Dukelow, Fiona and Murphy, Mary P. (2022) Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy. Journal of Social Policy, 51 (3). pp. 504-518. ISSN 1469-7823
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Abstract
The environment remains on the margins of social policy. Bringing degrowth literature into conversation with social policy debates about decommodification, we argue that a re-imagined decommodification remains central to addressing the social-ecological challenges we face and to forging a post-growth, post-productivist ecosocial welfare state. We explore the implications of this for re-imagining and mapping three core areas of an ecosocial welfare state revolving around the work/welfare/care nexus: the redistribution of time across work and care; repurposing of active labour market measures; and reorienting cash transfers and services. In each case we discuss what decommodified social policy in the service of a post-growth, post-productivist future might entail. Acknowledging challenges, we identify how instances of prefiguration of policy programmes and experiments across various countries offer concrete compass points for further transformation and a necessary paradigmatic shift.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Decommodification; degrowth; sustainability; participation income; climate crisis; prefiguration; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: | 17039 |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0047279422000150 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Mary Murphy |
Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2023 12:12 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Social Policy |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/17039 |
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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