Analysing Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State, 1st ed. 2024 Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Approaches

The volume explores the overlapping inequalities within welfare states considering temporal and spatial dimensions. It does so by examining the institutional and organizational frameworks as well as the social practices that underpin the welfare states. Informed by this perspective, the volume provides a critical reflection on the phenomenon of intersectional inequalities highlighting that inequalities do not only overlap but also have the potential to mask each other.  The volume, therefore, adopts a critical and process-focused approach to intersectionality. The contributions discuss the extent to which selective inequality factors have emerged in various institutional fields, organizational settings and society in general. They provide insights into the realms of health, education and social services, focus on the relationship between paid and unpaid care work, examine state practices of criminalization, and analyse various forms of activist positions, social movements and political resistance. The volume demonstrates the potential of intersectional analyses while also reflecting on the methodological challenges and addressing the gaps and limitations of intersectional perspectives. Readers across the social sciences, and particularly those interested in the issues of complex inequalities and welfare, will find this book valuable. 

Başak Akkan, PhD,is a faculty member at Istanbul Bilgi University Department of International Relations. Her research focuses on theories of justice and inequality with a particular emphasis on intersectionality, feminist analysis of care regimes, and child well-being. She is a research partner of CUWB, an international research network devoted to studying child well-being. She serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Care and Caring. Her scholarly work has been published in various scientific journals, including Child Indicators Research, Children and Youth Services, Feminist Theory, Historical Social Research, Journal of Gender Studies, Social Inclusion, and Social Politics.  

Julia Hahmann, PhD, is a trained sociologist and works as a Professor for Social Exclusion and Participation at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences. Her research focuses on single parenthood, alternative family concepts, friendship, caring practices, material and materialist gerontology, feminist and gender theories as well as qualitative methods. She is board member of the German Sociological Association and board member of the working group “Material Gerontology”. Her latest English publication is Friendship Repertoires and Care Arrangement. A Praxeological Approach. International Journal of Aging and Human Development and Material communities: Critical materialisms for the Aging Studies in the Journal of Aging Studies.

Christine Hunner-Kreisel, PhD, was Professor for Transculturality and Gender at the University of Vechta (Germany), Social Work, Faculty I of Education and Society Science. Her area of expertise was Childhood and Youth, Child Well-Being, Education, Intersectionality and the analysis of Social Inequalities as well as qualitative methodology. She had expertise in q

Deals with the institutional and organizational processes of welfare states

Addresses a variety of the realms of welfare states including health

Brings together scholars from different disciplines and diverse geographies