Different sides, same story. Common factors that contributed to the success of the populist radical parties in Spain
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 228-245
ISSN: 1478-2790
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In: Journal of contemporary European studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 228-245
ISSN: 1478-2790
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 246-261
ISSN: 1478-2790
In: European journal of social work, Volume 27, Issue 4, p. 719-732
ISSN: 1468-2664
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, p. 1-14
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In: European journal of social work, Volume 27, Issue 4, p. 762-774
ISSN: 1468-2664
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 215-227
ISSN: 1478-2790
In: European journal of social theory, Volume 26, Issue 4, p. 571-579
ISSN: 1461-7137
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, p. 1-16
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In: Journal of contemporary European studies, p. 1-17
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In: European journal of social theory, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 41-59
ISSN: 1461-7137
Confessional critiques proliferate in contemporary culture, remodelling critical politics as self-purification. Within Foucault's work, critique is associated with resistance to power and subjectification, whereas confession appears a technique of disciplinary and pastoral power. However, genealogy creates hybrids, and herein we observe how critique and confession are entangled in contemporary social justice discourses, focusing empirically on contemporary anti-racist texts. These critique their imagined readers and society more generally, demanding confessions, castigating denials and exhorting interminable purificatory self-work. This analysis draws from Foucault's genealogies of parrhesia and avowal, through his latter works on the problem of 'truth-telling' and how it forms subjects, even by critique. Recognising this historical hybridisation of critique and confession within discourses such as anti-racism may help to clarify the political stakes of critique.
In: Journal of European social policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, p. 373-387
ISSN: 1461-7269
Around the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has triggered various reactions of governments designed to contain the pandemic. Among other things, the pandemic led to an unforeseen and unprecedented closure of schools and daycare facilities. In turn, these closures might have forced parents to stay at home to care for their children who could not attend schools or kindergartens. From a social policy perspective, this raises the question of the extent to which parents' employment has been affected, as time spent on childcare might make parents reduce their working hours. To answer this question, we exploit within-country variations in school and childcare policies across the federal states of Germany to analyse their effect on parents' working time. In specific, we compare the working time of parents who live in different federal states with different restrictions regarding childcare in a difference-in-differences and difference-in-difference-in-differences framework. Our results reveal a non-negligible positive effect of an earlier and more far-reaching reopening of schools and daycare facilities on parents' employment. Our results indicate that prolonged closure goes along with negative employment effects for parents. Hence, containment and closure policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have substantial economic and social side effects.
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 203-214
ISSN: 1478-2790
In: European journal of social work, Volume 27, Issue 3, p. 599-610
ISSN: 1468-2664
In: European journal of social work, Volume 27, Issue 3, p. 585-598
ISSN: 1468-2664
In: European journal of social theory, Volume 26, Issue 2, p. 313-313
ISSN: 1461-7137