scholarly journals Revner, sprækker og skred. Noveller af Helle Helle, Pia Juul og Naja Marie Aidt i 00’erne

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (63) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Mønster
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

Louise Mønster: “Splits, Cracks and Slippages: Short Stories by Helle Helle, Pia Juul and Naja Marie Aidt in the 00s”The article analyses short stories by Helle Helle, Pia Juul and Naja Marie Aidt which address family and love relations, and it discusses the way in which they relate to presentations of new Danish literature. It is argued that these short stories are typical for the first decade of the 21th century in their focus on close relations, everyday life and contemporary society, whereas it seems more problematic to align them with the understanding of new Danish literature as a critique of the idea of cultural radicalism and the welfare state.

The Covenant Paradox

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Sniderman ◽  
Michael Bang Petersen ◽  
Rune Slothuus ◽  
Rune Stubager
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Temporal Logic ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Evaluative Judgments ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a theory of the covenant paradox, i.e., the moral covenant underpinning the welfare state that simultaneously promotes equal treatment for (some) immigrants and provides a platform for discrimination against (other) immigrants. It first discusses under what conditions and why the moral premises of the welfare state favor the equal treatment of immigrants. It then considers under what conditions and why the very same moral premises open the door to discrimination against immigrants. It shows that the key to these contradictory outcomes is the temporal logic of evaluative judgments. Prospective judgments of benefits and obligations favor equal treatment. Retrospective judgments, again of benefits and obligations, pave the way for discriminatory treatment.

scholarly journals ISLAM AND MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN NORWAY

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-240
Author(s):  
Leirvik Oddbjørn
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Majority Population ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

In this paper the author describes and analyzes central features of Islam and Muslim-Christian relations in Norway. By close observation of the tension between interreligious solidarity and aggressive identity politics, the author highlights some central features of the trust-building Christian-Muslim dialogue in Norway. He also notes how anti-Islamic sentiments in part of the majority population are reflected in radicalization among some Muslim youths. However, the situation in general is described in more optimistic terms. He also identifies two examples showing that the majority of the Muslim population seem to endorse strong values evident in society in general– such as the welfare state and gender equality. Finally, the author poses the question pertaining to the way in which Christians and Muslims may adopt a unified stance against extremism.

The Western European Welfare State Beyond Christian and Social Democratic Ideology

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ido de Haan
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Parliamentary Democracy ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Coalition Governments ◽  
European Welfare State ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Democratic Ideology ◽  
Western European ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

One of the most striking features of Europe's postwar history is the emergence of the welfare state. Even though the first social policies had already been introduced in the 1880s, and while many of the organisational forms that became entrenched after 1945 were initiated in the first half of the twentieth century, the size and impact of the postwar welfare state was unprecedented. Even more remarkable was the widespread consensus with which structural social and economic reforms were implemented. The deep political and social rifts of the 1920s and 1930s and the lack of trust in democratic means to overcome these confrontations had been replaced by the acceptance of an interventionist state and parliamentary democracy as the way to solve conflicts about the way in which this state distributed social goods. The swift and consensual growth of the welfare state is also remarkable because most western European countries were governed by conservative governments, or coalition governments in which Social Democrats had to share power with conservative Christian Democrats and Liberals.

Building Scaffolds

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Botin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Technological Society ◽  
Critical Constructivism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Critical Constructivism and postphenomenology are two possible ways of describing, analysing and evaluating the role and meaning of technology in contemporary society and world. Whereas Critical Constructivism looks at the way technologies are dealt with on a macro level considering systems and programs, then postphenomenology digs into the individual and personal appropriation and understanding of technology in everyday life. This means that there is a gap for what concerns levels, but also in relation to what they want to accomplish. The critical stance of Andrew Feenberg in conceiving societal and political problems as ripe for radical technological change is met by postphenomenology’s pragmatic focus on how to build appropriate and meaningful structures for handling of emergent and imminent problems together with and through technology. This paper tries to bridge this gap by introducing the concept of scaffolding, which is inspired by Heidegger’s “Gestell,” but re-read in a new and different way than the usual pessimistic and deterministic interpretation where exploitation and “enframing” is at hand. Scaffolding is read as a common enterprise where we stretch and reach out towards each other in order to create platforms for interventions and activism. The paper is an attempt to direct this common enterprise in specific directions, and this directedness is indicative for our aims and goals. It is the claim that Critical Constructivism and postphenomenology should meet, and perform a certain kind of Techno-Activism when confronted with problems in technological society.

scholarly journals El Estado Social 40 años después: la desconstitucionalización del programa constitucional // The Welfare State 40 years later: The desconstitucionalizacion of the constitutional programme

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (100) ◽  
pp. 769
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Maestro Buelga
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Form ◽  
Spanish Constitution ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

Resumen:El trabajo analiza las tensiones entre los elementos propios del Estado social insertos en las diversas constituciones de los Estados europeos y los condicionantes económicos impuestos por la Unión europea, especialmente en los últimos años de crisis económica. Uno de los ejemplos estudiados es el de la constitucionalización del principio de estabilidad presupuestaria. Se sostiene en el texto que se ha «desconstitucionalizado» el estado social en España, como consecuencia de estas reformas acometidas en los años de la crisis económica, de manera que se han vaciado de contenido las cláusulas del Estado social previstas en nuestra Constitución.Summary:1. Introduction 2. The meaning of the welfare state clause in the Spanish Constitution of 1978. 3. The rupture in the way social status. 4. The global form of market and the deconstitucionalization of the welfare state.Abstract:The paper analyzes tensions between elements of the Welfare State inserts in the various constitutions of the European States and the economic conditions imposed by the European Union, especially in the last years of economic crisis. One of the studied examples is the constitutionalization of the principle of budgetary stability. It says in the text that it has «deconstitutionalized» the Welfare State in Spain, as a result of these reforms undertaken in the years of the economic crisis, so have emptied of content clauses of the Welfare State provided for in our Constitution.

scholarly journals [pt] Serviço Social em contexto:Politica Social e Serviço Social

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-79
Author(s):  
Maria Helena Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Welfare State

Neste artigo identificam-se algumas das tendências de mudança da sociedade contemporânea e da política social em contexto da relocalização do Estado de bem-estar, procurando compreender como essas alterações se reflectem e balizam a acção do Serviço Social. This paper identifies some of the changes in contemporary society and social policy in the context of relocation of the Welfare State. It focusses on how these changes are reflected in and impact on Social Work.

Egalitarians, Equalities and Welfare Evaluation

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael O'Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Welfare Evaluation ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThe focus of this paper is on the nature of the egalitarian policy objectives of the welfare state, and on the evaluation and assessment of social policies in the light of those objectives. This focus reflects the pervasive but often ill-defined presence of equality as an objective for social policy, without asserting that it is either unique or uncontested as an objective. The paper does not offer an evaluation of the success or failure of the welfare state in relation to equality; rather it is concerned with exploring what might be and is meant by equality as a target for social policy, with presenting some contrasting conceptions of equality, and with discussing the implications of the multiple meanings of equality for the way in which we think about issues in social policy and, in particular, about the impact of social welfare programmes.

Visions of Post-independence India in Arne Sucksdorff’s Documentaries

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil Stjernholm
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
Indian Village ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

This article studies two post-war documentary films set in India, Indian Village (1951) and The Wind and the River (1953), directed by the celebrated Swedish filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff. While many scholars have studied these films in relation to Sucksdorff’s biography and Swedish national cinema, less emphasis has been placed on these Indian documentaries in relation to other international documentary work that took place in India during the post-independence period. The excursion to India took place on commission from the Swedish Cooperative Union and Wholesale Society and therefore the films are studied in relation to Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson’s notion of “useful cinema.” In doing so, this article emphasizes the didactic ideas behind the production of sponsored film and the way in which ideas of the welfare state were projected onto post-independence India. Reading these documentaries against the grain, this article also addresses the question of how these films affected the authorial discourse surrounding Arne Sucksdorff and conversely what impact his films had among critics and filmmakers in India.

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