Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis

by Fiona Williams

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509540385
• ISBN13: 9781509540389
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"