Nettsider med emneord «welfare service»

In public debates on welfare services, the question of how much money should be invested often take center stage. Voices from various political perspectives are in focus, but those who are the recipients of services are rarely heard. This includes children who go to kindergarten and school. The EMER network, which conducts research on resistance in the context of welfare provision, aims to change that.

EMER Network explore everyday resistance in the welfare state. 

Welfare services are intended to provide care, aid, and support to individuals in need. However, and in spite of well-meaning intentions, support is sometimes experienced as patronizing, misplaced, or an abuse of power. In the current era of New Public Management (NPM), service users are seen as customers and the demands for measurable outcomes rise. Now more than ever, we need to understand the problematic sides of power relations that operate within the welfare state. That's why the EMER network – Explorations of Marginalised people’s Everyday Resistance – was started.

EMER NETWORK – WORKSHOP 1 IN KARLSTAD 2022

The purpose of the workshop is to explore how everyday resistances in the Nordic welfare state can be investigated using institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry.