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Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-08-28T06:39:51Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241280738
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Authors:Barbara Levy Simon Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-08-21T07:07:28Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241273681
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Authors:FRANCESCO LARUFFA Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. Within the space of a few years, eco-social policies evolved from being endorsed by a marginal community of heterodox scholars to being established in mainstream circles. While this is a welcome development, it also raises questions among critical social policy scholars. How should an emancipatory eco-social policy look' Rather than specifying concrete policies, this article contributes to answering this question by discussing the relationship between eco-social policies and capitalism. The discourse of ‘sustainable welfare’ tends to problematise growth rather than capitalism, risking a technocratic co-optation by neoliberal elites. Recent attempts to provide empirically applicable ‘non-normative’ definitions of eco-social policies risk weakening the critical potential of sustainable welfare ideas, de-politicising global capitalism with its inherent inequalities and unsustainability. I argue that critical scholars should embrace a democratic, feminist, and anti-racist/anti-colonial eco-socialism as the normative horizon of eco-social policies; discuss challenges related to the realisation of this ideal; and propose an agenda for critical eco-social policy research. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-08-02T06:12:05Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241262733
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Authors:Zahid Mumtaz, Mulyadi Sumarto Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. The intricate interplay between formal and informal social protection within an insecurity welfare regime, and the resulting harm and suffering caused by conflicts, remain inadequately explored due to methodological, logistical, and ethical challenges. This study fills this research gap by empirically investigating the roles of formal and informal social protection in mitigating harm and suffering, which lead to insecurity in conflict-affected regions like Pakistan. Drawing on household perspectives obtained through semi-structured interviews, in the conflict-ridden city of Bajor – a conservative society marked by armed and tribal conflicts and a breakdown of welfare institutions – our findings underscore that both armed and tribal conflicts significantly exacerbate harm and suffering, necessitating social protection measures. However, prevailing formal and informal efforts, while limited, fail to adequately address these issues, particularly affecting gender dynamics and social network. People use the network to obtain informal social protection, but this brings exploitation, domination, and clientelism. In a conservative society therefore, social network may worsen harm and suffering caused by conflict leading to severe insecurity. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-07-26T08:26:14Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241262978
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Authors:CLAUDIA DI MATTEO Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This study builds on analyses of everyday professional practices to explore de-bordering and re-bordering processes in the field of gender-based violence (GBV). The concepts of de-bordering and re-bordering practices express the tensions arising from the conflictual roles taken on by civil society actors (CSAs) in their double vest of service delivery for the state and advocate for migrant women with a precarious legal status. Further, this study focuses on three types of CSAs: women-led NGOs, faith-based organizations, and other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) operating in two EU contexts, i.e., Sweden and Italy. The multi-study approach helps to bring to the forefront systems of knowledge and classifications that, on the one hand, are linked to the national sovereign power and its specific way of filtering people based on racialized and gendered socioeconomic categories and, on the other hand, produce spaces of resistance or negotiation of those categories within multiple forms of dominance. Ultimately, based on the empirical cases, it is argued that even though criticalities and limits expressed through re-bordering practices are highly present, these de-bordering practices manifest the efforts of CSAs to break down or transcend territorial borders and divisions with the ultimate goal of moving beyond legal entitlements, territorial boundaries, and nationalist ideologies. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-07-26T08:25:24Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241262782
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Authors:HEFIN GWILYM, DAVID BECK Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. There have been many Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilots worldwide and a large literature has emerged outlining mostly positive findings but also acknowledging that no government has implemented the policy. In June 2022 the Welsh Government launched the UK's most important UBI pilot to date with young adults who have been looked after by the statutory care system (referred to as ‘care leavers’). The pilot would be appraised by an ongoing rigorous evaluation process until 2025 with the results not fully known until 2027. However, even before the results of the evaluation are known, the Welsh Government has decided not to roll out a permanent UBI to care leavers after the pilot ends because of costs. We consider the implications of the Welsh pilot with special focus on continuing austerity and the cost-of-living crisis, and within the context of Welsh Government's commitment to the well-being of future generations. With another UBI-curious government deciding not to adopt it, it further undermines worldwide confidence in UBI as a credible policy. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-07-26T08:23:54Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241262727
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Authors:TRAVIS MILBURN, IFFATH UNISSA SYED Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. Gun violence is a unique, preventable problem that contributes to a significant burden of healthcare and social costs, disability, and death in the United States. To address gun violence, several surveillance technologies have been implemented in municipalities across the US which are facilitating the collection of large amounts of data with the aim of reducing the occurrence of gun violence and responding to such incidences more quickly. One tool is ShotSpotter®, a popular acoustic gunshot detection system deployed by police departments. There are, however, research gaps about the concerns of using this technology and, to our knowledge, very little discussion about the implications and its effect on vulnerable groups exists. Accordingly, in this article, we argue against the use of technologies such as ShotSpotter as current data show inconsistent results in reducing violence. We also suggest the potential for harm from such surveillance technology should be cautiously weighed, as it could exceed the benefits of using such technology, thereby warranting further examination and research. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-07-26T08:23:34Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241262726
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Authors:ORLA SMITH, SURYIA NAYAK Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. Critical Social Policy (CSP) proudly launches the Journal’s Living Activism Section. This co-produced introduction to the Living Activism section of CSP, includes the ongoing impact of the CSP Solidarity Fund, lessons from the 2023 CSP gathering ‘Learning with Solidarity Funded Activist Groups’ and an account by the Solidarity Funded activists Women and Digital Inclusion (WODIN). The Living Activism section of CSP is rooted in and continues to grow in the soil of activist’s situated knowledge. What is clear is that the ‘critical’ of critical social policy happens at the grassroots. The aims of the Living Activism section of CSP are focussed on drawing out the learning from the lived experience of activist work, including the inherent challenges, tensions and victories of resistance and transformation for social justice. The Living Activism section of CSP is an integral part of decolonisation. We are clear that to decolonise does not mean to diversify or increase variety, rather it is a questioning and taking action to redress which actors are privileged and placed at the centre. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-06-03T08:49:30Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241255474
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Authors:Anna Ross Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-24T07:41:06Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241254763
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Authors:Natalia Farmer Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-22T08:43:37Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241254760
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Authors:DAVE COWAN, KIANA BOROUMAND Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. In this article, we discuss the changing modes of provision of English Universities’ halls of residence from University provision to a complex marketplace in which private provision dominates. We frame our analysis around five themes familiar to discussions of privatisations of public sector institutions: financialisation, affordability, infrastructure, regulation, and partnerships. We draw on our original research, which comprises a survey of 50 universities, readings of the corporate reports of the leading providers, and seven key stakeholder interviews. This data enables us to illustrate concerns about the effects on students and the University sector in England as a result of the shift in mode of provision. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-22T07:36:54Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241249694
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Authors:Yimeng Du Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-20T10:08:00Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241254773
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Authors:Rachel Fyson Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-20T10:07:20Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241254758
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Authors:Sarah Donnelly Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-20T10:07:04Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241254714
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Authors:Norman Ginsburg Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-17T05:06:41Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241254770
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Authors:ASHLEE CHRISTOFFERSEN, LEAH McCABE Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This article synthesises the findings from two studies on the operationalisation of intersectionality in Scotland: one in equality policy and NGOs, and the other in domestic abuse policy-making. Drawing upon Ashlee Christoffersen's framework of applied concepts of intersectionality, this article analyses the competing and contradictory ways that intersectionality is institutionalised in Scottish policy and practice. It highlights the contestations and debates that arise when actors with varying understandings, agendas, and levels of political will attempt to apply intersectionality. We argue that dominant approaches to applying intersectionality in Scottish equality and domestic abuse policymaking are additive and superficial, a consequence of power inequalities shaping who has access to policymaking processes and institutions. Beyond the Scottish case, the article highlights key lessons concerning how to operationalise intersectionality in policy and practice in ways that are truer to its original conceptualisation in Black feminism. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-05-13T07:54:07Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241249696
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Authors:SOFI JANSSON-KESHAVARZ, KARIN KRIFORS, VANNA NORDLING Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This article explores four Swedish municipalities which have reacted differently to legislation aiming to regulate a ‘fair and equal’ distribution of refugees: from barefaced rejection to the advocacy of refugee settlement as an investment in future citizens. Interviews with people who work with settlement show that housing is made central in different municipal strategies and creates an unequal landscape of evictability for refugees depending on where they are placed. Temporary and conditional residence permits for refugees, which have been made standard in this time of temporary legality, are simultaneously dependent on settlement strategies in municipalities: housing and access to jobs determine whether you can stay or stay with your family. This deportability of refugees is what is at stake. Yet access to housing is continuously treated as a mundane ‘service’: both in the categorical denial of housing and in the evaluation of what can qualify refugees to deserve settlement. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-04-23T08:13:27Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241240379
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Authors:CHRISTOPHER CUNNINGHAM, COLIN SAMSON Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. British educational ideas and policies towards working-class and minority youth show continuous preoccupations with social status and preparation for labour. In examining this, we link educational discourses and practices in England from the Charity Schools to the contemporary higher education policy Widening Participation (WP). We argue that WP is heir to successive educational programmes that explicitly fit poor and marginalised youth to labour and, contrary to its asserted aims, legitimates social and economic hierarchies. Using major government reports, promotional narratives and data on university expansion and tuition fees, we argue that the ‘disadvantaged student’ in WP is a currency for higher education institutions and student debt is the price of a ticket to ‘success’ within an imagined neoliberal meritocracy. The novelty is that whereas in the past, the costs of subaltern education were covered by philanthropy, today's ‘disadvantaged students’ indebt themselves to maintain their positions in society. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-04-02T06:30:06Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241240381
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Authors:HEATHER E. DEAL, GAYNOR I. YANCEY Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This article examines the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA) and its connection to abortion rights and religious freedom in the United States. The RFMA was passed in response to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion to the Dobbs v. Jackson case which revoked federal abortion rights and suggested the Supreme Court reevaluate similar decisions based on due process, like Obergefell which guaranteed the federal right to same-sex marriage. This article showcases how the passage of the RFMA is a masterclass in U.S. policymaking and discusses the implications of the RFMA as well as considerations should Obergefell go the way of Dobbs. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-03-28T07:16:45Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241240388
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Authors:Alice Bloch, Katharine Quarmby Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This article focusses on Gypsy and Traveller communities who live on local authority managed sites around Great Britain. The subject of sites has come to the fore in the last couple of years, as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 criminalised roadside living and therefore nomadic ways of life. Using the concept of environmental racism, the article explores the proximity of sites to environmental hazards including main roads, sewage works, industry and refuse and recycling centres. The mapping of all Gypsy and Traveller sites in England, Scotland and Wales - permanent sites (291) and transit sites (60) - shows that a sizeable proportion of sites present a risk to residents’ health due to their geographical proximity to pollutants and that many are infested with vermin and flies and separated from settled communities which can result in isolation and exclusion. Case studies of Gypsy and Traveller sites shows that the location of sites is not just a historical legacy of racism as new sites are being placed in polluted and isolated areas. Sites are locally contested and racialised language and stereotypes are used to try and stop sites being placed in certain areas. Local authority planning departments are aware of the unsuitability of some site locations and their potential risk to health. However, local opposition and a homelessness crisis within the communities can leave Gypsy and Traveller people with little or no choice about site locations which can be in places that are polluted, on the margins and away from settled communities. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-02-27T07:06:03Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241229053
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Authors:Yanela Ndabula, Catriona Ida Macleod, Ulandi du Plessis, Sarah Moore Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. In 2017, Donald Trump signed the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), thereby reinstating the Global Gag Rule. The policy restricted all United States foreign funding from abortion-related activities. Little research reports the responses of recipients of this bilateral assistance. The study documents the South African government's responses to the PLGHA. We accessed Hansard parliamentary debates, interviewed four parliamentarians alongside one government official, and reviewed a USAID-funded initiative developed while the policy was in effect. We analysed the data using interpretive content analysis through a global social policy and gendered coloniality lens. Our research documents silence, ignorance, avoidance, and possible over-interpretation of the PLGHA within the South African government. The colonialist politics of global redistribution created the grounds for gendered regulation, resulting in a fundamental undermining of reproductive rights. Ironically, the solution – advocacy and parliamentarian briefing regarding sexual and reproductive issues – is generally led by civil society, the bodies weakened by the PLGHA. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-02-16T05:44:22Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241229046
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Authors:Joanne Hunt Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. The UK government's recent announcement that the highly controversial Work Capability Assessment (WCA) will likely be abolished leaves questions of what precisely will emerge in its place. This commentary revisits a construct central to the attempted justification of the WCA, that of ‘common health problems’, which may well continue to leave a legacy in delineating purported ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ impairment, ill-health and related disability. After outlining the politically strategic application of this construct in social policy, concerns are raised for long Covid. In particular, the risk of long Covid following the trajectory of another post-infection diagnosis, myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome, is discussed. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-02-15T06:07:57Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183241229050
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Authors:KARINE CÔTÉ-BOUCHER, SUSAN BRAEDLEY Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. This article makes three crucial, related arguments. First, most European analyses of immigration and social welfare fail to consider how these policies intersect to shape the social reproduction of populations, instead sticking to notions of welfare chauvinism, social citizenship, and deservingness. Second, welfare/immigration analyses are usually set at the national level, but subnational comparisons can challenge tidy welfare state regime categorizations, revealing both nuance and policy opportunities. Third, a focus on social reproduction regimes that includes welfare and immigration policies reveals how jurisdictions border the extraction of social reproductive labour, with impacts on who gets in and under which conditions, and on the distribution of paid and unpaid social reproductive work within immigrant and established families in Canada. Developing our feminist border analysis, we illustrate our approach through a comparative analysis of Quebec and Ontario to show how social reproductive borders extract care labour and from whom, under diverging policy regimes. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-01-04T08:22:35Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183231219187
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Authors:Alexander Paulsson, Max Koch, Martin Fritz Abstract: Critical Social Policy, Ahead of Print. The environmental crisis, increased inequality and an aging population are likely to increase the demand for welfare services in the OECD countries. Economic growth has long been seen as a solution to these problems. However, this is no longer the case. Very few countries have managed to decouple economic performance from ecological footprints and greenhouse gas emissions. Even where this has been achieved, the rates of emission-decline are too slow to match the Paris climate targets. Consequently, interdisciplinary research is key to probe how welfare systems may cope with these challenges, and how welfare provision and economic growth may be decoupled. By drawing on the basic human needs approach and a unique set of data, we explore the social and ecological performances of OECD countries relative to their economic performances. While high-income countries display diminishing welfare returns as economic performance is not improving the satisfaction of health-related needs, the lower-income countries might yield significant surplus if moving to the level of moderate-income countries. However, the satisfaction of autonomy-related needs is so far strongly coupled to economic performance and thus much harder to achieve in an ecologically sustainable way. Citation: Critical Social Policy PubDate: 2024-01-04T07:16:37Z DOI: 10.1177/02610183231218971
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