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The Welfare State in the Post(?)-Crisis Landscape, King’s College London
June 3, 2016 (venue: King’s Building K6.63)
Conference questions
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Does research affirm that there is a reproductive dimension to the ‘post’-crisis landscape?
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How does state-of-the-art research address the question of reproductive crisis, and is it adequate?
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How should the emergent properties of the reproductive crisis be conceptualised?
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What are the implications of the answers to the aforementioned for the merit of current modes of crisis management and alternatives to these?
9:30-10:00 Introduction
Magnus Ryner (King’s College London)
Paul Lewis/David Bailey (University of Birmingham)
10:00-11:20: Welfare and the Political Economy of Reproduction in the Post(?)-Crisis Landscape
Roberta Guerrina (University of Surrey) title tba
Adrienne Roberts (University of Manchester) ‘Household Debt and the Financialization of Social Reproduction’
11:40-13:00: The Crisis of the Welfare State: Perspectives from the Periphery
Monica Clua-Losada (University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley)
Serena Romano (University of Naples) ‘Urban Social Innovation in Southern Italy: Solidarity, Resilience and Austerity after the Great Recession’
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:50: Steady She Goes? Work, Reproduction and Welfare in a Reformed
Modell Deutschland
Douglas Voigt (King’s College London) ‘Social (In)justice and the German Hartz Regime’
Nina Suesse (King’s College and the Max Planck Institute, Cologne) ‘The Every-Day of German Family Policy Reform: Translocal Transformations in the Organisation of Childcare’
16:00-17:00 Conclusions
Johan Hassel (Global Utmaning) (TBC)
Paul Lewis/David Bailey (University of Birmingham)