33 3 Social policy in developing countries: a post-colonial critique and participatory inquiry Sweta Rajan-Rankin Introduction This chapter resonates with the main tenet of this edited collection book, seeking to examine first hand what social policy formulations may look like as told from the perspective of the Global South. Mainstream social policy discourses have focused on post-war welfare provision in rich industrialised countries (Baldock et al, 2011). Economic development was identified as a key driver for welfare state emergence in wealthy
hope that, in answering these questions, this chapter proves of interest to students, fellow academics, policy makers and practitioners alike. I draw from my experience of working on geographies of gender and generation in post-industrial, intergenerational and post-colonial settings. I problematise the notion of ‘expertise’ within these spaces of engagement to acknowledge the important role it has played in shaping how I, as a researcher, have encountered other actors, groups and stakeholders. I have written about my social positioning in all of my published work
95 Managing welfare in post-colonial Hong Kong FIVE Managing welfare in post-colonial Hong Kong Chak Kwan Chan Introduction The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Mr Tung Chee Hwa, announced (1997a) several welfare measures that brought new hope for Hong Kong people who had been living under a colonial welfare system for over 150 years. As Tung (1997a, para 12) declared at his first Policy Address, “to promote the well being of the people is the most fundamental task of a responsible government”. In response to the housing
through education, including through its privatization. The chapter begins by explaining the origins of India’s national identity and how the Nehruvian doctrine ( Lall, 2001 ) defined Indian citizens after independence in 1947. It engages with the inclusive nature of this approach, showing how India’s key policies and its Constitution embraced this vision and translated it into the education system. Education was used by the Congress Party to further this vision, to contrast with Pakistan’s two-nation theory, and to build a united post-colonial nation in light of
Western intergovernmental agencies or NGOs employing mainly Westerners. This structure and the outcomes it contributed to can be further seen through the case study of Tanzanian refugee settlements. Refugee self-reliance assistance in post-colonial Tanzania A UN Trust Territory since 1947, Tanzania’s path toward independence occurred mainly through political negotiation 35 and a notably peaceful process led it to become an independent country on 9 December 1961. Julius Nyerere, the charismatic leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), became
V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early twentieth century. Despite being hailed as the ‘very voice of international conscience’, he is now a largely forgotten figure.
This book rehabilitates Sastri and offers a diplomatic biography of his years as India’s roving ambassador in the 1920s. It examines his involvement in key conferences and agreements, as well as his achievements in advocating for racial equality and securing the rights of Indians both at home and abroad. It also illuminates the darker side of being a native diplomat, including the risk of legitimizing the colonial project and the contradictions of being treated as an equal on the world stage while lacking equality at home.
In retrieving the legacy of Sastri, the book shows that liberal internationalism is not the preserve of western powers and actors – where it too often represents imperialism by other means – but a commitment to social progress fought at multiple sites and by many protagonists.
Covering the period from the height of Empire to Brexit and beyond, this book shows how the vote to leave the European Union increased hostilities towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. Concentrating on the education system, it asks whether populist views that there should be a British identity - or a Scottish, Irish or Welsh one - will prevail. Alternatively arguments based on equality, human rights and economic needs may prove more powerful.
It covers events in politics and education that have left most white British people ignorant of the Empire, the often brutal de-colonisation and the arrival of immigrants from post-colonial and European countries. It discusses politics and practices in education, race, religion and migration that have left schools and universities failing to engage with a multiracial and multicultural society.
The definition of data in qualitative research is expanding. This book highlights the value of embodiment as a qualitative research tool and outlines what it means to do embodied research at various points of the research process. It shows how using this non-invasive approach with vulnerable research participants, such as migrant, refugee and asylum seeking women can help service users or research participants to be involved in the co- production of services and in participatory research.
Drawing on both feminist and post-colonial theory, the author uses her own research with migrant women in London, focusing specifically on collage making and digital storytelling, whilst also considering other potential tools for practicing embodied research such as yoga, personal diaries, dance and mindfulness. Situating the concept of ‘embodiment’ on the map of research methodologies, the book combines theoretical groundwork with actual examples of application to think pragmatically about intersectionality through embodiment.
Post-colonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalisation of protest.
The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.
Ten percent of the world’s population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. This book moves beyond the question of whether islands have more, or less, crime than other places, and instead addresses issues of how, and by whom, crime is defined in island settings, which crimes are policed and visible, and who is subject to regulation. These questions are informed by ‘the politics of place and belonging’ and the distinctive social networks and normative structures of island communities.
