Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State

Part 1 How to address multiple and overlapping inequalities?.- Methodological and Theoretical Research Approaches.- II. Institutionalized and organizational inequalities in welfare states.- Political considerations, activist positions and social movements.- Paid Labour and Care Work.- Health System.- Educational System.- Social Assistance and Social Service System.- Crime, Policing and the State.

Basak Akkan, PhD, is a faculty member at Istanbul Bilgi University Department of International Relations. Her research focuses on theories of justice and inequality with a particular emphasis on intersectionality, feminist analysis of care regimes, and child well-being. She is a research partner of CUWB, an international research network devoted to studying child well-being. She serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Care and Caring. Her scholarly work has been published in various scientific journals, including Child Indicators Research, Children and Youth Services, Feminist Theory, Historical Social Research, Journal of Gender Studies, Social Inclusion, and Social Politics.  

 

Julia Hahmann, PhD, is a trained sociologist and works as a Professor for Social Exclusion and Participation at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences. Her research focuseson single parenthood, alternative family concepts, friendship, caring practices, material and materialist gerontology, feminist and gender theories as well as qualitative methods. She is board member of the German Sociological Association and board member of the working group "Material Gerontology". Her latest English publication is Friendship Repertoires and Care Arrangement. A Praxeological Approach. International Journal of Aging and Human Development and Material communities: Critical materialisms for the Aging Studies in the Journal of Aging Studies.