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Social Policy - A Critical and Intersectional Analysis (Paperback)
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Social Policy - A Critical and Intersectional Analysis (Paperback)
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Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and
social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics,
sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the
COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a
resurgence of social justice activism at both the local and the
transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist,
anti-racist and postcolonial/decolonial thinking has become
relatively marginal to core social policy theory, while other
critical approaches - around disability, sexuality, migration, age
and the environment - have found recognition only selectively. This
book provides a much needed new analysis of this complex landscape,
drawing together critical approaches in social policy with
intersectionality and political economy. Fiona Williams
contextualizes contemporary social policies not only in the global
crisis of finance capitalism but also in the interconnected global
crises of care, ecology and racialized borders. These shape and are
shaped at national scale by the intersecting dynamics of family,
nation, work and nature. Through critical assessment of these
realities, the book probes the ethical, prefigurative and
transformative possibilities for a future welfare commons. This
significant intervention will animate social policy thinking,
teaching and research. It will be essential reading for anyone
wanting to understand the complexities of social policy for the
years ahead.
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