Colonialism And Welfare

Author : James Midgley,David Piachaud
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849808491

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Colonialism and Welfare by James Midgley,David Piachaud Pdf

The British Empire is part covered three centuries, five continents and onequarter of the world's population. Its legacy continues, shaping the societies and welfare policies of much of the modern world. In this book, for the first time, this legacy is explored and analysed. Colonialism and Welfare reveals that social welfare policies, often discriminatory, and challenging to those colonised were introduced and imposed by the ?mother country.' It highlights that there was great diversity in rationales and impacts across the empire, but past developments had a major impact on the development of much of the world's population. Contributions from every continent explore both the diversity and the common themes in the imperial experience. They examine the legacy of colonial welfare - a subject largely neglected by both historians of empire and social policy analysts. This original book shows that social welfare today cannot be understood without understanding the legacy of the British Empire. Academics, specialised students with an interest in comparative social policy, history of social policy, imperial history, colonialism, and contemporary third world social policy will find this book invaluable to their studies.

Author : Elizabeth Strakosch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137405418

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Neoliberal Indigenous Policy by Elizabeth Strakosch Pdf

This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007.

Author : Ndangwa Noyoo
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781928480761

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Social Welfare and Social Work in Southern Africa by Ndangwa Noyoo Pdf

This book is written by Southern African social welfare, social work, social development, social security and social policy academics, practitioners and advocates who have varying degrees of experience. The authors who contributed chapters to this book added their perspectives to ongoing debates about academic areas in the region. Thus, the book’s primary objective is to discuss the development of social welfare and social work in Southern Africa. In doing so, it endeavours to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on social welfare and social work in the region. The chapters are examined through different theoretical lenses and historical perspectives. In this book, African scholars, academics, and practitioners provide a deep and critical reflection of social welfare, social work, and related disciplines during the colonial and post-colonial era, a period characterised by a deliberate move by Africa’s political administrations to focus on nation-building and to attempt to make Africa a global player. Despite being endowed with rich natural resources like minerals; agriculture; and solid family and extended family life, the continent is weak globally. Furthermore, the book focuses on the pre-colonial period – a golden thread running through the chapters. The book discusses the colonial era when Western countries’ capture and oppression of Africa characterised the continent’s history. This book is an appropriate publication at this point in our history; a resource that can be used to generate appropriate narratives and questions within the social welfare and social development sector, particularly on delivery, education and training.

Author : Nicolas Peterson,Will Sanders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521627362

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Citizenship and Indigenous Australians by Nicolas Peterson,Will Sanders Pdf

Leading commentators from a range of disciplines consider the history and future of indigenous rights.

Author : Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228005148

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Fighting for a Hand to Hold by Samir Shaheen-Hussain Pdf

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes and medical violence inflicted specifically on Indigenous children. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system - and in settler society at large. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, land reclamation, and self-determination for Indigenous peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada.

Author : Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351855273

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Regulating the Lives of Women by Mimi Abramovitz Pdf

Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on their race, class, gender, and marital status. Based on considerable new research, the preface to this third edition explains the rise of Neoliberal policies in the mid-1970s, the strategies deployed since then to dismantle the welfare state, and the impact of this sea change on women and the welfare state after 1996. Published upon the twentieth anniversary of "welfare reform," Regulating the Lives of Women offers a timely reminder that public policy continues to punish poor women, especially single mothers-of-color for departing from prescribed wife and mother roles. The book will appeal to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of social work, sociology, history, public policy, political science, and women, gender, and black studies – as well as today’s researchers and activists.

Author : Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family social work
ISBN : 0896085511

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Regulating the Lives of Women by Mimi Abramovitz Pdf

This important book looks at the changes in AFDC, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance, and welfare "reform." This new edition reveals how welfare policy scapegoats women more than ever to justify widespread retrenchment and to divert the public's attention from the real causes of the nation's mounting economic woes.

Author : Elizabeth Strakosch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137405418

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Neoliberal Indigenous Policy by Elizabeth Strakosch Pdf

This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007.

Author : Kwong-Leung Tang
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0761812040

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Colonial State and Social Policy by Kwong-Leung Tang Pdf

Colonial State and Social Policy looks at the determinants of social policy in developing countries in general and Hong Kong in particular in an attempt to remedy inconsistent results, artificial dichotomies of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and an obvious neglect of developing countries in the field of social policy research. Using an integrated approach of quantitative and historical analysis, the study tests out the variables as predicted by the dominant theories in the case of Hong Kong. Of the three major theoretical approaches that dominate research, the industrial society approach, the social democratic model, and the state centered theory, the state centered theory offers the best explanation of policy development. Meanwhile, historical analysis delineates four phases of social development which are marked by different approaches: residualism, "big bang" expansion, incrementalism, and privatization. The results of the study cast many doubts on the applicability of the concept of the "welfare-state regime," as the developmentalist state of Hong Kong has turned to social welfare to create a peaceful environment for its economic development and to enhance the legitimacy of the colonial system.

Author : John Sydenham Furnivall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000002201

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Progress and Welfare in Southeast Asia by John Sydenham Furnivall Pdf

Author : Carina Schmitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030382001

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From Colonialism to International Aid by Carina Schmitt Pdf

This open access volume addresses the role of external actors in social protection in the Global South, from the Second World War until today, analysing the influence of colonial powers, superpowers during the Cold War and contemporary donor agencies. Following an introduction to the analysis of external actors in social policy making in the Global South, the contributions explore which external actors were dominant in the decades after World War II, and how they shaped early and contemporary social protection making in developing countries. The latter half of the collection elucidates important players in the contemporary transnational social policy arena, such as donor organizations and international organizations, and critically evaluates the potential for and limits of the explanatory power of external actors in social protection making in the Global South, considering the relative contribution of external and domestic influences. By examining how transnational relationships and external actors have influenced the formation, development and transformation of social policies in the developing world, this collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars interested in social protection in the Global South from a range of disciplines. These include political science, social policy, and sociology, as well as historians of the welfare state, international relations scholars and scholars working on global and transnational social policy and development policy.

Author : Jeannine Carrière
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633985

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Walking This Path Together by Jeannine Carrière Pdf

Walking This Path Together is an edited collection devoted to improving the lives of children and families that come to the attention of child welfare authorities by demonstrating and advocating for socially just child welfare practices. In this new, updated edition, authors provide special consideration to the historical and political context of child welfare in Canada and theoretical ideas and concrete practices that support practitioners, educators and students who are looking for anti-racist, anti-oppressive and anti-colonial perspectives on child welfare practice.

Author : William J. Novak
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863657

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The People’s Welfare by William J. Novak Pdf

Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.

Author : Joanna Lewis
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821413996

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Empire State-building by Joanna Lewis Pdf

This exhaustive history profiles the late colonial state as it occurred in the British occupation of Kenya. Lewis (history, U. of Durham, UK), relying on her extensive research into archival records, first places her focus on a cross- section of the colonial administration, showing how it changed during WWII. She then examines the working lives of welfare officers and their relation with the administration before describing the ultimate fragmentation of British rule. The neglect of Kenyan women, lack of community medicine, and failure to address poverty are themes that recur throughout this history. c. Book News Inc.

Author : David Garland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780199672660

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The Welfare State by David Garland Pdf

This 'Very Short Introduction' discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.