McGann, Michael and Murphy, Mary P. (2022) Some Useful Sources. Social Policy and Society, 21 (3). pp. 520-523. ISSN 1474-7464
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Abstract
Debates about sustainable welfare and eco-social policy cut across many fields, from
environmental studies to political economy, to normative political theory, to comparative
welfare state research, to active labour market policy, to income support and social
protection. The key debates engaged with in this thematic section concern the relationship
between eco-social policy and normative theories of wellbeing (human needs theory,
capabilities approach), and the implications of such understandings of sustainable
wellbeing for the provision of benefits and services. Also at issue, particularly in the
latter contributions, is the intersection between eco-social policy and post-productivist
theories of ‘work’, and what this entails for active labour market policy and the
conditionality of income supports. This brings in a much larger debate about reconfiguring
income supports, and the differences between universal basic income (UBI), a minimum
income guarantee (Coote, this themed section), or a participation income (Laruffa et al.,
this themed section). The literature on UBI is vast, so only recent work articulating the
relationship between UBI and the transition towards a more eco-socially sustainable
welfare state has been included. The literatures on human needs theory and the
capabilities approach are similarly extensive. Hence, only foundational work in those
fields has been included, along with subsequent contributions that have applied those
theories to issues of eco-social concern.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Social Policy; Society; Useful Sources; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: | 17035 |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1474746421000865 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Mary Murphy |
Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2023 11:37 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Policy and Society |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/17035 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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