Global Transformations and Insecurity
Our research encompasses three themes in particular:
Global Reconfigurations
- Rising powers and actors
- Global policy regimes and global governance
- Local, national and regional responses to global changes
- The political economy of development
- Social Justice, democracy and religion
- Global movements, conflict and alternatives to neoliberal globalisation
Accessing and Regulating Markets
- Labour markets and the regulation of work in the global economy
- Product markets and value chains
- Financial markets in developing countries
- Governance of markets (health, higher education, oil and extractive industries, green economy, aid
Modelling and Measuring Global Change and its Impacts
- Work and employment
- Inequality, vulnerability and insecurity
- Vulnerability, identity and culture
- Policy Impact and the reconceptualisation of policy
Our research in this area
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| Evolution of social norms and their effect on individual decision-making and well-being. Individual entitlements to resources and economic insecurity. |
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| Global emancipatory movements. New labour internationalism. Autonomous social movements and the state in Latin America. The influence of protests, citizen mobilisation and social movements on the political and public policy fields. Democracy and legitimacy. Social and political theory. |
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| Inequality, identity and security, with an empirical focus on Southeast Asia. The political economy of development policy transfer and ‘global policy regimes’. |
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| The governance and politics of migration, labour markets and social policy, especially in Europe. Governance of the European Union and its constitution as a socio-political and economic ‘space'. |
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| Development finance and international financial transfers. Government and non-government development aid, microfinance, cash transfers and climate related funds. Their evolution as part of local, national and global welfare regimes and how they are managed. |
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| Secularism and the relationship between the political and religious spheres, which is being increasingly questioned. The political implications of religious beliefs and practices, especially in terms of equity, democratisation and social justice. |
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| Social policy and the welfare regimes of the Middle East region, with particular emphasis on the Arab and Muslim populations there. Religious welfare practices and the welfare state in OECD and non-OECD countries. |
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| Shifting powers and responsibilities for social and environmental policies and practices between business, governments and civil society organisations. Governance aspects of these and of changing economic structures and employment patterns. |
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| Poor people’s access to and exclusion from financial services and the microfinance interventions which seek to address this. The ways that poor people manage their finances through a range of informal financial mechanisms; the gender relations that surround the management of finance; and the impact of these interventions. |
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| Globalisation of financial markets and the destruction of the society and the environment. |
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| 'Terrorism' | |
| Varieties of migrant integration regimes in EU. The impact of sovereign debt crisis on the political economy and society of Greece. The political economy of insecurity in in semi-periphery (especially Greece and Turkey). Power shifts in the European Union and the erosion of national sovereignty. |
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| Comparative studies of welfare regimes, poverty and social exclusion, and knowledge economies: revisited from standpoint of recent work on social dynamics. | |
| Global transformations, work and social and economic insecurity. Basic income schemes, their design and evaluation. | |
| The relationships between technology and the dead human body. Warfare, organ donation, Christian Right movements, science and technology. | |
| Comparative analysis of the management of death & dying in different countries. |
