Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis

by Fiona Williams

Book Overview

Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at both the local and the transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial/decolonial thinking has become relatively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509540393
• ISBN13: 9781509540396
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"