News & events
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Het is de economie, suffie!
Deze zin – in het Engels It’s the economy stupid! – was een belangrijke slogan in de campagne waarmee Bill Clinton in 1992 president van Amerika werd. De zin moest duidelijk maken dat investeren in de economie heel belangrijk was met het oog op de groei van de Amerikaanse economie en welvaart. Het illustreert hoe belangrijk het kapitalistische gedachtengoed en het (opkomende) New Public Management waren in die jaren.
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7 04 Welfare future seminar by Ruth Prince: Pressure, precarity and the limits of solidarity
In the next Welfare Future Seminar, Ruth Prince will talk about understanding support systems in Kenya and formal and informal protection networks in her talk 'Pressure, precarity and the limits of solidarity: Navigating relations between formal and informal forms of social protection amidst class closure in Kenya.' This seminar takes place on the 7th of April in Amsterdam.
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4 03 Bureaucratic Feelings by Ed Kiely: upcoming Welfare Futures Seminar
Ed Kiely will present at our upcoming Welfare Futures seminar. On March 4th, they will talk about "Bureaucratic Feelings: Knowledge production, affective regulation and the administration of austerity." In this talk Kiely investigates the role of affect in the planning and delivery of public services.