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9780197698686

The Politics of Welfare in the Global South

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2024-10-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography

Sattwick Dey Biswas is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy, Bangalore, India. In 2019, he earned his doctorate at the School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany. He published his doctoral thesis as a book titled Land Acquisition and Compensation in India: Mysteries of Valuation (2020). Dey Biswas is the coordinator of the History of Economic Thought Working Group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's Young Scholars Initiative. Currently, he is working in Land Policy, Social Policy, and Political Economy.

Cleopas Gabriel Sambo is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Policy at Oslo Metropolitan University and a Lecturer in Social Work and Sociology at the University of Zambia. He is a prominent researcher in Social Policy, and his areas of interest include poverty, politics, transformative social protection, wellbeing, and the ethics of everyday life. Through his extensive research, Cleopas aims to uncover the intricate political and ethical aspects that influence daily life, while also providing valuable insights for evidence-based policy development to address critical societal challenges.

Sony Pellissery is Professor and Director of the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. His special interests are in the areas of distributive justice and social rights. After earning his doctoral degree from Oxford University, he served as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (2007-2013). Pellissery has won the India Social Science Research Award (2009) and Ram Reddy Memorial Social Science Award (2015) for his academic contributions.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface


Chapter 1: The Politics of Welfare in the Global South: An Introduction
Sattwick Dey Biswas and Cleopas Gabriel Sambo

Chapter 2: Exchanging Theories and Concepts on Welfare Policies between North and South
Ivan Harsløf

Chapter 3: What Kind of Welfare States Are on the Rise in the Global South?
Einar Øverbye

Chapter 4: Constructing Social Rights for the Poor: Entitlements to Social Cash Transfers across the Global South
Lutz Leisering and Katrin Weible

Chapter 5: Anti-Poverty Interventions across "Most Different" Settings: Considering Change over Time in Comparisons of Emotional Impact
Erika Gubrium

Chapter 6: Conditional and Unconditional Universalism: Normative Difference and the Slow Expansion of Social Protection in Africa
Jeremy Seekings

Chapter 7: Decentralization and Its Impacts on Disability Service Delivery in China: An Example of Providing Accessible Government Websites
Biao He, Rune Halvorsen, Peng Ding, and Wanhong Zhang

Chapter 8: Gender in Welfare in the South: An Unruly Category?
Cleopas Gabriel Sambo

Chapter 9: Comparative Urbanism and Travelling Theory: Gentrification as a Global Urban Concept for Discussing Social Displacement and the Right to Wellbeing in the City
Heidi Bergsli

Chapter 10: The Politics of Social Protection in Latin America
Armando Barrientos

Chapter 11: The Politics of Poverty Alleviation in China
Robert Walker and Yang Lichao

Chapter 12: Conclusion: Subversion of the Anti-Politics Machine of Development: Emerging and Alternative Concepts of Citizenship in the South
Sony Pellissery

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