Dukelow, Fiona and Murphy, Mary P. (2022) Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy. Journal of Social Policy, 51 (3). pp. 504-518. ISSN 1469-7823
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Abstract
The environment remains on the margins of social policy. Bringing degrowth literature into conversation with social policy debates about decommodification, we argue that a re-imagined decommodification remains central to addressing the social-ecological challenges we face and to forging a post-growth, post-productivist ecosocial welfare state. We explore the implications of this for re-imagining and mapping three core areas of an ecosocial welfare state revolving around the work/welfare/care nexus: the redistribution of time across work and care; repurposing of active labour market measures; and reorienting cash transfers and services. In each case we discuss what decommodified social policy in the service of a post-growth, post-productivist future might entail. Acknowledging challenges, we identify how instances of prefiguration of policy programmes and experiments across various countries offer concrete compass points for further transformation and a necessary paradigmatic shift.
  
  | Item Type: | Article | 
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| Keywords: | Decommodification; degrowth; sustainability; participation income; climate crisis; prefiguration; | 
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | 
| Item ID: | 17039 | 
| Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0047279422000150 | 
| Depositing User: | Dr. Mary Murphy | 
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2023 12:12 | 
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Social Policy | 
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | 
| Refereed: | Yes | 
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here | 
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