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Critical Social Policy

Critical Social Policy

A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

eISSN: 1461703X | ISSN: 02610183 | Current volume: 44 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly

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.

Editorial Collective
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
Administrator
Jenna Allsopp Administrator, UK
International Advisory Board
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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