In response to widescale job losses produced by the COVID‑19 pandemic, states have drastically expanded social protections, primarily through cash transfer programs. Drawing from James Ferguson’s notion of distributional politics, this reflection analyzes the meaning of this rapid global expansion of the welfare state and the political opportunities it provides. Based on two seemingly disparate cases, South Africa and Canada, I suggest that these expansions provide valuable opportunities for rethinking existing approaches to livelihoods, labour and social protection. These interventions also provide political possibilities through which a more radically redistributive politics can be articulated. In both contexts, state responses have provo...
The end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries have seen an unprecedented growt...
Aside from the health challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented social crisis to...
In this paper, we present evidence that indicates that democratization has had a positive and signif...
In response to widescale job losses produced by the COVID.19 pandemic, states have drastically expan...
Britain’s welfare state has suddenly been presented with a new challenge – to keep the country afloa...
Over the past decade, social protection has come to feature more and more prominently on internation...
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly ruptured our global society. We have seen health care system...
In this interview, conducted during Anthro-pology Talks 2015 at the University of Bern, James Fergus...
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the livelihoods of people around the world...
Welfare states are tools dealing with risk-sharing, not only involving everyday risks but also risks...
Leisering L. Social protection responses by states and international organisations to the COVID-19 c...
Development policy and discourse have long shied away from the idea of giving money directly to the ...
The COVID-19 crisis presents a unique opportunity to study how public opinion towards the redistribu...
Canada and the United States are often grouped together as liberal welfare-state regimes, with broad...
Canada and the United States are often grouped together as liberal welfare-state regimes, with broad...
The end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries have seen an unprecedented growt...
Aside from the health challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented social crisis to...
In this paper, we present evidence that indicates that democratization has had a positive and signif...
In response to widescale job losses produced by the COVID.19 pandemic, states have drastically expan...
Britain’s welfare state has suddenly been presented with a new challenge – to keep the country afloa...
Over the past decade, social protection has come to feature more and more prominently on internation...
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly ruptured our global society. We have seen health care system...
In this interview, conducted during Anthro-pology Talks 2015 at the University of Bern, James Fergus...
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the livelihoods of people around the world...
Welfare states are tools dealing with risk-sharing, not only involving everyday risks but also risks...
Leisering L. Social protection responses by states and international organisations to the COVID-19 c...
Development policy and discourse have long shied away from the idea of giving money directly to the ...
The COVID-19 crisis presents a unique opportunity to study how public opinion towards the redistribu...
Canada and the United States are often grouped together as liberal welfare-state regimes, with broad...
Canada and the United States are often grouped together as liberal welfare-state regimes, with broad...
The end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries have seen an unprecedented growt...
Aside from the health challenge, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented social crisis to...
In this paper, we present evidence that indicates that democratization has had a positive and signif...