The Politics of Welfare in the Global South (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dey Biswas, Sattwick; Pellissery, Sony; Sambo, Cleopas Gabriel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive reference for conducting political analyses of emerging welfare systems in the Global South. It places a central emphasis on decolonizing social policy literature by developing empirically grounded theories and concepts illuminating societies in both the Global South and North. These case studies contribute to theoretical generalizations capable of explaining universal principles that are relevant to both the Global South and North.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197698709
• Artikelnr.: 72259442

Autorenporträt

Sattwick Dey Biswas is an Independent Researcher. In 2019, he earned his doctorate at the School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany. He published his doctoral thesis as a book titled Land Acquisition and Compensation in India: Mysteries of Valuation (2020). Dey Biswas is the coordinator of the History of Economic Thought Working Group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's Young Scholars Initiative. Currently, he is working in Land Policy, Social Policy, and Political Economy. Cleopas Gabriel Sambois a postdoctoral research fellow in social policy at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway and a lecturer in social work and sociology at the University of Zambia. He is a prominent researcher in the field of social policy; his areas of interest include poverty, politics, transformative social protection, wellbeing, and the ethics of everyday life. Through his extensive research,Cleopasaims to uncover the intricate political and ethical aspects that influence daily life while also providing valuable insights for evidence-based policy development to address critical societal challenges. He obtained his doctoral degree from Oxford University in 2018 as a recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship. Sony Pellissery is Professor and Director of the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. His special interests are in the areas of distributive justice and social rights. After earning his doctoral degree from Oxford University, he served as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (2007-2013). Pellissery has won the India Social Science Research Award (2009) and Ram Reddy Memorial Social Science Award (2015) for his academic contributions.

Inhaltsangabe

* Dedication
* Preface
* Chapter 1: The Politics of Welfare in the Global South: An
Introduction
* Sattwick Dey Biswas and Cleopas Gabriel Sambo
* Chapter 2: Exchanging Theories and Concepts on Welfare Policies
between North and South
* Ivan Harsløf
* Chapter 3: What Kind of Welfare States Are on the Rise in the Global
South?
* Einar Øverbye
* Chapter 4: Constructing Social Rights for the Poor: Entitlements to
Social Cash Transfers across the Global South
* Lutz Leisering and Katrin Weible
* Chapter 5: Anti-Poverty Interventions across "Most Different"
Settings: Considering Change over Time in Comparisons of Emotional
Impact
* Erika Gubrium
* Chapter 6: Conditional and Unconditional Universalism: Normative
Difference and the Slow Expansion of Social Protection in Africa
* Jeremy Seekings
* Chapter 7: Decentralization and Its Impacts on Disability Service
Delivery in China: An Example of Providing Accessible Government
Websites
* Biao He, Rune Halvorsen, Peng Ding, and Wanhong Zhang
* Chapter 8: Gender in Welfare in the South: An Unruly Category?
* Cleopas Gabriel Sambo
* Chapter 9: Comparative Urbanism and Travelling Theory: Gentrification
as a Global Urban Concept for Discussing Social Displacement and the
Right to Wellbeing in the City
* Heidi Bergsli
* Chapter 10: The Politics of Social Protection in Latin America
* Armando Barrientos
* Chapter 11: The Politics of Poverty Alleviation in China
* Robert Walker and Yang Lichao
* Chapter 12: Conclusion: Subversion of the Anti-Politics Machine of
Development: Emerging and Alternative Concepts of Citizenship in the
South
* Sony Pellissery