This article offers a reading of Ken Loach’s 2016 film I, Daniel Blake, a fictionalised account of experiences of the UK welfare system in conditions of austerity. We consider, firstly, the significant challenge the film poses to dominant figurations of welfare recipients under austerity, through a focus on vulnerability to state processes. We follow with a reading of some of the film’s interventions in relation to reciprocity, drawing on the important trajectories of care, community and resistance that the film renders visible through the collective stories of the major characters. Finally, we conclude with reflections on citizenship, subject narratives and alternative imaginaries of ‘deservingness’. Our article offers an ‘against the grain’ reading (hooks, 1996; Wearing, 2013) of the film, highlighting some of the radical possibilities of the more minor moments, character arcs and subject positionalities within the film’s central narrative of Daniel’s experiences in the shadow of the steadily crumbling welfare state.

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I, Daniel Blake (2016)：紧缩政治中的脆弱性、关怀和公民身份

本文提供了对肯·洛奇 (Ken Loach) 2016 年电影《我，丹尼尔·布莱克》(I, Daniel Blake) 的解读，这是一部虚构的英国福利制度在紧缩条件下的经历。首先，我们认为这部电影通过关注国家程序的脆弱性，对紧缩下福利领取者的主要形象构成了重大挑战。我们随后阅读了电影中与互惠相关的一些干预措施，借鉴了电影通过主要角色的集体故事所呈现的关怀、社区和抵抗的重要轨迹。最后，我们以对公民身份、主体叙事和“应得”的替代想象的反思来结束。我们的文章提供了对这部电影的“反常规”解读（hooks，1996 年；Wearing，2013 年），