The organizing and scientific committee invites session proposals for the twelfth ESPAnet-Italy annual conference ““Territorial Welfare: (de-)globalizations, innovative and reactionary outcomes”. The conference will be hosted by the University of Urbino (Department of Economy, Society, Politics), from 19 to 21 September 2019. The committee suggests the following selection of themes for session proposals:

 

·       social policies facing new political instability;

·       changes in the culture of politics and their effects on policy decisions;

·       marginalized people, their rights, and social citizenship;

·       balancing social protection between old and new needs;

·       the room for institutionalizing social innovations, including negotiations and conflicts;

·       grassroots mobilizations for the protection and definition of new welfare measures;

·       roles, skills, and training of social workers and other professionals facing new needs and policy change;

·       multilevel governance and coordination of national and international social welfare policy;

·       welfare spaces and places, also from the point of view of city planning and architecture;

·       the transformation of spatial unevenness and related welfare responses;

·       the future of Europe as an actor in welfare policy making and in relation to national systems of protection;

·       new trends in social inclusion policies;

·       policy-specific (e.g. health, poverty, immigration, family, education) changes related to general trends in social change.

·       evidence-based policy-making;

·       technological changes and their effects on work, welfare and citizenship.

 

However, session proposals can also address other topics or combine two or more of the topics above.

Session proposals should promote inter and multi-disciplinary approaches, and should be sent to the following email address: [log in to unmask] by January 21^st  2018. Acceptance will be notified by February 11^th 2018.

more info

http://www.espanet-italia.net/theme-of-the-conference2019/

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