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Colonialism and social policy in the Global South - CHANGE OF SPEAKER
Classical accounts emphasize domestic structures and actors when explaining the emergence of social policy in today’s advanced economies. External actors play a less central role. As a consequence, classical accounts are limited in their ability to explain social policy development in cases where external actors have been pivotal from the very outset. Considering that most of today’s nation states, especially in the Global South, have been subordinated to others at some point, this is not a minor limitation. I will address colonialism as a particular kind of transnational governance in order to better understand social policy-making in countries beyond the OECD. Using French and British former colonies as an example, I propose an actor-centric approach to social policy development in the presence of powerful external actors. This approach can be amended to suit different research questions and it allows to capture the actor dynamics before and after independence.
Date:
17 January 2019, 16:15
Venue:
32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Venue Details:
Violet Butler Room
Speaker:
Amanda Shriwise (University of Oxford/ University of Bremen)
Organising department:
Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organiser contact email address:
events@spi.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Social Policy beyond the West
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Ruth Moore
