Dear colleagues
We would like to remind you that a new stream on Social Rights, Citizenship and the Welfare State makes its debut at the 2017 conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association. Papers relevant to these topics are invited from legal, socio-legal, social policy and political researchers as well as practitioners in relevant fields eg welfare rights advice.
Social rights and welfare law are ideally suited to socio-legal exploration, being closely linked with political culture, welfare ideology, governance structures and economics as well as impacting on the lived reality of citizenship. This stream seeks to facilitate this exploration; bringing papers together which address these problems from different perspectives.
Submissions to the stream may approach aspects of Social Rights, Citizenship and the Welfare State from a range of standpoints and disciplinary perspectives, including (but not limited to):
Substantive legal problems in the judicial recognition of social rights
The impact and meaning of “austerity”
Comparative papers on social citizenship, welfare state typologies, or the effects of devolution and localism.
Ideologies of welfare and, perceptions of adequacy
Abstracts should be submitted by 18.00 on Monday 16 January via http://www.slsa2017.com/social-rights-citizenship (the full call for papers can also be found here), and the conference takes place at Newcastle University from 5 to 7 April.
We look forward to receiving some interesting submissions.
Mark Simpson ([log in to unmask])
Ciara Fitzpatrick ([log in to unmask])
Jed Meers ([log in to unmask])
Stream convenors
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