Introduction: Social security and care after socialism: Reconfigurations of public and private

Autor(en)

Tatjana Thelen, Rosie Read

Abstrakt

State frameworks for welfare and social security have been subject to processes of privatization, decentralization, and neoliberal reform in many parts of the world. This article explores how these developments might be theorized using anthropological understandings of social security in combination with feminist perspectives on care. In its application to post-1989 socioeconomic transformation in the former socialist region, this perspective overcomes the conceptual inadequacies of the "state withdrawal" model. It also illuminates the nuanced ways in which public and private (as spaces, subjectivities, institutions, moralities, and practices) re-emerge and change in the socialist era as well as today, continually shaping the trajectories and outcomes of reforms to care and social security.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Journal

Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology

Band

50

Seiten

3-18

ISSN

0920-1297

Publikationsdatum

2007

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504009 Ethnologie, 504017 Kulturanthropologie, 504008 Ethnographie, 504010 Europäische Ethnologie

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/e8bd4370-20ce-4f01-af14-f6af690febba