A5058378283- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- International Development and Aid
- International Labor and Employment Law
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Human Rights and Development
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Global Health Care Issues
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Policy Transfer and Learning
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
Bielefeld University
2022-2025
University of Bremen
2016
This special issue introduction develops the concept of anticipatory global governance by focusing on practices through which international organisations (IOs) imagine and establish "present futures" across diverse transnational areas. Rather than following a conventional chronological stance, contributors adopt constructivist perspective time to detail logics effects practices. In this introductory article, we suggest that analysis IOs' resulting present futures can broaden our...
Considering the socio‐economic and cultural diversity of world, it is a bold undertaking by international organisations to propose welfare policies designed apply all or many countries. We argue that since 1990s, new instruments quantification have extended knowledge base organisations, helping them design communicate policy proposals with global scope. map these numerical in field basic income protection, showing they serve identify social problems models welfare. Three case studies...
During the Covid crisis, while countries set up an unprecedented social protection response, international organisations quickly turned towards envisioning how to ‘build back better’ using protection. Building on a qualitative document analysis, article finds that frequently imagine future through anticipations of protracted and multidimensional crises – often in quantified form. Arguing futures are ideational influence policymaking, reconstructs two ways which these crisis inform...
Many contemporary efforts to govern global challenges are driven by combinations of numbers and futures. This special section proposes the novel concept ‘quantified futures’ as a way grasping this widespread entanglement. Because existing scholarship has largely treated quantification futurisation discrete governing technologies, their intersections have remained undertheorised underexplored. In introductory article, we discuss similarities between build an integrated analytical framework...
ABSTRACT The emergence of governance by numbers (GBN) has seen the increasing use metrics to influence government and corporate behaviour, but its uptake varies significantly across international organisations. This study examines adoption GBN in global labour at International Labour Organisation (ILO) for Economic Co‐operation Development (OECD). Using a comparative institutional approach, we highlight ILO's resistance developing indicators decent work economic performance, despite support...
Abstract Global crises constitute challenges for social policy. While policy is predominantly a national concern, international organisations (IOs) contribute frames of reference state decisions. In this article, we explore whether the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in IOs’ ideas and recommendations health care, labour market, protection policies due how IOs perceived crisis’ specific nature, severity, global scope. We focus on four regarded as key actors policy, namely ILO, OECD, WHO,...
Abstract The article investigates the production of decent work indicators within ILO, to demonstrate that developing measurement infrastructures in global policymaking requires political work. concept responds perceived marginalization ILO social and labor policy was supposed provide a new unifying normative framework for organization. shows creating encountered challenges due its highly politicized process. Proponents quantification (mostly workers’ representatives) opponents employers’...
The welfare state is increasingly challenged and threatened by futures, whose exact realisation remains largely uncertain. article compares how the International Labour Organization (ILO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD), World Bank anticipate authorise "futures of work" in light technological transformations climate change. shows that IOs face epistemic constraints both constructing problems designing social security policy proposals. Constraints rely on visions...
This introduction sets the scene for five papers of special issue on ‘Reflexivity in Global Social Policy’. It argues that a reflexivity lens can deepen self-critical assessment field and its boundaries, contribute to more conceptual analytical nuance. The reviews existing approaches reflect key building blocks – ideas, terminology, theory makes case addressing porous boundaries between scholarship practice. subsequently suggests two notions perspectivity performativity inform further...