The Gluttonous State: upcoming Welfare Futures Seminar

Drawing on the Welfare Futures team’s research on changing welfare landscapes in the Netherlands and beyond, De Koning argues that, increasingly, the state is no longer enacted as a distinct entity that governs society and provides services. Instead, as state programs recruit more and more people and initiatives, they produce hybrid forms of welfare governance and provision that are unsettled and unsettling how we understand the very terms of our political lives. She explores the conundrums that attend the gluttonous state and trace how state and society are reimagined and remade in practice.

Practical information

What        Anouk de Koning, “The Gluttonous State: Remaking State and Society in the Netherlands”
When       4 February, 15.30-17.00, followed by drinks
Where      REC B5.12, Common Room Anthropology (Roeterseiland, B-building, 5th floor) 

If you are not able to join in person, you can also follow the talk and discussion via the live stream.

Welfare Futures Seminar Upcoming Events

March 4   Ed Kiely discussing mental health service provision in England under austerity
April 7      Ruth Prince exploring social protection for health costs in Kenya
May 6       TBD
June 6     Anouk de Koning's inaugural lecture as professor of Power, Politics and the State

Welfare Futures seminar series

The Welfare Futures seminar series is hosted by the Prototyping Welfare and Crafting Resilience projects, embedded in the Anthropology department of the University of Amsterdam. With talks every 4 weeks, it seeks to create a lively space for debate and bring together an interdisciplinary ethnographic community engaged in thinking about transforming welfare landscapes in Europe and beyond.

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