Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State: Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework (2024)

Synopsis

The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlapping inequalities within the shifting institutional boundaries and organisational processes across diverse welfare settings. The volume explores the strengths and challenges of theoretical and methodological approaches to intersectionality, addressing its spatial, temporal and comparative dimensions. It, therefore, adopts a critical and process-focused approach while recognising the agency of individuals as subjects of state policies. The contributions critically build the link between intersectionality and other theoretical frameworks and research paradigms, including Marxist social reproduction theory, critical race studies, Bourdieuan analysis of class, critical geography, childhood, queer, migration, and disability studies. The contributions provide insights into the institutional realms of health, education, social services, and care work and examine state practices of racial profiling and policing in distinct welfare states. Overall, the contributions illustrate the strengths of the intersectionality framework in empirical inquiries while providing critical reflections on its limitations. Readers across a diverse array of social science disciplines will find this book valuable.

Copyright:

2024

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783031522277

Related ISBNs:

9783031522260

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

07/30/24

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The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Başak Akkan

Edited by:

Julia Hahmann

Edited by:

Christine Hunner-Kreisel

Edited by:

Melanie Kuhn