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Call for Papers

50th Anniversary Conference of the Social Policy Association

Durham University, Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th July, 2017

Submit an Abstract or Proposal for a Symposium: Please note that this year, once again, we will be using the Easychair conference system for abstract submissions.  The Easychair website for the SPA 2017 conference is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spa2017 where you will be asked to register with a valid email address and a password.
The final deadline for submissions will be Tuesday 28th February 2017.

Conference Title: Social Inequalities: Research, Theory, and Policy

In this the 50th year of the Social Policy Association we are drawing upon the ongoing analysis, challenges and opportunities for social policy research and education. At a time when income inequality is rising in most countries, and differences between countries remain huge, the social significance of these inequalities is of fundamental importance to societies and therefore research. We welcome proposals for papers and symposia which address this topic through the themes below and consider these with reference to teaching and research.

•       Inequality and social justice; national, local and global perspectives
•       Political landscapes; regions and nations
•       Race, ethnicity and migration
•       Women, social policy and the mixed economy of welfare and work
•       Learning and teaching; representing and recruiting to social policy courses and degrees
•       Change, challenge and continuity in health and social care
•       Open stream for papers not covered in the themes above

Monday 10th July, 50th Anniversary AGM, Awards and Drinks Reception at Durham Castle sponsored by Policy Press


Tuesday 11th July, 50th Anniversary Dinner and Local Entertainment, Beamish Museum.




Special panel sessions:

The European Union, ‘Brexit’ and the implications for social policy in the UK. Schedule of speakers to follow.

Social Policy in the North East with confirmed speakers Christina Beatty, Sheffield University, Suzanne Moffat, Newcastle University, Rob MacDonaldn, Teesside University and Jonathan Wistow, Durham University. Chair; Ted Schrecker, Durham University.

Plenary speakers are confirmed as:

Professor Andrew Sayer, Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy , Lancaster University
Inequalities and the future: a wide angle view
Why have economic inequalities widened over the last 40 years? Why have the incomes of the 0.1% soared, even after the crisis? The talk will identify some of the principle mechanisms which have produced this change and led to the majority of the population getting a declining proportion of national income, with many also experiencing increased personal debts and housing costs. While it will suggest the kind of policies that would be capable of reversing these tendencies, it will also take account of an unavoidable, unprecedented and massively inconvenient fact that looms increasingly large: the impossibility of everlasting economic growth in a finite planet.

Journal of Social Policy and Social Policy & Society Plenary
Professor Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
The neoliberal transformation of capitalist democracy and the ‘European Social Model’
The “European Social Model” was to be the counterpart of the “European Internal Market”. But it was never clear what exactly it was: the common denominator of the welfare states of European Union member states, or a set of European institutions to be created at the supranational level, to complement, reform, unify or replace national welfare states. Sooner or later, however, questions arose whether there was a meaningful “Social Model” at all that was shared by all European Union member states, and in fact national traditions and institutions of social protection turned out to be too diverse to be consolidated into a European-level social welfare state. Britain under Thatcher was the leading opponent of efforts to transform the, more imagined than real, “Social Model” of “Europe” into what was for some time referred to as a “Social Dimension of the Internal Market”, until the concept was forever dropped from Eurospeak. Meanwhile postwar social welfare states were gradually absorbed into a neoliberal economic order of Continental dimension, sustained by national states and supranational institutions insulated from political-electoral pressures. This holds in particular for the member countries of the European Monetary Union, following the crises after the financial collapse of 2008. Today the remnants of the democratic welfare state at national level are being hollowed out by the “Four Freedoms” of the European internal market and the pressures for “structural reforms”, including cutbacks in state spending and legislation to make labor markets more “flexible”, that are continuously emanating from the European Central Bank and the European Council.

Professor Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, Plenary title and abstract to follow.

Conference Website:
https://www.dur.ac.uk/sass/2017-spa-conference/
***REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN***



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