Fiona Williams - Social Policy

1 Cover

2 Title Page Social Policy A Critical and Intersectional Analysis FIONA WILLIAMS polity

3 Copyright Copyright © Fiona Williams 2021 The right of Fiona Williams to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2021 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4040-2 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Williams, Fiona, Professor, author. Title: Social policy : a critical and intersectional analysis / Fiona Williams. Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A leading figure in the field offers her view on key questions for social policy and its future”-- Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020053296 (print) | LCCN 2020053297 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509540389 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509540396 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509540402 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Social policy--21st century. | Social problems--History--21st century. Classification: LCC HN18.3 .W538 2021 (print) | LCC HN18.3 (ebook) | DDC 306.09/05--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053296 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053297 The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

4 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements I am extremely indebted to John Clarke, Wendy Hollway and Janet Newman for their invaluable encouragement, discussions and comments on drafts of the book. My thanks go to Ruth Lister for talks and walks over the Yorkshire Dales and, for their interest, ideas and conversations, to Rianne Mahon, Greg Marston, Ann Orloff, Coretta Phillips, Jane Pillinger, Sasha Roseneil, Tom Shakespeare, Paul Stubbs and the late Bob Deacon. I am very grateful to Mike Farren for taming the bibliography. For care, love and support I thank Rowena Beaty, Jean Carabine, Emilyn Claid, Rowan Deacon, Joe Deacon, Brian and Maureen Lawrence, Gillean Paterson, and the Wharfedale Poets. Special thanks go to Yvette Huddleston and Mandy Sutter for Friday night drinks throughout the pandemic in gardens and parkland, come rain or shine, in person or in spirit. A source of intellectual stimulation was my association as advisor with Ito Peng’s international project Gender, Migration and the World of Care and Jenny Phillimore’s cross-national Welfare Bricolage project. I thank the Compass zoom discussion groups for rich debate on political strategies and activism. An earlier version of chapter 3 was published in The Struggle for Social Sustainability , edited by Chris Deeming (Policy Press, 2021). Finally my grateful thanks go to Jonathan Skerrett and Karina Jákupsdóttir at Polity Press for their patience and encouragement. I dedicate this book to my grandchildren Zephyr, Bodhi, Nova, Delaney and Victor in the hope that the earth they inherit and change will be more flourishing, just and humane.

5 A Note on Terminology

6 1 Introduction Continuities and changes Structure of the book Notes

7 Part I Orientation 2 A Critical and Intersectional Approach to Social Policy Introduction Remarginalization of the social An intersectional approach for social policy A critical approach to social policy Conclusion Notes 3 Intersecting Global Crises and Dynamics of Family, Nation, Work and Nature: A Framework for Analysis Introduction Neoliberalism, welfare and austerity Frame 1: Intersecting global crises Frame 2: The intersections of family, nation, work and nature Conclusion Notes

8 Part II Analysis 4 Unsettling/Settling Family–Nation–Work–Nature: From Austerity to Pandemic Introduction 1: Work, family and nation: the depletion and devaluation of care 2: Bordering practices in the post-racial settling 3: Necropolitics, nation and nature 4: Not all of a piece Conclusion Notes 5 The Social Relations of Welfare: Subjects, Agents, Activists Introduction The turn to agency The dynamics of agency Agency in the social relations of welfare Logics of contestation and resistance Conclusion Notes 6 Intersections in the Transnational, Social and Political Economy of Care Introduction A story of changes and continuities Micro-intersections layered in close encounters Institutional intersections at the meso-scale The transnational political and social economy of care Conclusion: towards care-ethical global justice Notes

9 Part III Praxis 7 Towards an Eco-Welfare Commons: Intersections of Political Ethics and Prefigurative Practices Introduction Ethics grounded in the struggles of care, the environment and decoloniality Translating ethics into practical eco-social politics Towards the eco-welfare commons Conclusion Notes 8 Conclusion: Multidimensional Thinking for Social Policy Introduction Reconstituting the knowledge base of social policy Relational knowledge and practices Reconstruction and reimagination in post-Covid-19 futures Notes

10 Appendix I: Elaborating Family–Nation–Work–Nature and Welfare

11 Appendix II: Situating the Author in Social Policy

12 References

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Title Page

4 Copyright

5 Acknowledgements

6 A Note on Terminology

7 Begin Reading

8 References

9 Index

10 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Framing the intersections of neoliberal welfare

2 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Letter to an NHS trust

3 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Forms of agency exercised by people in poverty

4 Appendix IIFigure A.1 Poster used in the May ’68 student-worker rebellions, produced by…Figure A.2 Poster for public-sector workers’ rally, 1973Figure A.3 Demonstrating against the cuts: Islington High Street, March 1973 (I have the…

1 Chapter 6 Table 6.1Intersecting scales and categories of analysis

1 iii

2 iv

3 vii

4 viii

5 ix

6 1

7 2

8 3

9 4

10 5

11 6

12 7

13 8

14 9

15 10

16 11

17 12

18 13

19 15

20 16

21 17

22 18

23 19

24 20

25 21

26 22

27 23

28 24

29 25

30 26

31 27

32 28

33 29

34 30

35 31

36 32

37 33

38 34

39 35

40 36

41 37