What is (successfully) “social” in global social policy and how does it diffuse?

IF 1.5 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1177/14680181221079099

A. Kaasch

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Dear GSP readers, This issue consists of eight articles, a Forum entitled “COVID-19: Lessons for genderresponsive recovery and transformation” and a Digest covering the fields of global social governance, global social policies (redistribution, regulation, rights), health, employment and work, social protection, education, environment, migration and gender, but with an ongoing emphasis on the Covid-19 pandemic. As usual, this editorial briefly presents the discussions and contributions to this issue, but also hints at a number of recently published books in the field. The insights and discussions from our last issue (GSP 21.3) – a special issue on Covid-19 – are continued in the GSP Forum edited by Sarah Cook and Silke Staab, as well as in an article by Zuñiga-Fajuri et al., with a particular focus on gendered and feminist perspectives. The Forum contains short reflections by feminist researchers and advocates from civil society, academia, and intergovernmental agencies. They explore the role feminist activism and ‘policy entrepreneurship’ has played in responding to crisis and driving a more forward-looking gender transformative agenda. Among the insights we get from these contributions are the following: Covid-19 has highlighted gender impacts and inequalities in relation not only to the pandemic but also the crises arising from various measures to prevent the virus from spreading. Activism on genderrelated needs and rights rapidly intensified at the start of the pandemic, drawing on existing evidence and transnational networks. Particularly interesting are the considerations of what transformative, sustainable gender-sensitive policies could be like, linking feminist arguments about care and the environment. In a related vein, the chapter by Warria Ajwang’ in “The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems” (Baikady et al., 2021) describes Covid-19 as a “catalyst for transformative socio-political activism for accountability and justice”. It highlights the potential of the regularization of migrant work for accessing social rights (irrespective of residence, gender, and status). That fits well with the GSP Digest’s comment on the new 1079099 GSP0010.1177/14680181221079099Global Social PolicyKaasch editorial2022

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在全球社会政策中，什么是（成功的）“社会”？它是如何扩散的？

亲爱的普惠制读者，本期共有八篇文章，一个题为“新冠肺炎：性别响应性复苏和转型的教训”的论坛和一个涵盖全球社会治理、全球社会政策（再分配、监管、权利）、健康、就业和工作、社会保护、教育、环境、移民和性别等领域的摘要，但同时持续强调新冠肺炎大流行。和往常一样，这篇社论简要介绍了对这一问题的讨论和贡献，但也暗示了该领域最近出版的一些书籍。Sarah Cook和Silke Staab编辑的《普惠制论坛》以及Zuñiga-Fajuri等人的一篇文章继续介绍了我们上一期（普惠制21.3）——关于新冠肺炎的特刊——的见解和讨论，特别关注性别和女权主义观点。论坛包含了来自民间社会、学术界和政府间机构的女权主义研究人员和倡导者的简短思考。他们探讨了女权主义激进主义和“政策创业”在应对危机和推动更具前瞻性的性别变革议程方面所发挥的作用。我们从这些贡献中得到的见解如下：新冠肺炎突出了性别影响和不平等，不仅与疫情有关，还与防止病毒传播的各种措施引起的危机有关。在新冠疫情开始时，利用现有证据和跨国网络，关于性别相关需求和权利的活动迅速加剧。特别有趣的是，考虑到变革性、可持续的性别敏感政策可能是什么样的，将女权主义关于护理和环境的论点联系起来。与此相关的是，Warria Ajwang在《全球社会问题帕尔格雷夫手册》（Baikady et al.，2021）中的章节将新冠肺炎描述为“促进问责制和正义的变革性社会政治行动的催化剂”。它强调了移民工作正规化对获得社会权利（不分居住地、性别和地位）的潜力。这与《普惠制文摘》对新的1079099 GSP0010.1177/14680181221079099全球社会政策Kaasch社论2022的评论非常吻合

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Global Social Policy POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.20

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances the understanding of the impact of globalisation processes upon social policy and social development on the one hand, and the impact of social policy upon globalisation processes on the other hand. The journal analyses the contributions of a range of national and international actors, both governmental and non-governmental, to global social policy and social development discourse and practice. Global Social Policy publishes scholarly policy-oriented articles and reports that focus on aspects of social policy and social and human development as broadly defined in the context of globalisation be it in contemporary or historical contexts.