Critical Social Policy
Critical Social Policy provides a space for critical approaches to the production, development and receipt of social policy and welfare. By engaging with issues rooted in political, economic, social and cultural power the journal interrogates conventional approaches to social policy and offers alternative and critically informed perspectives. In keeping with the commitment to confronting hierarchical ways of functioning that inevitably lead to unequal power positions, Critical Social Policy operates as a collective.
From the moment of inception, Critical Social Policy has been a political project confronting orthodox and traditional approaches to social policy, welfare and the state, seeking to put people before profit. Its original aims were, and continue to be, grounded in socialist, feminist, anti-racist and radical perspectives relating to the experiences of people struggling within or against the state. The journal continues to evolve, therefore, by engaging with questions of identity, position and power such as class, gender, ‘race’, disability, sexuality and age, so as to try and counteract exclusion, subordination and domination. The journal aims to interrogate critically social policy within the context of national and global social change.
The Critical Social Policy editorial collective welcomes contributions from activists, advocates, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, and users of services who are engaging with perspectives on power, resistance, emancipation, social justice and political transformation. We also welcome debate on how to initiate, engender and support struggles within the sphere of social policy.
Critical Social Policy provides a space for critical approaches to the production, development and receipt of social policy and welfare. By engaging with issues rooted in political, economic, social and cultural power the journal interrogates conventional approaches to social policy and offers alternative and critically informed perspectives. In keeping with the commitment to confronting hierarchical ways of functioning that inevitably lead to unequal power positions, Critical Social Policy operates as a collective.
From the moment of inception, Critical Social Policy has been a political project confronting orthodox and traditional approaches to social policy, welfare and the state, seeking to put people before profit. Its original aims were, and continue to be, grounded in socialist, feminist, anti-racist and radical perspectives relating to the experiences of people struggling within or against the state. The journal continues to evolve, therefore, by engaging with questions of identity, position and power such as class, gender, ‘race’, disability, sexuality and age, so as to try and counteract exclusion, subordination and domination. The journal aims to interrogate critically social policy within the context of national and global social change.
The Critical Social Policy editorial collective welcomes contributions from activists, advocates, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, and users of services who are engaging with perspectives on power, resistance, emancipation, social justice and political transformation. We also welcome debate on how to initiate, engender and support struggles within the sphere of social policy.
| Andrea Tara-Chand | University of Huddersfield, UK |
| Alastair Christie | University College Cork, Ireland |
| Rachel Fyson | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Paul Michael Garrett | University of Galway, Republic of Ireland |
| Norman Ginsburg | London Metropolitan University, UK |
| Chris Grover | Lancaster University, UK |
| Surinder Guru | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Syd Jeffers | University of East London, UK |
| China Mills | Healing Justice Ldn, UK |
| Suryia Nayak | University of Salford, UK |
| Arianna Silvestri | London School of Economics, UK |
| Sirin Sung | Queen's University, UK |
| Lizzie Ward | Independent Scholar, UK |
| Nicki Ward | University of Birmingham , UK |
| Joe Whelan | Trinity College, the University of Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
| Jay Wiggan | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Jenna Allsopp | Administrator, UK |
| Donna Baines | University of British Columbia |
| Jacqueline Heinen | University of Versailles, France |
| Fabain Kessl | University of Wuppertal, Germany |
| Gianinna Muñoz-Arce | University of Chile, Chile |
| Micol Pizzolati | University of Bergamo, Italy |
| Pauline Stoltz | Aalborg University, Denmark |
| Julia Szalai | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary |
| Hong-zen Wang | National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan |
| Charlotte Williams | Bangor University, UK |
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