18 research outputs found
Part 2: Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Organisations
Four authors analyse Sue's impact on the discipline of anthropology and on the postgraduates she supervised. They highlight in particular her contributions as a teacher and her advocacy of what she terms ‘political reflexivity’
Towards a new conditionality of welfare?:Reconsidering solidarity in the Danish welfare state
Class, Social suffering and Health Consumerism
In recent years an extensive social gradient in cancer outcome has attracted much attention, with
late diagnosis proposed as one important reason for this. Whereas earlier research has investigated
health care seeking among cancer patients, these social differences may be better understood by
looking at health care seeking practices among people who are not diagnosed with cancer. Drawing
on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among two different social classes in Denmark, our aim in this
article is to explore the relevance of class to health care seeking practices and illness concerns. In
the higher middle class, we predominantly encountered health care seeking resembling notions of
health consumerism, practices sanctioned and encouraged by the health care system. However
among people in the lower social class, health care seeking was often shaped by the inseparability
of physical, political, and social dimensions of discomfort, making these practices difficult for the
health care system to accommodate
Challenging care work: General practitioners’ perspectives on caring for young adults with complex psychosocial problems
The Danish Welfare State and Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crisis
This chapter investigates transnational solidarity action across the fields of unemployment, disability and immigration in Denmark. It discusses how solidarity is manifested and organised by civil society, focusing on 30 qualitative interviews conducted with the so-called transnational solidarity organisations (TSOs). The chapter explores solidarity challenges that Danish TSOs were facing in the context of the welfare retrenchment and the structural reform in 2007, as well as the 2008 financial crisis and the migration crisis of 2015. Our interviews confirm that the effects of the financial crisis, austerity measures and the migration crisis were not easy to separate from the welfare retrenchment in the Danish system. These recent changes to the welfare state have been experienced as dramatic as they have loosened the traditionally close ties between the Danish civil society and municipalities in providing welfare services. The voluntary sector has, in response, become more political, not only providing services to affected groups but also increasingly seeking to defend their social rights, as well as entering into conflict with the government