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INTERSECTORALITY IN SOCIAL POLICIES: BETWEEN THE FRAGMENTATION OF RESPONSES AND THE TOTALITY OF SOCIAL NEEDS

This theoretical essay, based on a bibliographic review, analyzes intersectorality in social policies through the tension between the particular way in which the State organizes its responses and the totality of individuals’ social needs. The discussion is grounded in historical-dialectical materialism and draws on the...

Karina Caputti Vidal, Cintia Bernardes Penha · Revista de Estudos Interdisc... · 0 citations

Book Open access 2013

Appendix: A note on methods

How are multi-culture, inequality and belonging understood in the day-to-day thinking and practices of local government? Examining original empirical data, this book explores how local government officers and politicians negotiate ’difficult subjects’ linked with community cohesion policy: diversity, inequality, discri...

Hannah Jones · Policy Press eBooks · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

The Topographies of Social Love: Space, Culture and the Dilemmas of Nativist Movements

This article explores social love as a collective and transformative practice. It examines how both physical and ideological spaces serve as contexts where relationships of belonging, care, and responsibility are enacted and contested. It argues that space and place are crucial to understanding social love because they...

William Calvo-Quiros, Ana Inés Frere Affanni · The social science · 0 citations

Sep 2026

Action Reimagined: Literary Representations of Activism in the Context of the Crisis of the Present

Abstract Recent years have witnessed a waning trust in institutions and radical challenges to democratic governance even in resilient democracies, leading to increasing concerns about democratic backsliding and an overall crisis of democracy. The emerging technoliberal rationality, with its neoreactionary tendencies, h...

Raili Marling · Polemos · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Power, Social Order and Inequality: A Comparative Study of Durkheim and Marx and Their Implications for Political Thought

Based on the theories of Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, a sociological comparison of these two theories is presented, specifically looking into the theories of power, social order and inequality of both. The study uses a qualitative interpretive analysis of primary and secondary sources to explore how the two thinkers,...

Anita Rai · International Journal For Mu... · 0 citations

Open access Oct 2026

Unmasking the Care Fetish: Institutionalisation, Internalisation, and the Punitive Dimensions of Motherhood from the Social Reproduction Perspective

This special issue grew out of the interdisciplinary conversations started at the conference “Thinking Through Motherhood: Images, Experiences and Narratives Across Time”, held at Vilnius University in January 2024. Organised by the MotherNet project – an EU-funded research network – the conference focused on how mothe...

Ieva Bisigirskaitė, Maja Bodin · Socialinė teorija empirija p... · 0 citations