scholarly journals LYKKEN PÅ FØRTIDSPENSION - VELFÆRDSSTAT OG AFFEKTIV MOBILITET I JENS BLENDSTRUPS GUD TALER UD

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (116) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Peter Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
The Welfare State

HAPPINESS ON EARLY RETIREMENT: THE WELFARE STATE AND AFFECTIVE MOBILITY IN JENS BLENDSTRUP’S GUD TALER UD | The article takes its point of departure in current happiness studies and probes the possibly fruitful interdisciplinary relation between research in social science that suggests close links between the Nordic welfare model and the high levels of selfreported happiness we find in the region, and literary criticism which instinctively seems to hold that unhappiness is most conducive to inspire the literary mind. To demonstrate that things are never as simple as that, the article reads Jens Blendstrup’s novel, Gud taler ud (2004), as an example of both a welfare narrative and of what it coins ”an affective mobility story”: a story about a person’s enhanced feeling of happiness in retirement. On the one hand, the novel portrays a person who finds happiness when he is granted early retirement from the welfare state. On the other hand, the novel relates this in such a manner that we are reminded that one man’s happiness may be another’s unhappiness.

Entreprenøren som figur under neoliberalismen - Kapitalisme, individ og velfærdsorganisering

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luise Li Langergaard
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Economic Innovation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Welfare State

The article explores the central role of the entrepreneur in neoliberalism. It demonstrates how a displacement and a broadening of the concept of the entrepreneur occur in the neoliberal interpretation of the entrepreneur compared to Schumpeter’s economic innovation theory. From being a specific economic figure with a particular delimited function the entrepreneur is reinterpreted as, on the one hand, a particular type of subject, the entrepreneur of the self, and on the other, an ism, entrepreneurialism, which permeates individuals, society, and institutions. Entrepreneurialism is discussed as a movement of the economic into previously non-economic domains, such as the welfare state and society. Social entrepreneurship is an example of this in relation to solutions to social welfare problems. This can, on the one hand, be understood as an extension of the neoliberal understanding of the entrepreneur, but it also, in certain interpretations, resists the neoliberal understanding of economy and society.

scholarly journals Neo-liberalism and the Nordic welfare model: a study of the Liberal Alliance and ideological adaptation in Denmark

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troels Fage Hedegaard
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
The Welfare State

This article explores whether and how the neo-liberal ideology has adapted to the Nordic welfare model by studying the attitudes of voters and grass-roots members of the Danish party Liberal Alliance towards the welfare state. This inquiry into one of the key issues for the neo-liberal ideology is inspired by theory on how an ideology will adapt to its context. The expectation outlined in the article is for the neo-liberals of this party to favour features that make the Nordic welfare model distinctive – extensive governmental responsibility, especially for children and the elderly, and a universalistic approach to providing welfare. I have explored this question using a mixed-methods approach, where I analyse a survey of voters and interviews with grass-roots members of the party. Combined this shows that the neo-liberals in Liberal Alliance do support a role for the welfare state that extends beyond a minimum welfare state, especially for the care of children, but they view old age and retirement mostly as a problem each individual must deal with. Regarding the universalistic approach to providing welfare, the neo-liberals seem torn between two different tendencies, one being a perception of a fair way to provide welfare and the other the idea of a selective welfare state as a neo-liberal core idea, which leads to ambivalent attitudes. I argue that this results in a form of the neo-liberal ideology that has adapted to the Nordic welfare model.

Social Quality in a Transitive Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriy Heyets
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Quality Approach ◽  
The Welfare State

Nearly 30 years of transformation of the sociopolitical and legal, socioeconomical and financial, sociocultural and welfare, and socioenvironmental dimensions in both Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, has led to a change of the social quality of daily circumstances. On the one hand, the interconnection and reciprocity of these four relevant dimensions of societal life is the underlying cause of such changes, and on the other, the state as main actor of the sociopolitical and legal dimension is the initiator of those changes. Applying the social quality approach, I will reflect in this article on the consequences of these changes, especially in Ukraine. In comparison, the dominant Western interpretation of the “welfare state” will also be discussed.

Globalisation, Welfare Retrenchment and ‘the Logic of No Alternative’: Why Second-best Won't Do

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLIN HAY
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Recent Contribution ◽  
Second Best ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
The One ◽  
The Welfare State

Peter Taylor-Gooby's recent contribution to the debate on globalisation and the logic of welfare retrenchment with which it has come to be so closely associated (1997), represents a valuable and timely intervention in a debate whose significance can scarcely be over-stated. Our assessment of the extent to which the contours of the contemporary global political economy circumscribe the parameters of the politically and economically possible is crucial to our understanding of the trajectory and future of the welfare state in a post-Keynesian era, as it is to any attempt to reclaim a positive agenda for welfare reform in a context in which social policy is increasingly being subordinated to the perceived imperative(s) of economic competitiveness. Yet, despite its important challenge to the equation of globalisation, ‘new times’ (however labelled) and welfare retrenchment, Taylor-Gooby's intervention is not unproblematic. The counterposing of an ‘old sociology’ concerned with class, capital and the state with a ‘new sociology’ of fragmentation and diversity (a sociology of and for new times) is ultimately unhelpful. It presents an artificially stark choice between a celebration of the novel that threatens to prove complicit with contemporary welfare reform on the one hand, and a reassertion of continuity and the continuing relevance of ‘second-best theory’ on the other. It is the argument of this brief response that is only by rejecting the dualistic pairings of ‘old’ and ‘new’ sociology, ‘old’ and ‘new’ times alike, that we can fashion a sociology and attendant political economy capable of detailing the complex and contingent processes currently restructuring the welfare state and of charting the space for positive alternative trajectories of welfare reform. In so doing we must resist the temptation to make do with second-best.

scholarly journals Den arabiske telefon - Krimiparodier og litterær åndsnærværelse hos marokkaneren Driss Chraïbi

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (72) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steen Bille Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Word ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Driss Chraibi ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Western Civilisation ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure

Steen Bille Jørgensen: “The Arab Telephone: Crime Parodies and Literary Presence of Mind in the Work of Moroccan Novelist Driss Craïbi”Telephones play a central role in the work of the Moroccan novelist Driss Chraïbi. As a francophone writer spending most of his life in France, the writer’s meta-literary crime parodies about Inspecteur Ali integrate telephones at a structural and thematic level to invite the reader to reflect on the relation between the oral Arabic culture and the western crime novel. With a point of departure in the French notion of “téléphone arabe” (Chinese whispers) the poetics of the novel is focusing on its capacity to deal indirectly with the experience of proximity and distance. This problem appears already in the partly autobiographical La Civilisation ma mère and is developed throughout the work. Though Chraïbi critically points to ideological aspects of a paternalistic culture, his development of the Inspecteur Ali figure mainly leads the occidental reader to consider the importance of bodily experience and the spoken word (a fortiori oral literature) with its imaginary-fantasmagorical and fictional implications. Thus the telephone appears to be an ambiguous device that on the one hand provokes fragmentation – mainly related to the western civilisation – but on the other hand points to the foundation of an ethos related to listening and more generally an individual presence of mind.

scholarly journals Neo-liberalism and the Nordic welfare model: a study of the Liberal Alliance and ideological adaptation in Denmark

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troels Fage Hedegaard
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
The Welfare State

This article explores whether and how the neo-liberal ideology has adapted to the Nordic welfare model by studying the attitudes of voters and grass-roots members of the Danish party Liberal Alliance towards the welfare state. This inquiry into one of the key issues for the neo-liberal ideology is inspired by theory on how an ideology will adapt to its context. The expectation outlined in the article is for the neo-liberals of this party to favour features that make the Nordic welfare model distinctive – extensive governmental responsibility, especially for children and the elderly, and a universalistic approach to providing welfare. I have explored this question using a mixed-methods approach, where I analyse a survey of voters and interviews with grass-roots members of the party. Combined this shows that the neo-liberals in Liberal Alliance do support a role for the welfare state that extends beyond a minimum welfare state, especially for the care of children, but they view old age and retirement mostly as a problem each individual must deal with. Regarding the universalistic approach to providing welfare, the neo-liberals seem torn between two different tendencies, one being a perception of a fair way to provide welfare and the other the idea of a selective welfare state as a neo-liberal core idea, which leads to ambivalent attitudes. I argue that this results in a form of the neo-liberal ideology that has adapted to the Nordic welfare model.

Demokratischer Konstitutionalismus

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The One ◽  
Party State ◽  
The Welfare State

For Dieter Grimm, the constitution that emerged from the bourgeois revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries appears as one of the greatest achievements of our time. Originally geared to the liberal state, it now faces challenges from within and without. The party state and the welfare state on the one hand, and Europeanisation and globalisation on the other, are escaping its grip. The question is therefore whether and how the specific conjunction of democracy and the rule of law, including fundamental rights, can be maintained under the changing conditions. With contributions by Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Christine Landfried, Christoph Möllers, Ulrich K. Preuß, Dominik Rennert, Helge Rossen-Stadtfeld, Lars Viellechner, Uwe Volkmann, Hans Vorländer and Rainer Wahl.

scholarly journals THE ARTISTIC EMBODIMENT OF THE IMAGE OF ENGLAND IN THE «LETTERS TO ANOTHER ROOM» BY RAVIL BUKHARAYEV

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina R. Gaynutdinova ◽  
Alfiya F. Galimullina ◽  
Foat G. Galimullin ◽  
Abay K. Kairzhanov
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
English Society ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Everyday Realities ◽  
The One

The problem of the writer’s self-identification, especially of such a multifaceted one as Ravil Bukharayev, is closely connected with one of the topical problems of modern literary criticism and cultural studies – the problem of the Other. Ravil Raisovich Bukharayev (1951 - 2012) – a Tatar poet, writer, philosopher who wrote in Russian, lived for more than 20 years in England. In his work he demonstrates a new cultural situation, the ability to seamlessly apprehend the universal art culture, literature and worldview ideas from ancient times to the present day at the same time preserving his national and religious identity. The poetry by R. R. Bukharayev has repeatedly become the object of scientific research while the philosophical prose by R. R. Bukharayev is still waiting for his researcher. This article represents the experience of a scientific study of the artistic world of RR Bukharayev’s prose based on the example of his novel Letters to Another Room [1]. The results of our study suggest the following conclusions: The novel by R. R. Bukharayev “Letters to Another Room” presents the perception of England through the Other’s vision of it. R. R. Bukharayev representing himself as the Other in relation to the English tradition upends the preconceived idea of the English “gentleman” as the only bearer of the English literary and cultural tradition. Irony and self-irony help the narrator to isolate himself from Englishness of the created text: 1)The image of England in the novel by R. R. Bukharayev is ambiguous: on the one hand, the narrator found a real House with a wonderful garden, a place of rest and creativity in it, on the other – the author is far from idealizing English society. He seeks maximum objectivity in the artistic presentation of the image of England in his novel. 2)A distinctive feature of R. R. Bukharayev’s narrative is an integration of Russian and English realities in the text, which is manifested in comparisons of English everyday realities with memories of Russian life. In the minds of the author the images and associations connected with English and Russian literature and culture organically coexist.  

Nationalism and social welfare in the post-Soviet context

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Welfare Measures ◽  
The One ◽  
The Welfare State

This paper offers hypotheses on the role that state social welfare measures can play in reflecting nationalism and in aggravating interethnic tensions. Social welfare is often overlooked in theoretical literature on nationalism, because of the widespread assumption that the welfare state promotes social cohesion. However, social welfare systems may face contradictions between the goal of promoting universal access to all citizens on the one hand, and social pressures to recognize particular groups in distinct ways on the other. Examples from the post-Soviet context (particularly Russia) are offered to illustrate the ways in which social welfare issues may be perceived as having ethnic connotations.

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