, describes "the grinding bureaucratic crimes committed as the DWP sought to force disabled people into work."

This follows on from an article authored by Mills and Pring, and published by CSP in 2023, in which they "analyse how deaths related to the benefits system are an outcome of slow violence, where both the delay between policies and their harmful effects, as well as the more active use of delay tactics, are central to how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) weaponise time as a strategy to avoid accountability and deny justice." As Mills and Pring conclude their article, they suggest that while "some may ascribe people's deaths to flaws in a system that needs reform, others may see them as endemic to a system that needs dismantling and creating anew, with disabled people, and the analysis developed through lived experience, at the core."

This article is open access and can be read in full here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02610183231187588

Please click here to listen to the podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0zkzD4buHDNr93bemGtf8b