A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible
solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor
often hurts the environment, and vice versa. Can we fight
poverty and ...inequality while protecting the environment? The
challenges are obvious. To rise out of poverty is to consume more
resources, almost by definition. And many measures to combat
pollution lead to job losses and higher prices that mainly hurt the
poor. In Unsustainable Inequalities, economist Lucas
Chancel confronts these difficulties head-on, arguing that the
goals of social justice and a greener world can be compatible, but
that progress requires substantial changes in public policy.
Chancel begins by reviewing the problems. Human actions have put
the natural world under unprecedented pressure. The poor are least
to blame but suffer the most-forced to live with pollutants that
the polluters themselves pay to avoid. But Chancel shows that
policy pioneers worldwide are charting a way forward. Building on
their success, governments and other large-scale organizations must
start by doing much more simply to measure and map environmental
inequalities. We need to break down the walls between traditional
social policy and environmental protection-making sure, for
example, that the poor benefit most from carbon taxes. And we need
much better coordination between the center, where policies are
set, and local authorities on the front lines of deprivation and
contamination. A rare work that combines the quantitative skills of
an economist with the argumentative rigor of a philosopher,
Unsustainable Inequalities shows that there is still hope
for solving even seemingly intractable social problems.
Članek se začne s kritiko razumevanja neoliberalizma kot zarote političnih elit in kot procesa množičnega razlaščanja, prek katere preidemo k poskusu pozitivne teoretske opredelitve razmerja med ...državo in ekonomijo v neoliberalizmu. V nasprotju s številni uveljavljenimi interpretacijami neoliberalizem ne pomeni šibke, temveč močno državo, tako, ki se sicer nekoliko oddalji od ekonomije, a le zato, da bi se lahko z njo povezala tesneje in drugače kot v predhodni, »fordistični« obliki kapitalizma. Država danes skrbi predvsem za vzpostavljanje in ohranjanje konkurenčnega ekonomskega reda in vzgojo podjetnih subjektov. Nova vloga države prinaša tudi njeno institucionalno preobrazbo od demokracije k tehnokraciji in spremembo socialne politike, ki je v sedanjosti usmerjena predvsem k aktivaciji prejemnikov socialne pomoči.
Environmental problems – particularly climate change – have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades. Debates about their implications for social policies ...and welfare reforms are now moving towards centre stage. What has been missing from such debates is an account of the history of the welfare state in relation to environmental issues and green ideas.
A Green History of the Welfare State fills this gap. How have the environmental and social policy agendas developed? To what extent have welfare systems been informed by the principles of environmental ethics and politics? How effective has the welfare state been at addressing environmental problems? How might the history of social policies be reimagined? With its lively, chronological narrative, this book provides answers to these questions. Through overviews of key periods, politicians and reforms the book weaves together a range of subjects into a new kind of historical tapestry, including: social policy, economics, party politics, government action and legislation, and environmental issues.
This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental policy and history, social and public policy, social history, sociology and politics.
2011 shook the world politically. The Occupy Movement, Los Indignados and the Greek Aganaktismenoi (outraged) reacted to zombie capitalism in the West, while the Arab Spring challenged political ...tyrannies in the Maghreb-Mashreq region.Democracy became the meta-question of the moment. New communicative technologies unleashed a tidal wave of civic protest that spread across the globe, bringing new political actors on to the street.
But what does this protest movement mean? Are we on the threshold of a transformation in global political consciousness? Is civil society the necessary counter-power that is democratising democracy from within? Or are we living through an apocalyptic terminal phase of civilisation?
In the second, revised edition of this indispensable book, the author looks behind the mirror of power and differentiates the real from the fake in policy and politics. It offers an original and compelling history of the present and will have wide appeal to a broad cross-disciplinary audience.
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Tretji festival prostovoljstva in socialne vključenosti, igre in ustvarjalne delavnice, hoja po vrvi, druženje ...z varovanci doma starejših, izjave Nejc Prehavec, Alba Zečiri, Dorina Papič, Tončka Sedonja, Ludvik Štefko, kuhar prostovoljec, kuhanje bograča.- Original language summary:
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How can mainstream models and classifications be used in analyzing welfare states and gender? What sorts of modifications to traditional theory are required? These and other questions are addressed ...in this book - the first to synthesize the insights of feminist and mainstream research in examining the impact of gender on welfare state analysis and outcomes. The text also highlights the effect of welfare state policies on women and men. The international and interdisciplinary contributors approach the subject on two levels. First, they test the applicability of mainstream frameworks to new areas in analyzing gender. Second, they highlight possible reconceptualizations and innovative frameworks designed to provide gender- based analyses. These approaches are combined with a strong comparative component, focusing on a cross-section of countries of major interest in welfare state research.
Inštitucije, ki skrbijo za oskrbo z javnimi in socialnimi najemnimi stanovanji, so se na stanovanjske potrebe starejših občanov odzvale z zagotavljanjem »zatočišč«. Ali je poudarek na »zatočiščih« ...bil najbolj ustrezni pristop k reševanju stanovanjskih potreb ostarelih? Ta prispevek na kratko predstavlja dve kategoriji zatočišč za starejše občane.
`This is an illuminating and topical study, which skilfully blends together theoretical and empirical analysis in search of the "citizen-consumer". It should become a key text for all with an ...interest in public service reform and the "choice" agenda, as well as consumerism and citizenship′ - Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, University of Loughborough Political, popular and academic debates have swirled around the notion of the citizen as a consumer of public services, with public service reform increasingly geared towards a consumer society. This innovative book draws on original research with those people in the front-line of the reforms - staff, managers and users of public services - to explore their responses to this turn to consumerism. Creating Citizen-Consumers explores a range of theoretical, political, policy and practice issues that arise in the shift towards consumerism. It draws on recent controversies about choice to examine the tensions of modernising public services to meet the demands of a consumer society. The book offers a fresh and challenging understanding of the relationships between people and services, and argues for a model based on interdependence, respect and partnership rather than choice. This original book makes a distinctive contribution to debates about the future of public services. It will be of interest to those studying social policy, cultural studies, public administration and management across the social sciences, as well as for those working in public services. John Clarke is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University. Janet Newman is a Professor of Social Policy at the Open University. Nick Smith is a Research Officer in the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent. Elizabeth Vidler is a Project Officer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University.
Louise Westmarland is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University.
Contrary to all expectations, Japan's long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation's malfunctioning economic structure. The country's basic social contract ...has so far proved resistant to reform, even in the face of persistently adverse conditions. InRace for the Exits, Leonard J. Schoppa explains why it has endured and how long it can last. The postwar Japanese system of "convoy capitalism" traded lifetime employment for male workers against government support for industry and the private (female) provision of care for children and the elderly. Two social groups bore a particularly heavy burden in providing for the social protection of the weak and dependent: large firms, which committed to keeping their core workforce on the payroll even in slow times, and women, who stayed home to care for their homes and families.
Using the exit-voice framework made famous by Albert Hirschman, Schoppa argues that both groups have chosen "exit" rather than "voice," depriving the political process of the energy needed to propel necessary reforms in the system. Instead of fighting for reform, firms slowly shift jobs overseas, and many women abandon hopes of accommodating both family and career. Over time, however, these trends have placed growing economic and demographic pressures on the social contract. As industries reduce their domestic operations, the Japanese economy is further diminished. Japan has also experienced a "baby bust" as women opt out of motherhood. Schoppa suggests that a radical break with the Japanese social contract of the past is becoming inevitable as the system slowly and quietly unravels.
A collection of 8 essays by British sociologists discussing areas of social change & continuity in GB from the 1960s to the 1980s, presented in 9 Chpts with a Preface. (1) Nicholas Abercrombie & Alan ...Warde -- Introduction -- reviews past scholarship on change in British society & its effects on people, & outlines the various arguments made in this book. (2) Bob Jessop -- From Social Democracy to Thatcherism: Twenty-Five Years of British Politics -- argues that GB, unlike Japan, Germany, & the US, has not moved from Fordist to post-Fordist modes of organization because its political system has undergone a transition from social democracy -- based on Keynesian economic policy & the welfare state -- to Thatcherism -- based on an entrepreneurial & market-driven society & popular capitalism. (3) Simon Frith -- From the Beatles to Bros: Twenty-Five Years of British Pop -- posits that the social meaning of songs has changed with the symbiotic relationships that the music industry has formed with the TV & advertising industries since the early 1980s (eg, music videos). (4) Rosemary Crompton -- Where Did All the Bright Girls Go? Women's Higher Education and Employment since 1964 -- discusses educational changes for women since the 1960s, when they began turning away from teacher training colleges, instead choosing to attend universities or polytechnics, or to receive professional training in other areas, eg, banking, accounting. (5) Johnathan Gershuny -- Change in the Domestic Division of Labour in the UK, 1975-1987: Dependent Labour versus Adaptive Partnership -- offers time budget data showing that the domestic division of labor has become more equitable, with full-time employed men increasing the amount of housework they do between 1974 & 1987. (6) Jock Young -- The Rising Demand for Law and Order and Our Maginot Lines of Defence against Crime -- examines crime & policing, arguing that crime patterns have changed & crime rates have increased, & that citizens are demanding that stronger actions be taken against crime. (7) Liz Stanley -- Changing Households? Changing Work? -- argues that a comparison of household structure & dynamics of the 1980s with those of the 1880s shows not change, but continuity; eg, the 1880s also witnessed high levels of female employment, which may be due to the unregulated labor markets common in both eras. (8) Paul Heelas -- The Sacralization of the Self and New Age Capitalism -- contends that modern New Age religions & conceptions of the self have their roots in the counterculture movement of the 1960s, in which people sought the meaning of life. (9) Huw Beynon -- The End of the Industrial Worker? -- addresses changes in the organization of work, arguing that, rather than seeing a decline in the traditional manual worker, industrial society has been transformed so that these manual workers still serve manufacturing companies through their employment with service industry subcontractors. References are provided for each Chpt. 10 Tables, 12 Figures. R. Logsden
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