Politics of Welfare in the Global South
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Sattwick Dey Biswas is an Independent Researcher. In 2019, he earned his doctorate at the School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany. He published his doctoral thesis as a book titled Land Acquisition and Compensation in India: Mysteries of Valuation (2020). Dey Biswas is the coordinator of the History of Economic Thought Working Group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's Young Scholars Initiative. Currently, he is working in Land Policy, Social Policy, and Political Economy. Cleopas Gabriel Sambois a postdoctoral research fellow in social policy at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway and a lecturer in social work and sociology at the University of Zambia. He is a prominent researcher in the field of social policy; his areas of interest include poverty, politics, transformative social protection, wellbeing, and the ethics of everyday life. Through his extensive research,Cleopasaims to uncover the intricate political and ethical aspects that influence daily life while also providing valuable insights for evidence-based policy development to address critical societal challenges. He obtained his doctoral degree from Oxford University in 2018 as a recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship. Sony Pellissery is Professor and Director of the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. His special interests are in the areas of distributive justice and social rights. After earning his doctoral degree from Oxford University, he served as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (2007-2013). Pellissery has won the India Social Science Research Award (2009) and Ram Reddy Memorial Social Science Award (2015) for his academic contributions.In bringing together social policy experts from different backgrounds to confront welfare regime paradigms in the Global South, this book offers a critical and full encompassing account of how 'ideas about welfare travelled from the North' and how new epistemologies crafted in the South shed light on the understanding of contemporary social protection systems permanently under scrutiny. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in social policy analysis and its ties to development theories."
Lena Lavinas, Professor of Welfare Economics, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Associate Research, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London
This volume is not only a beautiful homage to Ivar Lødemel's academic legacy but is, in its own right, an impressive and scientifically authoritative compendium of 'welfare state'
developments in the Global South. It is a collection destined to become required reading in
advanced social policy courses."
Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Università Bocconi, Milano
In bringing together social policy experts from different backgrounds to confront welfare regime paradigms in the Global South, this book offers a critical and full encompassing account of how "ideas about welfare travelled from the North" and how new epistemologies crafted in the South shed light on the understanding of contemporary social protection systems permanently under scrutiny. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in social policy analysis and its ties to development theories.
Lena Lavinas, Professor of Welfare Economics, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Associate Research, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London
This volume is not only a beautiful homage to Ivar Lødemel's academic legacy but is, in its own right, an impressive and scientifically authoritative compendium of welfare state' developments in the Global South. It is a collection destined to become required reading in advanced social policy courses.
Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Università Bocconi, Milano