Dear all,
Please consider submitting a paper proposal to our panel at the 2020
EASA Conference in Lisbon 21-24 July:
*Human worth in austere times: transformative welfare regimes, human needs
and public policy*
*Convenors*:Deborah James (LSE)
Patrícia Alves de Matos (University of Lisbon)
This panel examines the politics of human worth in austere times, focusing
on how it is experienced, produced, negotiated and conceptualized in
different livelihood spheres and institutional settings, and across diverse
scales of regulation, under transformative welfare regimes.
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8639
*Long abstract:*
Across Europe, austerity policies of spending cuts, health privatisation
and welfare reform, together with an intense moralization of those 'who had
been living above their possibilities', have redefined the connections
between citizens and the state. Transformative welfare regimes have
contributed to a reconfiguration of the articulation of the needs of
capital, states and labour. This panel examines the politics of human worth
in austere times, focusing on how it is experienced, produced, negotiated
and conceptualized in different livelihood spheres and institutional
settings, and across diverse scales of regulation, under transformative
welfare regimes. The panel will explore the relational/contentious
processes through which human worth is defined, classified and justified in
various institutional settings and through policy processes, and the daily
livelihood practices and normative moralities that underpin it. We invite
historically-informed ethnographic contributions addressing: 1) the
mutually constitutive relationship between austerity ideologies, shifting
policy frameworks of redistribution and conceptions of human need; 2) the
normative moralities mobilised by ordinary people to define and legitimise
the value of their needs: both material (income, housing, health) and
immaterial (rights, entitlements, aspirations); 3) the ways in which human
worth is produced and negotiated in, through and across institutional
settings and classificatory typologies; 4) the interaction between people's
underlying moral logics and rationalities of worth, and those inherent in
policy frameworks and mediating institutions of welfare and care provision.
Very much looking forward to receiving your abstracts.
All the best,
Patrícia Matos
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Patrícia Alves de Matos
Researcher, PhD
CRIA - ISCTE-IUL <https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/patricia-matos/cv>
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