The Discourse of Animal welfare: A Case Study of JAAN (Jakarta Animal Aid Network) in Handling the Traveling Dolphins Circus

Animal welfare discourse in Indonesia is rarely published on various media platforms so that public knowledge about Animal welfare is still very lacking. This study makes a case for. socio-environmental justice pf all sentient being. The study argues for the interconnectedness of socio-environmental issue with the conundrum of political aspects in, in terms of the welfare of dolphins. The study contributes to intellectual discourse on governance. Qualitative approach was chosen with respect to testing out ‘equality utilitarianism ethics to use Peter Singer’s phrase. The study indicates that the greater understanding of utilitarianism has motivated Jakarta Animal Aid Network concerning dolphins welfare, The understanding shapes awareness and public education. It then influences Indonesian government decision to stop the traveling dolphins circus that often raises socio-environmental issues especially for those who care about the rights of all sentient being.Keywords : animal welfare, dolphins, equality, ethics, governance. AbstrakWacana kesejahteraan hewan di Indonesia jarang dipublikasikan di berbagai platform media sehingga pengetahuan masyarakat tentang kesejahteraan hewan masih sangat kurang. Studi ini membuat kasus untuk. keadilan sosial-lingkungan pf semua makhluk hidup. Studi ini berpendapat untuk keterkaitan masalah sosial-lingkungan dengan teka-teki aspek politik, dalam hal kesejahteraan lumba-lumba. Studi ini berkontribusi pada wacana intelektual tentang pemerintahan. Pendekatan kualitatif dipilih sehubungan dengan menguji 'etika utilitarianisme kesetaraan untuk menggunakan frasa Peter Singer. Studi ini menunjukkan bahwa pemahaman yang lebih besar tentang utilitarianisme telah memotivasi Jaringan Bantuan Satwa Jakarta tentang kesejahteraan lumba-lumba. Pemahaman tersebut membentuk kesadaran dan pendidikan publik. Hal ini kemudian mempengaruhi keputusan pemerintah Indonesia untuk menghentikan sirkus lumba-lumba keliling yang kerap menimbulkan masalah sosial-lingkungan terutama bagi mereka yang peduli terhadap hak-hak seluruh makhluk hidup. Kata Kunci : kesejahteraan hewan, lumba-lumba, kesetaraan, etika, pemerintahan.

The trope of the vulnerable child in conditional welfare discourses: An Australian case study

Conditional welfare policies are frequently underpinned by pejorative representations of those they target. Vulnerable children, under physical or moral threat from their welfare-dependent parents, are a mainstay of these constructions, yet the nuances of this trope have received little focused attention. Through a discourse analysis of parliamentary debates at the introduction of compulsory income management (CIM) to Australia, this article explores the complexities of the vulnerable child trope. It shows how the figure of the child was leveraged to justify hard-line welfare reforms in Australia, and offers a deeper and more intersectional understanding of how social and economic marginalisation is reproduced through welfare discourse.

Inclusion for All or Exclusion for Everyone? UK Unemployment Policies in the Age of Austerity

Whilst the comparative political economy literature has regarded the UK as among the least dualised countries when it comes to non-standard employment, thanks to its flexible labour market and predominantly means-tested system of social pro-tection, scholars in the precariousness literature have highlighted the increased pre-carity and insecurity of many non-standard workers, highlighting the extreme con-ditionality and punitive policies typical of the UK welfare system as an important contributory factor. This paper aims to bridge the gap between these literatures. It analyses the experience of social protection of a specific category of non-standard workers, namely temporary agency workers, in accessing both active and passive unemployment policies. It finds how welfare reforms introduced in the past two decades in association with a general welfare discourse centred on the concepts of deservingness and dependency have created important barriers in accessing un-employment protection, not just based on institutional features but also on social perceptions.

Minoritarian Labour Welfare in India: The Case of the Employees’ State Insurance Act of 1948

Through a case study of the Employees’ State Insurance Act of 1948, this chapter examines the historical evolution of a type of welfare schemes in India that made entitlements conditional on specific forms of employment. Global trends in social policy had influenced debates on a social insurance for Indian workers since the 1920s. Transformations of Indian industry, World War II, the post-war crisis and postcolonial economic planning then created conditions for legislation. Just when the international welfare discourse, Indian contributions included, converged on social welfare as a universal citizen right, the regulatory content of the health insurance scheme devised for India diverged from this normative consensus: “Employees’ State Insurance” remained strictly employment-based but also generated horizons of expectation that continue to inform labour struggles.

Keep Away from Me, Mr. Welfare Man

This chapter examines Third World Cinema’s first film, Claudine, within the context of the emerging colorblind ideology and widespread antistatism of the early 1970s. It begins with an overview of the racialization of welfare discourse beginning in the 1960s. The chapter then analyzes the film through three lenses. The first is TWC’s larger philosophy, rooted in the integrationist ethos of the civil rights movement. The second is a close analysis of the film itself, focusing on how the movie offers a black nationalist critique of the welfare state and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society that includes a direct rebuke of colorblindness. Finally, despite TWC’s civil rights origins and the film’s race-conscious black nationalist politics, the film’s marketing catered explicitly to colorblind sentiments, thereby contradicting the racial critique of the film.

Exploring Employability Constructions of Migrants in Sweden and Potential Consequences for Labour Market Entrance Recommendations

In the flexible Swedish labour market, the concept of employability has grown important. Within a neoliberal framework, accountability for one’s possibility to successfully obtain or keep employment rests with the individual. In contrast, within a social welfare discourse the individual is offered care and support in order to gain employment. The present study combined intersectional and discourse analytical approaches with the understanding that individual employability is subjectively constructed in the exploration of labour market induction, employability constructions and categorizations in the discourse used by government agencies directly involved in the labour market integration of newly arrived migrants. Public documents comprising information on labour market entrance, employability and associated concepts such as competence building and career development were analysed. The employability constructions were often contradictory—placed at the crossroads of neoliberal and social welfare discourses—and built on tacit assumptions and influenced by stereotypes. Conveying such employability constructions further could lead to exclusion from long-term employment and have detrimental psychological and health repercussions. Instead, it is of importance to work towards reconstructing migrants’ employability in this new context without damaging influence from inflexible categorizations and stereotypes.

Social welfare in the 2nd Republic of Poland – introduction to source texts

The article presents selected aspects of the functioning of social welfare in Poland in the interwar period. The first part focuses on the key legal acts for the social welfare system created from the basics, i.e. the Social Welfare Act of 1923, as well as legal acts regulating the work of social carers, as well as those separating the assistance competences of individual levels of state administration. The second part presents fragments of theoretical works of key importance for the development of the social welfare discourse in the Second Republic of Poland. In turn, the third part shows practical aspects of the system's functioning. The authors tried to show both systemic problems that did not allow for fully effective functioning of social welfare, as well as the importance of the solutions introduced, which for the first time in the history of Poland guaranteed citizens access to basic social benefits from the state.

A Beveridge Plan for India? Social Insurance and the Making of the “Formal Sector”

The article explores the history of the Employees’ State Insurance Act of 1948 (ESI), a law enacted in the first year of Indian independence. Global trends in social policy had influenced debates on a social insurance for Indian workers since the 1920s. Transformations of Indian industry, World War II, the post-war crisis, and the emerging economic policy of the postcolonial State then created conditions for legislation. Just as the international welfare discourse, Indian contributions included, converged on social welfare as a universal citizen right, the regulatory content of the health insurance scheme devised for India diverged from this normative consensus: the ESI Act remained strictly employment-based, contributed to an emerging structure of graded entitlements, and to the hardening of boundaries between what would later be called “formal” and “informal” labour. Simultaneously, it also generated horizons of expectation that continue to inform labour struggles.

The New Racial Politics of Welfare: Ethno-Racial Diversity, Immigration, and Welfare Discourse Variation

Preprint, final version in Social Services Review available at: http://doi.org/10.1086/673171

‘Helping Workless Families’: Cultural Poverty and the Family in Austerity and Anti-welfare Discourse

The notion of ‘cultural poverty’ has a long history in the United Kingdom. The argument that there is something culturally distinct about poor, working-class, and/or benefit recipient populations that sets them apart from the rest of society, and moreover, that these cultures are self-perpetuating, has tended to be deployed in the service of a politics that blames the cultures of the poor for poverty and economic disadvantage. The most recent resurgence of such arguments can be found in the austerity and anti-welfare agendas of the Coalition Government (2010–2015) and the post-Coalition Conservative Government(s) (2015–present). This article examines the 2017 Department for Work and Pensions policy paper ‘Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families’ that sets out the Government’s vision for tackling poverty and engrained disadvantage and argues, first, that the policy paper reproduces the cultural poverty argument. Second, I argue that the paper positions the family as the location in which the cultures of the poor and disadvantaged are reproduced, and consequently also as the proper site for government action to interrupt the cycle of reproduction, highlighting familial gender dynamics, reproductive arrangements, and parenting practices as key aspects of the discursive framing of poverty within austerity and anti-welfare politics.