Shifting Solidarities

Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations have penetrated the heart of European societies, disrupting markets and labour relations, transforming social practices, and affecting the moral infrastructure of European welfare states. Factors such as the economic crisis, migration, digitalisation, and climate change all contribute to a sense of emergency. This volume considers how, in times of crisis, there are calls for solidarity by various new social and political actors and movements.

The contributions present a broad array of empirical work and critical scholarship, zooming in on shifting solidarities in various domains of social life, including work, social policy, health care, religion, family, gender and migration. This compelling volume provides a unique resource for understanding solidarity in contemporary Europe, and will be a vital text for students and scholars across sociology, social policy, cultural studies, employment/labour markets and organisation studies, migration studies and European studies.

Empirically studies contemporary sources, forms and articulations of solidarities and how they evolve in different domains of social life in contemporary European societies Analyses the social consequences of shifting solidarities in European societies Investigates the subjects, relations, resistances and agencies within these 'shifting solidarities' as well as those that are occluded and marginalized

Autorentext

Ine Van Hoyweghen ****is Professor at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Valeria Pulignano is Full Professor in Sociology at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Gert Meyers is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Klappentext

Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations have penetrated the heart of European societies, disrupting markets and labour relations, transforming social practices, and affecting the moral infrastructure of European welfare states. Factors such as the economic crisis, migration, digitalisation, and climate change all contribute to a sense of emergency. This volume considers how, in times of crisis, there are calls for solidarity by various new social and political actors and movements. The contributions present a broad array of empirical work and critical scholarship, zooming in on shifting solidarities in various domains of social life, including work, social policy, health care, religion, family, gender and migration. This compelling volume provides a unique resource for understanding solidarity in contemporary Europe, and will be a vital text for students and scholars across sociology, social policy, cultural studies, employment/labour markets and organisation studies, migration studies and European studies.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Shifting Solidarities in European Societies; Ine Van Hoyweghen, Gert Meyers & Valeria Pugliano.- Part 1. Welfare, Labour and Migration.- 2. Working on Soldarity; Colin Crouch.- 3. Solidarity 'at Work' in Times of Change; Glenn Morgan & Valeria Pugliano.- 4. Social Europe: A New Integration-Demarcation Conflict?; Bart Meuleman, Sharon Baute & Koen Abts.- 5. Economic Fluctuation and Shifts in Popular Solidarity with Unemployed People; Wilfred Uunk & Wim Van Oorschot.- Part 2. Biomedicine, Healthcare and Technology.- 6. Individualising Solidarities; Liz McFall.- 7. Shifting Solidarities: Personalisation in Insurance and Medicine; Barbara Prainsack & Ine Van Hoyweghen.- 8. Automating the Welfare State: Consequences and Challenges for the Organisation of Solidarity; Wim Van Lancker.- 9. Shifting Organisational Solidarity in Health and Social Care Ecosystems; Ezra Dessers & Sam Pless.- Part 3. Family, Religion, Gender and Culture.- 10. Enacting Solidarity; Rudi Laermans.- 11. Shifts in Integenerational Solidarity: Eldercare in the Turkish Community of a Belgian City; Veerle Draulans & Wouter De Tavernier.- 12. Religion and Solidarity: The Vicissitudes of Protestantism; Dick Houtman, Anneke Pons & Rudi Laermans.- 13. World Population Explosion, Migration and Solidarity in Europe; Jan Van Bavel.