Special issue collection
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Critical and Radical Social Work
Emotions and Society
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Evidence & Policy
Families, Relationships and Societies
Global Discourse
International Journal of Care and Caring
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Policy & Politics
Voluntary Sector Review
Critical and Radical Social Work
Latin America’s Radical Social Work Tradition
Guest edited by Marilda Villela Iamamoto, Cláudia Mônica dos Santos and Alexandra Aparecida Leite Toffanetto Seabra Eiras
The radical social work movement, known as ‘reconceptualisation’, emerged in the 1960s and 1970s to become the largest, and most significant, tradition in social work’s history. Reconceptualisation activists re-imagined a social work theory and practice that challenged the concept of post-colonial developmentalist theories that dominated both textbooks and policies in developing countries after the Second World War.Although the reconceptualisation movement is one of most the most important and progressive tradition in social work’s history, little is known about it in the English-speaking world. We hope that the current special issue will spark interest in the movement across the globe.
Emotions and Society
Preview - Emotionalization of Public Domains
Guest edited by Julia Lerner and Michele Rivkin-Fish
This special issue explores the geographies and styles of emotionalisation of public domains. The cases in this issue demonstrate that emotionalisation shifts the boundaries between private and public domains; combines reflections of individual interiority with processes of making sense of social relations and the constitution of collective identities, and reshapes professional relationships in the public sphere into primarily emotional encounters.
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Beyond the binary: new approaches to measuring gender in political science research
Guest edited by Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl and Lena Wängnerud
Is political science in need of new ways of measuring sex and gender? If so, why? This special issue explores the new insights that will be gained by the use of non-binary gender measures. Most articles in this volume centre on continuous gender-rating scales but some elaborate on other alternative measures of sex and gender.
Evidence & Policy
Preview - The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice
Guest edited by Carol Rivas, Ikuko Tomomatsu, and David Gough
This special issue examines the relationship between disability, evidence, and policy. The articles in this issue demonstrate the need to mitigate barriers to inclusive participation and to enable people with disabilities to collaborate as equals with other policy actors.
Families, Relationships and Societies
Relationality in family and intimate practices
Guest edited by Katherine Twamley, Andrea Doucet and Eva-Maria Schmidt
This special issue explores the relational ties that shape family practices and decisions, and the ways that scholars work with relationality – theoretically, methodologically, epistemologically, ontologically – in their family research.
Global Discourse
Preview - Understanding the Politics of Fear: COVID-19, Crises and Democracy
Guest edited by Dan Degerman, Matthew Flinders, and Matthew Johnson
This issue provides new, original and innovative analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of stimulating a wide-ranging debate and discussion about the politics of fear and the role of emotions in society and politics, more broadly.
International Journal of Care and Caring
The changing character of care work: New risks and responses
Guest edited by Janette Dill and Katherine Ravenswood
This special issue addresses how care has changed, and the impact of this on caregivers – both paid and unpaid. In particular, it addresses critical issues related to care work, including how identities influence care work; how inequality structures care work; how care work is recognised and compensated; how state policies influence the distribution of care; the working conditions of care work; and whether, and to what extent, citizens have a right to receive, and a right to provide, care.
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Space, place and Gender-Based Violence
Guest edited by Hannah J. Bows and Bianca Fileborn
This special issue aims to advance scholarship on the spatial and geographical aspects of gender-based violence and to re-ignite inquiry on this topic.
Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Psychosocial approaches to neoliberal policies, welfare institutions and practices in the Nordic welfare states
Guest edited by Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Betina Dybbroe
This special issue presents new Nordic analyses of welfare systems and practices influenced by neoliberalism. Articles in this issue aim to delve deeper into how neoliberalism presents itself in welfare practices and institutional settings, with a special interest in how human agency, subjective experience and identities, as well as intersubjectivity and collective life, are affected.
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
In honour of Francesco Forte
Guest edited Pasquale Catanoso and Silvia Fedeli
The issue is in honour of Francesco Forte, one of the founding fathers of the Public Choice School. All articles in this issue cover fields that Francesco Forte has influenced during his long career, involving almost all areas of economics.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Prospective Qualitative Research: New Directions, Opportunities and Challenges
Guest edited by Laura Bernardi and Núria Sánchez-Mira
This special issue advances current debates and explores new theoretical and methodological directions in the field of prospective qualitative research.
Strategic management of the transition to public sector co-creation
Guest edited by Jacob Torfing, Ewan Ferlie, Tina Jukić and Edoardo Ongaro
This special issue explores the role of strategic management and digitalisation in the public sector for spurring networked processes of co-creation that may foster innovative solutions aspiring to produce public value outcomes.
Place leadership and the role of the third sector and civil society
Guest edited by Oto Potluka, Alessandro Sancino, John Diamond and James Rees
The role of civil society and third sector organisations is often neglected in research and debates on public policy. This issue aims to fill this gap by discussing voluntary civic leadership in which individual activists take the lead and exploring third sector leadership in which organisations or socially connected groups collectively engage in place leadership.