Critical Social Policy最新文献

{"title":"Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK","authors":"S. Monro, Sean Saifa Wall, K. Wood","doi":"10.1177/02610183231175055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231175055","url":null,"abstract":"Intersex people suffer human rights abuses and harms because of non-consensual early medical interventions. They have historically been rendered outside of welfare regimes and equality, diversity and inclusion policies, or forcibly subsumed within sex-binaried institutions. This article draws on critical intersex studies to interrogate the policy silences and collusions that have taken place regarding intersex people's suffering. Using Ireland and England as case studies, we show that current formations of equality and diversity policies are inadequate in relation to intersex issues. Analysis of policy documents from Ireland and the UK using Bacchi's method reveals the erasure and/or marginalisation of intersex people, despite some stated commitments to gender and sexual equality. We conclude that there is a pressing need for social policy work around intersex issues and for reform to support intersex people's equality, diversity and inclusion.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41601901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality","authors":"C. Loughnane, C. Kelleher, Claire Edwards","doi":"10.1177/02610183231169195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231169195","url":null,"abstract":"Ireland has become an international exemplar in the use of citizens’ assemblies to determine policy. Globally, deliberative fora seek to mitigate concerns of a democratic crisis, but they also may address the ‘care crisis’, where politics-as-normal seems unable, or unwilling, to address citizens’ care needs. Drawing on Tronto's (2013) call for a caring democracy in which citizens take their responsibilities to care with one another, this paper examines the potential for deliberative processes to deliberate ‘with’ as well as ‘about’ care and to expand current care work debates. Using Barnes’ (2012) ‘care full’ deliberation as an analytic framework, we document and interrogate the process and outcomes of Ireland's Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality (CAGE) (2020–21), particularly how it understood care work and responded to care workers’ needs. We then reflect on the potential for citizen deliberation to realise better caring outcomes for all citizens.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"697 - 717"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42311023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Redress: Ireland's institutions and Transitional Justice by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke and James M Smith (eds.)","authors":"Louise Brangan","doi":"10.1177/02610183231157754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231157754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"366 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45376585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The Politics of Ailment: A New Approach to Care by Minna Zechner, Lena Näre, Olli Karsio, Antero Olakivi, Liina Sointu, Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania and Tiina Vaittinen","authors":"Kathleen Lynch","doi":"10.1177/02610183231157764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231157764","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"369 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41938303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Three Roads to the Welfare State by Bryan Fanning","authors":"J. Finnerty","doi":"10.1177/02610183231157366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231157366","url":null,"abstract":"Brian Fanning’s book is an intellectual history of key (mainly European) thinkers’ views on the place of social policy in modern society. His particular focus is on three central intellectual and ideological approaches – liberalism, social democracy, and Christian democracy, and their mutual influence in addressing social problems. This account is interspersed with a history of European Welfare State politics, institutions and interventions. The book opens with an exploration of the intellectual foundations of laissez faire via a series of key texts and (mainly English) contexts – a method replicated in subsequent chapters. The differing understandings of poverty and poverty alleviation are insightfully explored, for example distinguishing between the punitive views of Joseph Townsend and the more humanistic approach of Adam Smith. The chapter on Utopian Socialism concentrates on Robert Owen and the cooperative movement, the latter seen as running alongside and ameliorating, rather than replacing, the excesses of laissez-faire capitalism. Other thinkers discussed include William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, Mary Wollstonecraft, and B. F. Skinner, and the paternalistic strain in much of this thinking is deftly highlighted. The chapter following discusses the shift from free market to reform liberalism, albeit under the sign of a severely restricted franchise. Fanning here concentrates on the works of Bentham and John Stuart Mill, and on Chadwick’s influence on the new Poor Law and the Factory Acts, as they grappled with the limitations of laissez-faire in addressing the needs of an emerging industrial and urban society. Book Reviews","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"359 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49066066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch","authors":"L. Dodson","doi":"10.1177/02610183231157761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231157761","url":null,"abstract":"Black authors and the Global South into the epistemological centre of scholarship that describes and resists coloniality. In section four, the authors address how different identities may be deployed to support or challenge the workings of whiteness in various international contexts, including the U.S., Caribbean, UK, and South Africa. In the fifth section, the authors analyze the practice of whiteness in everyday life, and its operation within institutional structures and the state. Finally, the last section opens up the space to discuss challenges, tensions and debates among scholars on their understanding of whiteness. This book provides a good start at circumventing the common pitfalls of whiteness studies (such as favoring scholarship from the Global North, and essentializing Black, White, Indigenous, other racialized people back into the orbit of whiteness) and interrupting the binary ways in which the idea of whiteness is taken up in the popular imagination. Indeed, much of the decolonizing literature remains trapped in the black-white/oppressor-oppressed binary and locked within Eurocentric ways of thinking. Hence, the core strength of this collection is to bring a global perspective through voices and locations other than Western Europe, the UK and US, and to deliberately link scholarship on whiteness back to the broader debate on how race, power, politics and oppression operate. It does this by putting, at front and centre, not only past colonizing processes, but present forms of neocolonialism, and political and social justice struggles around the globe, including the emergence (or re-emergence) of popularist politics and other forms of polarization. The extent to which the authors in this volume achieve this varies, which is not surprising because whiteness and white supremacy are monoliths of such longstanding that even scholars and activists who resist it struggle, in the words of Cross and Fine who wrote the book’s Epilogue, that it is ‘hard to see where the fugitive pathways to radical transformation might be carved’ (p. 353). Notwithstanding these difficulties, this text is an invaluable help on that journey.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"364 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44977504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler and Delphine Peace","authors":"Steve Rogowski","doi":"10.1177/02610183231158909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231158909","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"361 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48401624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness by Shona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen (eds)","authors":"J. Y. Yee, Gary C. Dumbrill","doi":"10.1177/02610183231157755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231157755","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"363 - 364"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47829347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating multiple pandemics: A critical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services.","authors":"Tara Mantler, C Nadine Wathen, Caitlin Burd, Jennifer C D MacGregor, Isobel McLean, Jill Veenendaal","doi":"10.1177/02610183221088461","DOIUrl":"10.1177/02610183221088461","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 illustrated what governments can do to mobilise against a global threat. Despite the strong governmental response to COVID-19 in Canada, another 'pandemic', gender-based violence (GBV), has been causing grave harm with generally insufficient policy responses. Using interpretive description methodology, 26 interviews were conducted with shelter staff and 5 focus groups with 24 executive directors (EDs) from GBV service organizations in Ontario, Canada. Five main themes were identified and explored, namely that: (1) there are in fact four pandemics at play; (2) the interplay of pandemics amplified existing systemic weaknesses; (3) the key role of informal partnerships and community support, (4) temporary changes in patterns of funding allocation; and (5) exhaustion as a consequence of addressing multiple and concurrent pandemics. Implications and recommendations for researchers, policy makers, and the GBV sector are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"29-50"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9047594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42985509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate.","authors":"Michael Orton,&nbsp;Sudipa Sarkar","doi":"10.1177/02610183221091553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221091553","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Covid-19 pandemic has seen emerging debate about a possible shift in 'anti-welfare commonsense' i.e. the orthodoxy previously described in this journal as solidifying negative public attitudes towards 'welfare'. While a shift in attitudes might be ascribed to the circumstances of the crisis it would still be remarkable for such a strongly established orthodoxy to have changed quite so rapidly. It is appropriate, therefore, to reflect on whether the 'anti-welfare' orthodoxy was in fact as unequivocal as claimed? To address this question, challenges to the established orthodoxy that were emerging pre-pandemic are examined along with the most recently available survey data. This leads to discussion of broader issues relating to understanding attitudes: methodology; 'messiness' and ambivalence of attitudes; attitudes and constructions of deservingness; and following or leading opinion. It is argued that the 'anti-welfare' orthodoxy has always been far more equivocal than claimed, with consequent implications for anti-poverty action and re-setting debate.</p>","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"3-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9841455/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9229777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}