Who Can Tell A Working-Class Story?: Examining the representational limits of class in I, Daniel Blake (2016) and beyond

In this article, the authors revisit an argument made in a 2019 suggesting that not much has changed representational field, or ‘narrative economies’ (Gibbs and Lehtonen 2019), within which film I, Daniel Blake was originally released - despite ongoing Covid-19 crisis intensification of both existing new forms precarity poverty intervening years.