Social policy : a critical and intersectional analysis / Fiona Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Fiona, Professor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy--21st century.

Social policy.

Social problems--History--21st century.

Social problems.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 299 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021.

Summary:

"A leading figure in the field offers her view on key questions for social policy and its future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

Continuities and changes

Structure of the book

pt. I ORIENTATION

2. A Critical And Intersectional Approach To Social Policy

Introduction

Remarginalization of the social

An intersectional approach for social policy

A critical approach to social policy

Conclusion

3. Intersecting Global Crises And Dynamics Of Family, Nation, Work And Nature: A Framework For Analysis

Neoliberalism, welfare and austerity

Frame 1 Intersecting global crises

Frame 2 The intersections of family, nation, work and nature

pt. II ANALYSIS

4. Unsettling/Settling Family-Nation-Work-Nature: From Austerity To Pandemic

1. Work, family and nation: the depletion and devaluation of care

2. Bordering practices in the post-racial settling

3. Necropolitics, nation and nature

4. Not all of a piece

5. The Social Relations Of Welfare: Subjects, Agents, Activists

The turn to agency

The dynamics of agency

Agency in the social relations of welfare

Logics of contestation and resistance

6. Intersections In The Transnational, Social And Political Economy Of Care

A story of changes and continuities

Micro-intersections layered in close encounters

Institutional intersections at the meso-scale

The transnational political and social economy of care

Conclusion: towards care-ethical global justice

pt. III PRAXIS

7. Towards An Eco-Welfare Commons: Intersections Of Political Ethics And Prefigurative Practices

Ethics grounded in the struggles of care, the environment and decoloniality

Translating ethics into practical eco-social politics

Towards the eco-welfare commons

8. Conclusion: Multidimensional Thinking For Social Policy

Reconstituting the knowledge base of social policy

Relational knowledge and practices

Reconstruction and reimagination in post-Covid-19 futures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Williams, Fiona, Professor. Social policy

ISBN:

9781509540389

1509540385

9781509540396

1509540393

OCLC:

1203136707