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We would like to invite you to submit a paper proposal to our Stream 2 ‘CENTRAL-LOCAL TENSIONS IN EUROPEAN WELFARE SYSTEMS’ at the 2018 ESPAnet Conference ‘Transformation of European welfare systems: challenges, problems and future prospects’.
The conference will take place 30 August – 1 September 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania and the deadline for the paper proposals is 19 March 2018
Steam No. 2 – CENTRAL-LOCAL TENSIONS IN EUROPEAN WELFARE SYSTEMS: Social policies are generally made at a different level from where they are delivered and experienced, with spatially displaced and dispersed supply and demand. This stream invites contributions to explore this ‘distance’, theoretically and empirically; to reflect on understandings of ‘the welfare state’ when the local comes to the fore and to identify patterns and challenges that emerge when social policy is analysed within its geographical and social landscapes.
Using the central-local nexus as an analytical lens invites for a fresh look at social policy developments and outcomes, and helps to understand how different policies interact with space. Examining this more systematically will enable identifying key challenges for welfare states and future welfare reforms.
Central-local tensions play out differently in different national contexts and governance regimes; they may take on different meanings and effects in urban landscapes compared to rural areas and may be more pronounced with respect to certain policy fields, such as social care or education, than with others. Such is the example of public childcare which, in most cases, is centrally designed but locally delivered. This creates delivery and opportunity gaps across geographical localities, something often overlooked in comparative welfare state research. The central-local dimension may help shed new light on the role of family and community networks in different welfare state contexts, and how these may fill the gaps created by different challenges arising from varying access and service logistics in rural, scarcely populated areas compared to cities with pressure on places and long waiting lists.
This stream invites contributions from across disciplines, including social policy, political science, ethnography, social work and geography. We invite papers that offer analytical discussion grounded in local knowledge, be it around policy design, delivery or experience/consumption thereof, that attempt to identify key features, for example in cross-country or cross-regional comparison, or in conceptual terms.
he deadline for abstract submission is 19 March 2018.
Abstracts should be about 500 words and be submitted only to one conference stream. The online submission form can be found at: http://www.espanetvilnius2018.fsf.vu.lt/conference/submit-abstract
The online submission system will guide you through the submission process. Successful authors will be informed by 16 April 2018.
Best regards,
Ingela Naumann (Edinburgh University) and Jana Javornik (Universty of East London)
P.S.: UCU Edinburgh University will join the strike from 26th February 2018. For more information please see https://www.ucu.org.uk/strikeforuss
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Dr Ingela K Naumann
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University of Edinburgh
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